Who are your ten favourite (and least favourite) Flames ever?

[kermitology]

Top:

1. Regehr
2. Conroy
3. Iginla
4. McAmmond
5. MacInnis

Bottom:
1. Smith
2. Elliott
3. Bertuzzi
4. Neal
5. Brouwer

Smith is my all time most hated Flames alumni. He's such a hot shot individual over the team guy, but he's not even that good. His puck handling misplay in the Iginla jersey retirement was the ultimate sin in my mind. It was a game about the team, and about the best player to ever wear the jersey and he ####ing had to try and steal the show. Such a piece of garbage guy. #### him.

[TheScorpion]

I just want to know how anyone could possibly hate David Jones.

[BlindMilwaukee]

Top 10:

Iginla, Regehr, Kipper, Lombardi, Yelle, Oliwa, Gio, Tkachuk, Lindholm and maybe Zad?

[midniteowl]

Favorite (not in any particular order

Roberts
Iginla
Vernon
Kipper
Otto
Fleury
Regher
Savard
Bennett
Monahan

Dislike

Wideman
Leeman
Elliott
Smith
Drury
Reichel
Eriksson
Rob Neidermeyer
Butler
Gilmour

Hate


Neal
Brouwer
Drury
Reichel
Kidd
Gilbert
Gulutzan

[Madrox]

Loob
Mullen
Otto
Roberts
Iginla
Kipper
Yelle
Giordano
Regehr
Braithwaite

Hm McGrattan

[Canada 02]

Favorite
1. Iginla
2. Nieuwendyk
3. Kiprusoff
4. Gaudreau
5. Tkachuk
6. Phaneuf
7. MacInnis
8. Loob
9. Regehr
10. Giordano

Hate
1. Grant Fuhr
2. Mike Smith
3. Gary Leeman
4. James Neal
5. Carey Wilson

[mile]

Favourites:
Kiprusoff
Iginla
Sutter
Lindholm
Backlund
Conroy

Like:
Tanev
Regehr
Langkow
Monahan
Phaneuf
Bouwmeester
Cammalleri
Gelinas
Nieminen
Yelle
Stone
McGrattan
Stajan
Lucic

Least Favourite:
Neal
Mike Smith
Eriksson
Grossmann
O'Brien
Friesen
Wiemer
Jankowski
Hamonic

[Ford Prefect]

I’m no particular order…

Faves
Lanny
Iggy
Gio
Kipper
Gaudreau
McCrimmon
Roberts
Chopper
Backlund
Weegar (the moment he plays a game in Flames uniform)
HM…Andersson, Tanev, Engelland, the Irish God of War, Yelle

Least fave
Kotalik
Zyuzin
Tkachuk
Eloranta
Risebrough
Leeman
Smith
Neal
Wiemer
Marchment

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I just want to know how anyone could possibly hate David Jones.

He was very disappointing and was making too much. And we traded Tanguay and Sarchy for him and O'Brien.

Nothing personal. He could be the nicest guy in the world, but he was expensive and not very good.

What did you like about him? I can't recall him really doing anything to stand out.

[dammage79]

Favorites:
Niewendyuk
Monahan
V.Bure
Kipprusoff
Tabbaracci
MacInnis
Regher
Lindholm
Iginla
Yelle
Lundmark
Owen Nolan

Least favorite:
Neal
Fuhr
Marchment
Kidd
Hamonic

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

He was very disappointing and was making too much. And we traded Tanguay and Sarchy for him and O'Brien.

Nothing personal. He could be the nicest guy in the world, but he was expensive and not very good.

What did you like about him? I can't recall him really doing anything to stand out.

He was a exciting as watching beige paint dry on a brick wall in the desert.

[cam_wmh]

Most
Iginla
Roberts
Otto
Loob
Conroy
Vernon
Kiprusoff
McCrimmon
Commodore
Giordano


Least
Murzyn
Neal
Smith
Kidd
Leeman
Brouwer
Bure
Fata
Oliwa
Dadswell

[Calgary4LIfe]

Favourites:
MacInnis
Roberts
Nieuwendyk
Lanny
Loob
Makarov
Hunter
Iginla
Kiprusoff
Regehr

I want to say Gaudreau here too. I don't like how this ended, but for the time that he was here, he made watching Calgary Flames games more enjoyable as he was incredibly entertaining.

Least liked:
Marchment (RIP) - dirty player
Drury - didn't want to be here
Riseborough (I definitely liked him as a player, so not sure this counts)
Gauthier - dirty player
Shantz - I really don't know, but he always annoyed me
Dingman - useless all the time, even as a face-puncher
Fleury - himself first over the team
Niedermayer - traded too much for him
LeClerc - thought he was better than he really was, and punchable face
Mark Hunter - dirty player

Players like Hulse - they just weren't good. Not their fault they kept getting played. I thought they gave an honest effort, but were just over their heads. If this was a 'top 10 worst players in Flames' history", then this is where I would add him.

Gary Leeman I understand, but he fluked to a 50 goal season one year, and Riseborough got caught stat-watching. I think Leeman was a deer caught in headlights coming to Calgary. He was at the start of his decline already in Toronto by the looks of it, but he was destined to fail here with that amount of vitriol and pressure. I always felt sorry for him more than anything. Olcyk made him a star from what I vaguely remember as a kid, and Riseborough paid for him as if Leeman was the star in his prime, rather than the one giving up the star.

[Sainters7]

Favourite:

1. Joe Nieuwendyk
2. Doug Gilmour
3. Gary Roberts
4. Jarome Iginla
5. Al MacInnis
6. Johnny Gaudreau
7. Matthew Tkachuk
8. Trevor Kidd (I was a kid/goalie then & I love goalie gear aesthetics, deal with it)
9. Mike Cammalleri
10. Denis Gauthier (loved when he destroyed ppl)

Least:

1. Lance Bouma (you know why...yes I believe it)
2. Chris Dingman (worst Flame evers)
3. Lanny McDonald (there's a story there ha-ha)
4. James Neal
5. Johnny Gaudreau c. July 2022

EDIT: I had a tough time with the Least Fav list, hence why it's only 5 and mostly recent. I love to love..

[Sofa GM]

There is a lot of Jason Wiemer dislike here holy… I thought he played a great type of game. Guy is still in the community, he’s a beauty.

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

He was very disappointing and was making too much. And we traded Tanguay and Sarchy for him and O'Brien.

Nothing personal. He could be the nicest guy in the world, but he was expensive and not very good.

What did you like about him? I can't recall him really doing anything to stand out.

Haha. Very valid reasons on your part.

I was a sullen teenager when they acquired him and I bought his jersey because nobody else had it and I wanted to be different, and then I proceeded to turn being a David Jones fan into my obnoxious personality for around a year. I have thankfully grown out of that phase, and now I merely have a fond nostalgia for the days he ran around in the playoffs wreaking havoc with Ferland and Stajan.

He was much better in 2014–15 than you remember. I maintain that. But the rest of the time, he was big, very injury-prone, and not much else — not really what you want from somebody making $4 million a year.

It's funny ... if the Flames acquired someone like David Jones today, I probably wouldn't like him much at all. Certainly not if they traded Alex Tanguay for him. But at the time, I just thought he was a lot of fun ... and, for some reason, I made a point of defending him to an excessive extent.

[calgarywinning]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Haha. Very valid reasons on your part.

I was a sullen teenager when they acquired him and I bought his jersey because nobody else had it and I wanted to be different, and then I proceeded to turn being a David Jones fan into my obnoxious personality for around a year. I have thankfully grown out of that phase, and now I merely have a fond nostalgia for the days he ran around in the playoffs wreaking havoc with Ferland and Stajan.

He was much better in 2014–15 than you remember. I maintain that. But the rest of the time, he was big, very injury-prone, and not much else — not really what you want from somebody making $4 million a year.

It's funny ... if the Flames acquired someone like David Jones today, I probably wouldn't like him much at all. Certainly not if they traded Alex Tanguay for him. But at the time, I just thought he was a lot of fun ... and, for some reason, I made a point of defending him to an excessive extent.

It was honestly so innocent and sweet on your behalf. Lol. D. Jones was just not good at all.

I specifically remember this phase and it was oddly funny and endearing.

[bax]

In no particular order

Iginla
Kipper
Gaudreau
Tkachuk
Brathwaite
Regehr
Bure
Jagr
Gelinas
McGrattan

Funny enough the only jersey I have ever bought is Lucic. Love him too.

[Sofa GM]

Favs
1. Jarome Iginla
2. Joe Nieuwnedyk
3. Gary Roberts
4. Brad McCrimmon
5. Joe Mullen

Least Favs
1. James Neal
2. Dana Murzyn
3. Ales Kotalik
4. Mike Smith
5. Kari Eloranta

[calgarywinning]

Iginla
Kippersoff
Lanny
Al Macinnis
Gary Roberts
Johnny Gaudreau
Theoren Fleury
Willi Plett (my grandfather coached him at one point)
Robyn Regehr
Gelinas

James Neal
Troy Brouwer
Theoron Fleury (lol)
Tabaracci (what a jerk)
Phaneuf
Commodore
Curtis Glencross

Eek. that's all I got. I think honourable mention for likes is Willy Juicin, Ed Whalen and Maher and also Ken King for always being so goddamn cool.