Calgary Flames All Time Roster - #3 Right Wing

[Bingo]

So some details ...

1. Calgary players only
2. I'll look at games played, production and PPG to list options.
3. My cut off won't effect options as I'll go deeper than required
4. I'll label them by rank (3rd line LW) but don't select the player that matches that role the best, pick the best player.

Day to Day

We elect a position, say 2nd line RW, remove that name and do the 3rd line RW the next day.

I'll post a summary as we go along.

Calgary Flames All Time Roster

Gary Roberts - Joe Nieuwendyk - Jarome Iginla
Johnny Gaudreau - Doug Gilmour - Theo Fleury
Matthew Tkachuk - Sean Monahan - RW3
Alex Tanguay - Joel Otto - RW4

D1 - D2
D3 - D4
D5 - D6

Miikka Kiprusoff
Mike Vernon

[Bingo]

This one could get dicey ...

I went with Mullen as I think he had the most significant impact in game out comes but hardly a slight against Loob and McDonald.

Really tough for me when you look at production, tenure and quality of person.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Lanny. He was Mr. Franchise before Iginla showed up. He still is in many ways.

Great player, great human, extremely important to making this a legitimate team in the 80s.

Also, had a season with 66 goals. I doubt anybody will ever eclipse that mark.

[Erick Estrada]

I’m having a really difficult time choosing between Lanny, Loob, and Mullen. You can make really good arguments for each one.

[Jacks]

Makarov - Loved the guy but he was only here for 4 years near the end of his career. If he had come over 4 or 5 years earlier who knows what could have been.

Mullen - Here a little over 4 years. Great player and produced both in the regular season and when it matters most in the playoffs.

Loob - Here for 6 years, one amazing season and a few very good ones. Left in his prime which is a shame.

McDonald - Here for 8 seasons to end his career. Captain and face of the franchise, lead the team to the cup. Had some amazing commercials also.

Had to go McDonald here, the next round will be brutal. Having to choose between Mullen and Loob will be the hardest decision of all.

[CSharp]

Joey Mullen deserves to be here with the great right wingers the Flames had from the late 80's to early 90's. Absolutely no doubt about it. He was the first of the integral trades Fletcher made to get Calgary to the Cup Finals. If he's left out of the All-Time Right wing category for the Flames, it'll be a travesty.

[SeanCharles]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I’m having a really difficult time choosing between Lanny, Loob, and Mullen. You can make really good arguments for each one.

Move one of our RWers over to the left, instead of the other way around for a change?

[Strange Brew]

Mullen will get my vote in the next round. Given all the great players on that 1989 team, he goes a little underappreciated IMO. Lead the team in goals and points during the season.

And 16 goals in 21 playoff games!!!

[Buff]

I think Mullen is the most underrated/overlooked player in Flames history. Even though Lanny is handily winning this round this far, it is nice to see the good comments favouring Joey.

Next round will be Mullen Vs Loob. Neither deserve to lose.

[Bingo]

I wish we had the stats that we have today to do a dive on these three players. If we did I think we'd see Mullen and Loob as more complete players, better in their own zone, able to use them in more situations.

Mullen and Loob were on both special teams, don't recall a lot of PK work for McDonald.

But McDonald was a great player, had a huge season, and an important part of Flames history, certainly don't want to disparage him.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Bingo

I wish we had the stats that we have today to do a dive on these three players. If we did I think we'd see Mullen and Loob as more complete players, better in their own zone, able to use them in more situations.

Mullen and Loob were on both special teams, don't recall a lot of PK work for McDonald.

But McDonald was a great player, had a huge season, and an important part of Flames history, certainly don't want to disparage him.

This is a big deal IMO. He is part of Canadian hockey lore really, more than any other Flames player.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

This is a big deal IMO. He is part of Canadian hockey lore really, more than any other Flames player.

Agreed. Lanny McDonald is synonymous with the Flames and I think that means something.

[868904]

I just missed out on Lanny's prime years but 66 goals is pretty crazy. I know it was different era and goalies were crap back then but still, that's a Flames record that likely won't get broken.

Plus, he was apparently tough as nails and could really fight. Look at that lineup, Iginla, Roberts, Fleury, Otto, Mcdonald, Gilmour, Tkachuk. That is a very gritty lineup.

Plus I imagine Regher will make the team too and there's other super tough defensemen in the history of this team who could make it like Macoun, McCrimmon, Nattress.

Flames might not have the all time most skilled or HOF team, but I'd put that lineup up against any franchises' best in a 7 game series.

[rogermexico]

I love all of the players in discussion here. Lanny was such an immense part of the team when I started watching hockey in the 80s. He was the Calgary Flames, and that single-season goals record is amazing.

Joe Mullen was wonderful—an all-time great player.

Makarov, from a hockey history perspective, is one of the greatest players to ever wear a Flames jersey.

But Hakan Loob was my favorite when I was a kid so I'm voting for him.

[FanIn80]

I had predicted Mullen for this round, but when the time came, I couldn't resist voting for Lanny. He and Iggy are pretty much synonymous with Flames.

Looks like Mullen takes the 4th spot and bumps Loob from the list (unless we're adding a 13th forward, in which case Loob should snag that over Nilsson).

[Hoop27]

Can we just have a line of Tkachuk-Gilmour-Fleury for the lol's please?

How Lanny wasn't #2 baffles me. Mind you I was there for goal 500 and point 1000 so I'm biased.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Hoop27

Can we just have a line of Tkachuk-Gilmour-Fleury

They would certainly take a lot of penalties but they would draw way more. Would be great defensively also.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Hoop27

Can we just have a line of Tkachuk-Gilmour-Fleury for the lol's please?

How Lanny wasn't #2 baffles me. Mind you I was there for goal 500 and point 1000 so I'm biased.

I can never find it online but every once and a while they show his 500th goal against the Islanders and then pan the crowd ... there is me with hockey hair in a blue club monaco sweatshirt.

Imagine wearing a blue club monaco sweat shirt to a game and not a jersey?

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Bingo

Imagine wearing a blue club monaco sweat shirt to a game and not a jersey?

Must've been during one of your infamous CDC Paste benders.

[looooob]

I've voted Mullen for 2 days now, will try my best to defend what is a very hard decision. First of all clearly the correct 2 players have gone first and second (based on their Flames tenure)

The 4 remaining plausible choices are all very worthy

I am going put Makarov to the side first. Yes probably the most storied career of them all, and we are lucky to have seen him as a Flame. But his tenure was the shortest, and while all of the other 3 were contemporaries on both the 86 and 89 teams that went very deep, Makarov played for teams with generally less (playoff ) success. Finally (and selfishly) Makarov was here for a time where I had moved out of town- the other 3 guys I saw play live in flames silks many many times, Makarov, I did, but not nearly as much. its no shame finishing 4th in this crowd

Now the other 3 are 3 of my favorites- heck check my user handle. They all at least on the surface seemed like great guys who played the game the 'right' way . You would have to have watched Mullen or Loob to understand both how tough and good they were both ways as their size and PIM stats wouldn't make that obvious and as someone mentioned above, we don't have the benefit of the 'fancy stats'.

Lanny was a famous player who arrived on the scene and took Calgarians on a wild ride with his 66 goal season, was the favoured story through the 89 run (we knew he was retiring, Loob we did not) and has remained a fixture in Calgary til this day. Retired Number. HOFer

Loob won the Calgary crowd over in a different way LOOOOOOOB, but win us over he did. took a young Joe Who under his wings and the two of them had a season for the ages in 88, one that has not be equalled by a Swedish player since. The Flames did not recover from his retirement in 89. An international legend

So Why Mullen?

he arrived in a steal of a trade in 86 and at that time became the teams STAR (Lanny was on the way down- but still useful, Chopper and others on the way up). The flames scoring leader at that point was Dan Quinn- whose all around play was so marginal he wasn't even a regular come playoff time. Anyways the Flames kicked it into gear in late 86 and in though the playoffs. Mullen led all playoff scorers in goals in 86as the Flames went as far as they had ever been before,to the finals and proved to themselves they could take on the Oilers

in 86-87, the Flames had their best regular season ever to date. Mullen was clearly the teams star player and leading scorer with Al MacInnis finishing 2nd. team struggled a bit against a not bad Winnipeg team in the playoffs

in 87-88 the team won the presidents trophy and as a group scored more goals than any team in league history that didn't have Gretzky or Orr on it. Mullen personally took a tiny step back but was one of 4 40 goal men. the puck needed to be shared between Mullen, Loob, Nieuwy, Bullard, MacInnis, Suter and Reinhart on the PP and not everyone was going to have a career year. still a good season

in 88-89 Mullen was 'the man' and the Flames were 'the team'. 110 points. first team AS RW Presidents trophy, Stanley cup, led the playoffs in goal scoring for a 2nd time ' nuff said

89-90. Not bad for the Flames2nd overall Mullen took a step back but still 30+ goals, Cliff saw Makarov and Fleury and Gilmour and Nieuwy and Roberts and Ranheim up front and took a gamble- mullen was 'too old' and the Flames were a good drafting team- take a pick and retool. Except Mullen wasn't done and the Flames stopped drafting well. OOPS

anyways in Summary in my mind from mid 86-mid 90 that was the Flames best run- 2 presidents trophies, a cup, a finals run. the best the flames ever were, and jockeying with the Oilers for the best in the biz...and Mullen was their Star and possibly their best player (in truth it was probably MacInnis but that wasn't obvious at the time). The big dog in the big pond. Mullen was famous around Calgary at the time even if his legend seems to have faded a bit