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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
Still better than that Flames group. Pronger played 31 mins a game! Insane. Also we need a statue of Pronger's wife in Calgary. Statues for everyone!
Scoring Goals Assists Ice Time
Rk Player Age Pos GP G A PTS
1 Chris Pronger* 31 D 24 5 16 21
2 Shawn Horcoff 27 LW 24 7 12 19
3 Fernando Pisani 29 C 24 14 4 18
4 Ales Hemsky 22 RW 24 6 11 17
5 Ryan Smyth 29 LW 24 7 9 16
6 Sergei Samsonov 27 LW 24 4 11
7 Jaroslav Spacek 31 D 24 3 11 14
8 Michael Peca 31 C 24 6 5 11
9 Raffi Torres 24 LW 22 4 7 11
10 Jarret Stoll 23 C 24 4 6 10
11 Steve Staios 32 D 24 1 5 6
12 Jason Smith 32 D 24 1 4 5
13 Rem Murray 33 C 24 0 4 4
14 Marc-Andre Bergeron 25 D 18 2 1 3
15 Ethan Moreau 30 LW 21 2 1 3
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I think some of us don’t realize how good the ‘04 Flames were. While it’s true they didn’t have great scoring other than Iginla (who was, at that time,considered by many to be the best player in the world), the young defense was greatly under-rated and I would suggest that as a group, they were better than our present team’s defense personnel; the forwards were fast and were terrific at winning board battles, forecheck and cycling. And they had Kipper.
Before the playoffs there were comments that other teams didn’t want to be matched against the Flames. On the way to the finals they faced the top-seeded team in every series, beating the 3 top teams in the their conference, and came within a game or a disputed goal of beating the President’s Trophy winner. The Oilers, on the other hand, had the benefit of seeing all the top seeds eliminated in the first round. Their appearance in the final was much more of a fluke than the Flames’.