Jersey Poll - All Time #15

[Bingo]

Did this five years ago, thought it might be interesting again. Always fun to see younger fans and older fans arguing over different generations in a battle.

Will put one up a day whenever possible.

Have fun! and Go old guys!

How it works:

I pick off a key group of players for each jersey. I don't use every name, as that gets tedious and unnecessary (probably go with say 5 unless there are many that wore the same number).

I also don't put up a guy for the number he isn't known for (Iginla shouldn't win #24 for example)

Results:
1 - Roman Turek 67.8% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138746)
2 - Al MacInnis 99% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138764)
3 - Dion Phaneuf 70% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138765)
4 - Brad McCrimmon 74% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138787)
5 - Mark Giordano 95% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138808) (
6 - Phil Housley 74% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138825)
7 - Joey Mullen 93% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138841)
8 - Doug Risebrough 61% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138858)
9 - Lanny McDonald 100% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138872)
10 - Gary Roberts 96% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138873)
11 - Stephane Yelle 54% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138888)
12 - Jarome Iginla 92% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138903)
13 - Mike Cammalleri 67% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138916)
14 - Theo Fleury 92% (http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=138939)

[Bingo]

Almost omitted St. Louis because he's done it all elsewhere ... so hoping he doesn't win.

[Stanathan]

Sandy McCarthy no question for me. One of my favourite Flames ever!

[troutman]

Lavallee had a cannon.

[codynw]

I thought about voting for Super Goon Simon, but I appreciate all that Tambellini did to the Oilers as GM, so it had to go to him.

[Poe969]

Had to go with Chris Simon. Loved the guy. I think it was the quote from Conny about when Simon was on the ice, everyone felt a foot taller.

[SuperMatt18]

Went with Simon, helped bring the identity to the 03/04 team.

Probably should have been Lavallee though looking purely at stats.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Went with Simon because I actually watched him play.

[Cali Panthers Fan]

What a miserable list of players. Why so many goons wearing 15? If we were suggesting the best player on this list to wear that number, well it's easily Martin St. Louis, but he did almost everything of note away from the Flames, so can't do that obviously.

Sandy McCarthy was a decent enforcer with slight offensive talent back in the day. Still not a great player IMO, but a fan favorite nonetheless.

Tim Jackman had a great first year, and then proceeded to be pretty much awful from there on. Frustrating.

Chris Simon brought a lot to the table, but never produced offensively the way he should and had a very short tenure in Calgary. I liked him, but just can't vote for him.

Steve Tambellini? Oilers and Canucks stink all over him…next.

Byron Ritchie…ugh. Barely a 4th liner but people liked him so much more than they should have. Didn't care for him at all.

Had to go with Kevin Lavallee. Had a few good years in the early 80s and a relatively short NHL career, but carved out a nice career in Europe after the NHL. The best of a bad list.

Can we just move on to #16? This depressed me.

[jlh2640]

Sandy Mcarthy wins just over Chris Simon. He was here longer thats why.

[Steve Bozek]

Can I take back a vote? I meant to pick Lavallee and hit Richard.

[DT77]

I can't believe Jacques Richard scored 50 goals and 100 points one season. Chalk it up to playing with the Stastnys in the high-scoring 80s I guess. His next best totals were 27 goals and 43 points in his sophomore season. In fact he only cracked 40 points one other time and never more than 17 goals. Such an anomalous season.

Interesting fact: Jacques Richard is the only player to have played in both the Atlanta Flames' first NHL game and the Calgary Flames' first game. Obviously with Atlanta in 1972 and Quebec in 1980. Dan Bouchard technically can be included as well as he was the backup in '72 and got the start in '80.

/randomness

Oh... um, Sandy McCarthy? He made some dull years fun.

[Vulcan]

I liked Simon, McCarthy and St. Louis while they were here. Simon did the most for us though and could play hockey besides punch your face.

McCarthy thought he could play hockey but really couldn't do much. His spindly legs left him lying on the ice when doing anything but fighting. Great fighter though.

[Calgary4LIfe]

Sandy McCarthy brought some excitement to an otherwise forgettable era for the Flames. Who can forget the Probert fights? Sandy did become the 'champ' while in Calgary. I remember Titov talking about McCarthy's fights, and how everyone on the team loved it.

Easy decision. Simon was close, but his tenure in Calgary was way too short to be considered here.

[Puppet Guy]

Talk about picking the best from a bad batch.

picked McCarthy.

[MissTeeks]

I voted Chris Simon, just because he signed my friend's chest at Cowboys in '04. Seems like a good idea at the time.

[CsInMyBlood]

Went with Simon, he scored some important goals during our run in '04.

McCarthy was a close second. What a beast.

I've told my Kevin LaVallee story on CP before, but I figure it's been so many years that I will tell it again.

At a Flames game when I was about twelve, Reggie Lemelin was in the Flames net. My friend being the biggest Lemelin fan ever, cheered like a nutball, over the top apeshiz every time Reggie made any kind of save.

A bunch of "adults" (four guys in their mid 20's) were beside us and one made the comment that we seemed like big Lemelin fans and that was cool, cause Reggie was a great guy.

Later on during a stop in play, one of the guys asked us if we knew who Kevin LaVallee was. My friend replied, "Yeah, he has a really hard shot, too bad he could never hit the net." Three of the guys burst into crying laughter and one said, "This is Kevin LaVallee", and pointed to the guy who was sitting next to us. Kevin didn't find the comment nearly as funny as his buddies did.

Later on, to get back at my friend, LaVallee pulled the old "Hey kid, whats this on your shirt?" routine, and gave my friend a tap on the nose when he looked down. My friend said, "Hey, whats that on your eye?" and pretended to poke him in the eye, except he actually did poke him in the freaking eye. HAHAHA. So brutal. His buddies found it funnier than the can't hit the net comment.

Kevin LaVallee was still super cool to us, even after getting his eye poked. We made the poor guy show us his drivers licence because we didn't believe it was actually him. Heh. Still have the autograph he gave me in a Flames program from that night.

[FlamesAddiction]

What happened to Kevin Lavallee anyway? He went from being a decent point producer in the NHL, to playing in Austria, Italy, Britain and Switzerland.

Was he too small to take the physical punishment in the NHL?

[VladtheImpaler]

Talk about mediocrity. Lavallee had a cannon but could not hit the net. St.Louis didn't do anything here. Richard was a decent player for a few early years in Atlanta with stats comparable to Lavallee's. Pffft - no good choices.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

One of those polls where you're not sure you want to pick anyone.

I eventually decided on Simon, wasn't with the Flames long, but having a big body like his in the '04 run made a pretty big difference at times. Sandy was one of my all-time favorite goons, but he wasn't a very good player.