05-03-2023, 04:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Flames fan in Seattle
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Favorite flames players since the cup
Lot of conversation about how unlikeable our group was this year.. Got me thinking, I've always had a player I've been super excited about on the Flames EXCEPT for this year... I super hope that changes next year.
Here are the players I loved to follow in the last 34 years:
1989-1999 = Fleury
1999-2000 = Iggy / Brathwaite
2000 - 2013 = Iggy
2013 = Monahan
2014 - 2022 = Johnny
2022-2023 = no one? Duehr? Wolf?
That's how sad this last year was for me, nobody I was really pumped to cheer for.. Curious about other people's lists..
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05-03-2023, 04:33 PM
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#2
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Franchise Player
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I kinda really like Duehr, as I saw him go from AAAA player (or so I thought) to real NHLer. And he never seemed to take a shift off. Of course, if he did, he might never get another one.
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05-03-2023, 04:36 PM
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#3
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Franchise Player
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Not enough Kipper.
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05-03-2023, 04:37 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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NIEWY
IGGY
MONAHAN
BENNETT
LINDHOLM
KYLINGTON
Those are/were my favorite players.
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05-03-2023, 04:40 PM
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#5
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Franchise Player
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and Zadarov is my favourite Flame player right now after the dweeb left.
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05-03-2023, 04:44 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: NC
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Short list for me, Iggy and Kipper for the longest time were my favorites.
Gaudreau was also one I looked up to because as a short guy myself, I felt like he was the one that really opened the league up to more skill players that are under 5’10.
Bennett was a huge favorite of mine and now that he’s gone I still haven’t latched onto another yet.
Weegar is getting there though.
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05-03-2023, 04:45 PM
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#7
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Calgary
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Mine are:
Roberts,
Fleury,
Iginla,
Bennett
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05-03-2023, 04:49 PM
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#8
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Fleury
Iginla
Monahan
Gaudreau
Bennett
Tkachuk
Next up, Wolf
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05-03-2023, 04:53 PM
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#9
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First Line Centre
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Tabaracci, Braithwaite, Kipper, Regehr, Giordano, Tkachuk, Ferland.
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05-03-2023, 04:56 PM
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GOAT!
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My favourites, in chronological order (from as early as I can remember having a favourite):
Lemelin -> Vernon -> Fleury -> Iginla -> Monahan -> Tkachuk
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05-03-2023, 05:02 PM
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Franchise Player
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Mine was Tkachuk until he ######d the team. Probably Andersson now
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05-03-2023, 05:03 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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1. Vesa Viitakoski
2. Robert Dome
3. Krysztof Oliwa
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05-03-2023, 05:09 PM
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Franchise Player
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it was an awful season for the team and the organization, no question. But the suggestion that there are no likeable players on the team is pretty ridiculous.
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05-03-2023, 05:09 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Chronological, and in kind of generations: Nilsson, Macinnis, Newy, Fleury (bah), Iginla, Gio, Rasmus.
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05-03-2023, 05:13 PM
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Franchise Player
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Was too young to really enjoy the Flames before the late 90s.
So it was briefly Fleury, but for me Iggy defined Hockey. Iggy was everything to me.
After him, it was Monahan.
Now, it's nobody really. Maybe Zads.
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05-03-2023, 05:14 PM
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#16
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
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Iggy, Kipper, Rasmus, Weegar
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05-03-2023, 05:25 PM
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Franchise Player
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A few names come to mind:
Robyn Regehr
Sergei Makarov
Ronnie Stern
German Titov
And I had an odd soft spot for Nylander.
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05-03-2023, 05:41 PM
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#18
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: So Long, Bannatyne
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John Tonelli
Carey Wilson
Joel Otto (GOAT!)
German Titov
Freddie! Freddie! Freddie!
…And after that I was in my mid-20s and didn’t really have “favourites” so much anymore…
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05-03-2023, 05:42 PM
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Franchise Player
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Kiprusoff
Iginla
Phaneuf (well, the first couple of years)
Monahan
Gaudreau
Giordano
A few on the "second tier" as well -- Brodie, Ferland, Tkachuk
On the current roster I'd say Andersson and Markstrom (sigh), although I'm pretty excited about Wolf.
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05-03-2023, 05:44 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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89-95 Nieuwendyk
95-96- Nobody really
96-13 Iginla with a shoutout to Braithwaite and McCarthy who I loved as well during that time
13-22 Monahan
22-23 not a single player really comes close
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