Vote for your dream Calgary Flames’ all-time starting lineup

[transplant99]

Didnt see this posted elsewhere

https://globalnews.ca/news/6938571/c...0GlobalCalgary

[looooob]

interesting exercise- should be easy by now with all the rankings and other mock lineups we have done over the past while


4 spots were easy- forwards I had to muse a bit about and decided to go with 3 distinct positions


coach also a bit pesky

[MrMike]

Iginla Nieuwendyk Fleury
MacInnis Regehr
Kiprusoff
Sutter

[SeanCharles]

Originally Posted by MrMike

Iginla Nieuwendyk Fleury
MacInnis Regehr
Kiprusoff
Sutter

Same except for Regehr (Suter).

[Iggy_12]

Id be interested in an all time flames player lineup with players in their prime so we could include guys like Jagr, Nolan, Amonte, Bertuzzi.

That would be an interesting activity

Jagr - Nieuwendyk - Iginla
Fleury - Gilmour - Hull
Johnny - Nilsson - St. Louis
Nolan- Mcdonald- Bertuzzi

Mcinnis - Suter
Regehr - Housley
Gio - Mcrimmon

Kiprusoff
Vernon
Gigure

im sure i missed some pretty elite players but damn what a team

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Iggy_12

Id be interested in an all time flames player lineup with players in their prime so we could include guys like Jagr, Nolan, Amonte, Bertuzzi.

That would be an interesting activity

Jagr - Nieuwendyk - Iginla
Fleury - Gilmour - Hull
Johnny - Nilsson - St. Louis
Nolan- Mcdonald- Bertuzzi

Mcinnis - Suter
Regehr - Housley
Gio - Mcrimmon

Kiprusoff
Vernon
Gigure

im sure i missed some pretty elite players but damn what a team

yeah that's a hard exercise


but on forward alone you would have to consider Makarov as a no brainer, and then both Loob and Mullen were for a time first time all star RWs...bertuzzi was a good player in Van but he and Nolan need to move aside at minimum as there is also a prime Gary Roberts to consider head to head with those guys



goal is interesting as Fuhr and Cujo are in the mix too

[Iggy_12]

Originally Posted by looooob

yeah that's a hard exercise


but on forward alone you would have to consider Makarov as a no brainer, and then both Loob and Mullen were for a time first time all star RWs...bertuzzi was a good player in Van but he and Nolan need to move aside at minimum as there is also a prime Gary Roberts to consider head to head with those guys



goal is interesting as Fuhr and Cujo are in the mix too

Ya youre probably right, i was just thinking nolan and bertuzzi would be better fits for the bottom 6 but youre likely right theres just too much to choose from that top 6 is filthy though.

Honestly forgot about Fuhr haha hes probably in over Gigure hey? its fun to think of, good trip down memory lane of these guys and their stints as flames

[SuperMatt18]

Gio and Macinnis should be the d-pairing IMO.

Giordano won a Norris trophy as a Flame and has been in the conversation of best d-man in the league for about 5 years now. (If not for the torn bicep there was a good chance he win's the norris that season too.)

Macinnis is the only other Flames d-man with that type of pedigree.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Gio and Macinnis should be the d-pairing IMO.

Giordano won a Norris trophy as a Flame and has been in the conversation of best d-man in the league for about 5 years now.

Macinnis is the only other Flames d-man with that type of pedigree.

Concur


the way I look at it there are 4 players that I think you could make a legit argument that there was a time where they were the 'best in the league' at their position (meaning forward, D or goalie- so I am not talking about Mullen or Loob or Phaneuf or etc making a first team all star slot in a given year)


Iggy

Gio(Norris)
MacInnis (deserved Norris in Calgary IMO- reputation came stronger in StL)
Kipper


so I felt most comfortable with those 4

[Harry Lime]

I went with Badger Bob as the coach. He was able to motivate the entire team, rookies to vets, across several roster changes and several teams. He was rarely outcoached by the other team. Sort of a prototypical guy.

[foofighter15]

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[timun]

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

I went with Badger Bob as the coach. He was able to motivate the entire team, rookies to vets, across several roster changes and several teams. He was rarely outcoached by the other team. Sort of a prototypical guy.

Same.


Seems I'm the only one who has posted their choices here so far who would pick Roberts over Fleury...


Roberts - Nieuwendyk - Iginla
MacInnis - Giordano
Kiprusoff

Bagber Bob

[looooob]

^^that is my team also.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by timun

Same.


Seems I'm the only one who has posted their choices here so far who would pick Roberts over Fleury...


Roberts - Nieuwendyk - Iginla
MacInnis - Giordano
Kiprusoff

Bagber Bob

Im the same except for Gio...i put Suter there.

This was a lot more difficult than i thought it may be.

Gilmour and Mullen up front and Gio on the backend were really hard to leave off.

[Bingo]

I found the forwards tough

Went with

Fleury
Iginla
Mullen

MacInnis
Giordano

Kiprusoff

Badger

[Red Slinger]

This was harder than I thought.

Iginla
Theo
Nieuwendyk

Giordano
MacInnis

Kiprusoff

Sutter

It was tough to leave Gilmour and Mullen out of the forwards. And I struggled between Badger Bob and Sutter. I went with Sutter just because he could squeeze every little bit out of the talent he had.

[wretched34]

Tkachuk-Gilmour-Iginla
MacInnis-Giordano
Kipper

Sutter

I tried to take position into account

[Steve Bozek]

Iginla Nilsson McDonald
MacInnis Regher
Kipper
Johnson

[calculoso]

Iginla Niewendyk Fleury
MacInnis Giordano
Kipper
Johnson

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

What would be interesting would be to do an all time worst lineup for each team. It would have to be made up with players who were regulars at their positions (like worst first line center, starting goaltender and the like).