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By Blundoon on April 26, 2009
The Calgary Flames defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-1 in game five of their divisional final taking a 3-2 series lead. This would be the season when the Flames would finally get past Wayne Gretzky’s Oilers…thanks in part to Oilers rearguard Steve Smith’s own goal in game seven to send Calgary on to the Conference Finals [...]
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By Blundoon on April 25, 2009
April 25, 1993 – The Calgary Flames squander a 2-1 opening round playoff series lead against the Los Angeles Kings with a disappointing 3-1 loss. Calgary would win no more games in 1993 as the Wayne Gretzky led Kings would score nine times in each of the next two games (9-4,9-6) to ice the Flames [...]
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By Blundoon on April 23, 2009
Doug Gilmour scored twice in a 2:43 span in the third period to blunt a Los Angeles rally as the Calgary Flames beat the Los Angeles Kings, 5-2, on April 23, 20 years ago to move within a game of sweeping the Smythe Divisional final series.
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By Blundoon on April 22, 2009
On their fourth attempt, the Cannons finally played the first ever professional home game of baseball in Calgary on April 22 against the Tucson Toros. Lets….. go Toros! We are the Toros!! The mighty mighty Toros!! We’re so terrific, we must be Toros!! Yeah, go Toros!! WOOO!! – Bring It On Parker threw the ceremonial [...]
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By Blundoon on April 21, 2009
Archie Gouldie – The Mongolian Stomper – who was the first Stampede North American Heavyweight Wrestling Champion defeats Abdullah the Butcher on April 21, 1973 to become the 2nd man to claim the Championship belt six times. Abdullah the Butcher had also been a six time champion. The Stomper would go on to eventually win [...]
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