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

[mennoknight]

Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.

Top 10:

Sergei Makarov
Theo Fleury
Miikka Kiprusoff
Hakan Loob
Reggie Lemelin
Bob Johnson
Robin Regehr
Alex Tanguay
Doug Gilmour
Lanny McDonald

HM: Joel Otto and Roman Hamrlik

Bottom 10:

Dennis Wideman
Rene Bourque
Troy Brouwer
Chris Drury
Don Edwards
Jarome Iginla
Blake Comeau
Mike Smith
Ian White
Michel Petit

degree friggin revoked

[mile]

Iginla is in your top 10 most disliked players, but Neal isn't?

[gvitaly]

I only started following the Flames in 2005-06 so here goes:
Favorite
————
1. Kiprusoff
2. Huselius
3. Iginla
4. Coach Sutter
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5. Hudler
6. Giordano
7. Gaudreau
8. Coach Hartley
9. Mangiapane
10. Jagr

Least Favorite
1. James Neal
2. Coach Gulutzan
————
3. Anders Eriksson
4. Chris Butler
5. Sven Baertchi
6. Adam Fox
7. Tim Erixon
8. Brian Elliot
9. Mark Jankowski
10. Troy Brouwer

[Eric Vail]

In no particular order...

Favourites:

1. Lanny McDonald
2. Jarome Iginla
3. Bobby MacMillan
4. Rejean Lemelin
5. Craig Conroy
6. Robyn Regehr
7. Tim Hunter
8. Joey Mullen
9. Gary Roberts
10. Mark Giordano

Disliked

1. Todd Bertuzzi
2. Marchmant
3. Duane Hay
4. Mark Jankowski
5. Dan Bouchard
6. Gary Leeman
7. Grant Fuhr
8. Marc Savard
9. Ales Kotalik
10. Mike Smith

I stuck to players on both lists. If I were to add a couple names for coaches/GMs:

Fav:
1. Cliff Fletcher
2. Darryl Sutter
3. Bob Johnson
4. Al MacNeil

Disliked:
1. Doug Risebrough (though he was a great player)
2. Don Hay
3. Gulutzan
4. Ward
5. Gilbert

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

Sorry I mean to have him in your top 10 disliked players is a red flag.

Yeah I guess I wasn't specific. He wouldn't be in my disliked players but maybe top 10 of my liked but not top 5.

[Monahammer]

Having Iginla in your top 10 most disliked flames is definitely a sin, but still it was, IMO, not the most outrageous post in this thread (even if I suspected the answers).

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I don't know if Iginla would be in my top 5. Maybe top 10. First half of his career he was top 5 for me but the last half of his career not so much as he became a hard to coach, one dimensional player focussed on scoring only.

Honest question, did some coaches came out and day that Iginla is hard to coach?

[N-E-B]

Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.

Top 10:

Sergei Makarov
Theo Fleury
Miikka Kiprusoff
Hakan Loob
Reggie Lemelin
Bob Johnson
Robin Regehr
Alex Tanguay
Doug Gilmour
Lanny McDonald

HM: Joel Otto and Roman Hamrlik

Bottom 10:

Dennis Wideman
Rene Bourque
Troy Brouwer
Chris Drury
Don Edwards
Jarome Iginla
Blake Comeau
Mike Smith
Ian White
Michel Petit

Iginla bottom 10? Did you get your PhD from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College?

[Strange Brew]

Enjoying some of these lists, reminding me how much I liked certain players that didn't make my list

The goales (Reggie, Tabbycat and Freddy)
The D (Regehr, Suter, Hamrlik)
Forwards (Otto, MacMillan, Plett, Fotiu)

I should have included Bob Johnson as well but drawing the line at executives so no Fletcher.

[Jiggy_12]

Favorites:

1. Iginla
2. Phaneuf (the first 3 years version)
3. Kiprusoff
4. Regehr
5. Huselius
6. Backlund
7. Giordano
8. Conroy
9. Savard
10. Gelinas


Least favorite:

1. Comeau
2. Drury
3. Neal
4. Smith
5. Elliot
6. Erickson
7. Zyuzin
8. Butler
9. Kotalik
10. Brouwer

[SuperMatt18]

Will classify this by saying I was born in 1988 - so the list will be skewed by that.

Top 10 (In no particular order):

Matthew Lombardi (My CP Handle)
Al MacInnis
Freddie Brathwaite
Dion Phaneuf
Andrew Mangiapane
Jarome Iginla
Craig Conroy
Mikael Backlund
Mike Cammalleri
Sean Monahan

HM: Gaudreau (probably will be top 10 once the sour taste clears)

Most Hated:

Gary Suter (nothing to do with him as Flames player but will forever hate him for his cheap shot on Kariya before the Nagano Olympics)
Brian Elliott (worse playoff performance ever)
Jason Weimer
Greg Gilbert (I know he’s a coach but I don’t care)
Phil Housley (irrational but as a kid I was always mad we traded MacInnis for him)
Jeff Friesen
Anders Eriksson
Andrei Zyuzyn
Derek Morris
Rob Niedermayer

[TheScorpion]

I've got a new one to add to the "least favourite" category:

Brett Ritchie

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I've got a new one to add to the "least favourite" category:

Brett Ritchie

This generations David Jones.

To QUOTE Office Space about theses players:
."what exactly is it that uh...you say you do here?"

[TheScorpion]

David Jones had 30 points in a single season with the Flames! Brett Ritchie had, what, four??

[djsFlames]

I felt like Ritchie actually showed heart in the POs, unlike some.

Is it his fault Darryl liked him?

I'll never understand touching your 4th line when you're trying to tie a contest and D was guilty of that. Edmonton plays McDavid too much but double shifting him late in games sure isn't hurting you chances.

[dammage79]

Sorry, just to had to get a Jones jab in. I was....Jonesing for chance.

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

I felt like Ritchie actually showed heart in the POs, unlike some.

Is it his fault Darryl liked him?

Yes. Yes it is.

/s

[FlamesAddiction]

I'm probably too hard on David Jones. Not his fault Feaster was a terrible GM. Looking at other lists people posted, there are players I forgot about that I could put on instead of him.

[JohnnyB]

Iggy
Johnny
Fleury
Leopold
Kipper
Huselius
Dion
Brodie
McCarthy
Yelle

Bertuzzi
Shantz
Fuhr
Steve Smith
Marchment
Brouwer
Friesen
Dingman

It's much harder to pick out ones I don't like, but probably at least 50% of the players on the young guns teams deserve to be on there just for how awful memories of those years are.

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

I legit don't think you can be a Flames fan if you have Iginla in your 10 most disliked players list. Neutral, okay. You can even dislike him. But in your top 10? Nah.

I went very sour on Iggy during the Brent Sutter years when he basically admitted he has no interest in listening to the coach. So he kept button-hooking along the boards because he knew better.

Sorry.