MacInnis wasn't just the points and the TOI. He was the engine that drove that team. He was so calm on the breakouts, he was a general in the offensive zone. By 1989, he was as good as anyone in his own zone. When he was traded to the Blues, I knew the Flames' chances of winning a Cup were pretty much done. Losing Loob, Gilmour and Mullen among others hurt but nothing was so definitive of the end of that era of Flames hockey as the trading of MacInnis.
At least that's the way I saw it.
He was absolutely robbed of that Norris in 1991. But those writers out east loved them some Raymond Bourque.
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