Covid Jersey Vote - Best #27 Flames History

[Bingo]

#1 - Turek (Riggin)
#2 - MacInnis (Commodore)
#3 - Phaneuf (Musil)
#4 - McCrimmon (Bouwmeester)
#5 - Giordano (Albelin)
#6 - Housley (Sarich)
#7 - Mullen (Brodie)
#8 - Risebrough (Bure)
#9 - McDonald (no vote)
#10 - Roberts (McGrattan)
#11 - Backlund (Yelle)
#12 - Iginla (Loob)
#13 - Gaudreau (Cammalleri)
#14 - Fleury (Nilsson)
#15 - McCarthy (Simon)
#16 - Chouinard (Stillman)
#17 - Hrdina (Bourque)
#18 - Stajan (Lombardi)
#19 - Tkachuk (Hunter)
#20 - Suter (Huselius)
#21 - Ference (Jokinen)
#22 - Conroy (Langkow)
#23 - Monahan (Reinhart)
#24 - Peplinski (Hudler)
#25 - Nieuwendyk (Plett)
#26 - Reichel (Nilson) - Ranheim shouldn't have been in this

[CMPunk]

Todd Simpson, seeing as how there's no poll yet

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Bingo

#13 - Gaudreau (Titov/Cammalleri)


#26 - Reichel (Nilson) - Ranheim shouldn't have been in this

Titov has lost out- for now
good decision on 26

[Bingo]

Vail was a better Atlanta Flame.

Beers, McLellan and Tonelli were all solid contributing wingers ... would give the edge to Tonelli in this group.

Savard was a great hockey player, but less so in Calgary silks ... still three solid seasons.

Comes down to Tonelli for his playoff contributions, Savard for his production and Dougie Hamilton for his top pairing role.

Had to go Hamilton.

[looooob]

27 is a really tricky number


my gut going into this was Tonelli versus Hamilton, may need to add Beers to this discussion


Savard- yes Button and Gilbert blew it but he was a dork here too. no
Vail- I am willing to give Atlanta history some consieration but more in a tiebreak type situation. only one real season in Calgary so no
MacLellan- cup names always deserve a review but don't think his tenure was worthy




Tonelli- very famous acquistion (along with Mullen) led fans to believe we really have a team on our hands. Had a good playoff run then only here for 2 years, the latter of which was a bit of a disappointment before he rebounded in LA


Hamilton- polarizing I guess. both came and left in big deals. Quirky I suppose? I always liked him, contributed well in the community. a very good player, although possibly leaves you wanting more


Beers- the wildcard, had a longer tenure than most, a few big scoring seasons (admittedly in a high scoring era) but wasn't really viewed in the same stratosphere as Mullen when traded- that was a total steal


still thinking, but I think I know where I am going

[TheScorpion]

Hamilton, without a doubt. I'd take him back in an instant

[dissentowner]

Marc Savard. Even before he was moved and broke out into an elite C he was still a fantastic talent. Imagine what could have been if Button and Gilbert had not driven this franchise off a cliff with their idiocy.

[Cheese]

Tonelli for me. He was a monster for the team after getting him from the Isles. Made a huge difference. Dougie was good, but he was soft as butter.

[Erick Estrada]

Tonelli was a quality player but for me it came down to Savard and Hamilton with the slight edge to Dougie.

[Bourque's Twin]

I wish Reinprecht wasn’t injured in 2004. He was a very good player and on pace to be 3rd in team scoring behind Iginla and Conroy.

Went with Hamilton.

[Eric Vail]

Eric Vail scored over 200 goals and 450 points for the Flames. He won rookie of the year in 1974 and an NHL all star in 1977. He ranks #8 in goals and #10 in points for the franchise.

This is an easy choice. He is one of the top Flames of all time.

[getbak]

Bingo, pretty much the same line of thinking I have on this one.

If we include the Atlanta years, this should definitely be Vail's, but I haven't really counted the Atlanta years for the other numbers.

In Calgary, there are a lot of players who weren't here for a long time and were a mixed bag when they were here.


Looking at their stats, I'm surprised to see that Beers was here as long as he was and scored as many points as he did.

Tonelli wasn't here for a long time, but he helped get the team over the hump in many ways. I always remember him as this grizzled veteran of the Islanders dynasty and was surprised a few years ago when I was looking up his stats to realize that he wasn't even 30 years old when the Flames acquired him.

Beers, Savard, and Hamilton were all here for about the same amount of time at around the same ages.



I'm going to have to think on this one...

[Eric Vail]

Savard was such a bad teammate in the end the team traded him for scraps. I can't believe he gets votes.

[TheIronMaiden]

I have a hard time picking Hamilton. His stupid penalties in the playoffs, and the general lack of playoff success puts him beneath other good players on the list.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

By far the toughest vote so far. No real standouts, but a bunch of good candidates.

Eric Vail was a longtime Atlanta Flame, but not much of a Calgary Flame.

Really liked Eddy Beers. He put up some big years in the early 80s.

I had a real soft spot for John Tonelli, and he was a good secondary scorer. Just a couple years of tenure.

MacLellan was a hard nosed checking winger and good all-around player. Won a cup with the Flames. *Fun fact, when he was traded at the deadline from Minnesota for Churla and Berezan, a 4th round pick came with him as well. That pick was used to select Robert Reichel, our top #26 of all time.

Todd Simpson was our captain during the dark days, and was a decent middle to bottom pairing defender with a physical edge. Just not an exceptional player, but a hard worker none the less.

Marc Savard was a great player, but didn't realize his full potential until leaving Calgary.

I was a big Reinprecht fan. Good #2 center, but not much more. Only played parts of two years.

Leclerc, Roy, Staios, Smith, and Czarnik were all short-term fillers.

Baertschi severely underwhelmed and couldn't stay healthy.

Hamilton was the real deal offensively, solid but questionable at times defensively, but the way he left certainly clouds my view of him. I found it really hard to give this vote to him, But I don't think anyone else really compares. Hamilton it is.

[troutman]

I have a #27 Tonelli jersey. I was a big Islanders fan before the Flames came to Calgary.

[SportsJunky]

Me too. Isles are my 2nd favourite team.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Eric Vail

Savard was such a bad teammate in the end the team traded him for scraps. I can't believe he gets votes.

Care to elaborate on how he was such a bad teammate? Or are you just drinking Gilbert's Kool Aid?

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Eric Vail

Eric Vail scored over 200 goals and 450 points for the Flames. He won rookie of the year in 1974 and an NHL all star in 1977. He ranks #8 in goals and #10 in points for the franchise.

This is an easy choice. He is one of the top Flames of all time.

Don't disagree with you.

But I haven't even included Atlanta players in the polls number by number. Vail is on the list because he played in Calgary, so I'd assess the Calgary Eric Vail as

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32g
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Great player, but didn't have the tenure in my mind.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Care to elaborate on how he was such a bad teammate? Or are you just drinking Gilbert's Kool Aid?

I'm sure there are two sides to every story, and Gilbert doesn't come out looking great here but I think there was at least some smoke to the fire about Savard as a teammate (and or professional)- he matured at some point along the way , but not sure how far along that journey he was by the time he left Calgary