Your three all-time favourite players? (1st summary on 1st page)

[Lanny'sDaMan]

#1. Duh....
#2. Burnaby Joe
#3 Iggy

[JohnnyB]

1. Iginla
2. Crosby
3. Fleury

[Huntingwhale]

1. Nik Lidstrom
2. Jarome Iginla
3. Patrick Roy

[FireItUp]

1. Fleury
2. Gaudreau
3. Jagr

[John Doe]

1. Gilbert Perreault - was the first player I liked after immigrating to Canada as a kid. He was soooo fast and exciting to watch.
2. Joe Mullen - I liked his story. He was small (like me), learned to skate later on in life (again like me),wasn't afraid to go to the more "difficult areas" of the ice (like me) and was a very skilled player (we couldn't have differed more). He was a big factor in me becoming a Flames fan.
3. Orest Kindrachuk - this one is a bit odd. He was a smaller, defensive minded center that played between Dave Shultz and Don Saleski. He never fought a lot like his linemates; he just went out and played responsible hockey. I just seemed to relate to his size and style of play.

[Yamer]

Yeah, I reject the no goalies criteria, sorry. You can claim that it's just as hard to compare defensemen to forwards, centers to wingers, etc. A player is a player.

1. Miikka Kiprusoff - agile as a cat, cold as ice. Jarome was a crucial part of that run in 2004, but without Miikka Kiprusoff that team wades in mediocrity for who knows how long, doesn't make the playoffs, and we never have the magic of 04. IMO he was the greatest player in Calgary Flames history. In his prime he was an all-time elite goaltender in that he made bottom 10 teams look like contenders.

2. Theoren Fleury - I don't really care about his off-ice antics, but I empathize with his off-ice tragedies. This guy overcame tremendous physical limitations and mental harms to be one the most talented, in-your-face scorers in an era where the passion and thrill of the game was gone. My childhood hockey role model.

3. Jarome Iginla - a hockey player's hockey player. Tough and skilled, pure elite goal scorer, and was the ultimate role model and community member off the ice. A leader in and out of the dressing room, Iginla is the modern face of the franchise. Holds numerous Flames records, and helped carry a near-Cinderella team on his back in 2004. There is just far too much to like about Iginla to not have him top 3. He won the Hart Trophy and was also named one of the top 100 players in the NHL...wait.

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

1. Iginla
2. McDonald - didn't expect him to make my list, but when I think back to my childhood, he is definitely the most identifiable memory and player for me.
3. T. Hunter

If goalies were allowed, VV would have made my list.

[arm chair critic]

First post.....

Gilbert Perreault
Lanny
Sid

[CalgaryFan1988]

1. Fleury
2. Iginla
3. Mats Naslund

[Enoch Root]

1) Bobby Orr
2) Daryl Sittler
3) Butch Goring

[powderjunkie]

1. Lemieux
2. Sakic
3. Datsyuk

First two names came easy...a whole bunch of guys could have fit the bill for #3 though

[Dime_On_Flames]

Nieuwendyk
Forsberg
Sakic

Really hard to do 3. Hate that I had to leave Lemieux and Fedorov off there.

[SeanCharles]

1) Iginla: As Flames fans we all love one of the Flames greats. I missed out on the glory years so Iggy was my favourite player for a lot of years and he was one of the best in the game for a period of time. Once Sutter got here in 2003 I knew this team was about to turn the corner and have watched almost every Flames game since. Iggy defined this Flames era.
2) Sakic: When the Flames struggled in the young guns era I still wanted a team to cheer for come playoff time while growing up. Colorado was this team. I loved watching the battles between Detriot and Dallas for Western Conference supremacy. Joe was my favourite player on a long list of greats that played for the Av's back then.
3) Jagr: I had a tough time deciding on this one but I went with the great 68. I actually hated him growing up cause of his hair and JOFA helmet but as I've grown up and matured (and so has he) I've come to love him as a player and the fact he is just himself and doesn't care what anyone thinks. I hope he somehow plays long enough to get into second place in all-time goals cause if he never left he would easily already have gotten there.

I didn't pick any young guys from the current Flames because I think most of them still have room for growth but many of my honourable mentions would be current Flames.

GFG!

[Nammer403]

Iginla, Gaudreau, Ovechkin

[doctajones428]

Iggy
Lidstrom
Toews

[JonDuke]

Fedorov
Iginla
Gretzky

[savardandjokinen]

Gaudreau
Phaneuf
Baertschi
Wasn't alive for the good old days and too young to remember 04

[drewtastic]

1) Joel Otto
2) Craig Conroy
3) Carey Wilson

[Heavy Jack]

That said..... Baertschi?

[Young_Guns]

1. Wayne Gretzky/Mario Lemieux
2. Joe Sakic/Jaromir Jagr
3. Jarome Iginla/Steve Yzerman

I know it said 3, but it was tough..