By Blundoon on May 5, 2009
Drafted 15th overall in 1987 National Hockey Leagues Entry Draft the Quebec Nordiques, future Hall of Fame National Hockey League center Joe Sakic was passed over by Los Angeles (#4 Wayne McBean), Pittsburgh (#5 Chris Joseph), Minnesota (#6 Dave Archibald), Chicago (#8 Jimmy Waite), Quebec (#9 Brian Fogarty), New York Rangers (#10 Jayson More), Detroit [...]
Posted in Hockey | Tagged Avalanche, Colorado, Joe, MVP, NHL, Nordiques, Quebec, Sakic |
By Blundoon on April 28, 2009
With the Calgary Flames 2008-09 season now firmly in the rear view mirror Calgary Sports takes a look back at the year that was in fights and selects the six best scraps involving the Calgary Flames this past season. One Flame noticeably absent from the list is Dion Phaneuf who seems no longer to be [...]
Posted in Flames | Tagged Calgary, Eric, Fights, Flames, Iginla, Jarome, Jim, NHL, Nystrom, Peters, Vandermeer, Warren |
By Blundoon on April 27, 2009
Chicago moves on to the second round with a 4-1 victory Special teams, Nikolai Khabibulin, special teams, more Khabibulin and special teams again are the reason why Chicago won this series 4-2and , this game 4-1 and are moving on to face the Vancouver Canucks in round two. Because Calgary couldn’t score on the powerplay, [...]
Posted in Flames | Tagged Blackhawks, Calgary, Chicago, Flames, NHL, Playoffs |
By Blundoon on April 27, 2009
While injuries will be chalked up as the formatted excuse as to why the Calgary Flames, with ample talent could not advance out of the first round but the real reason the the Flames flamed out this year and the excuse they should be using is that their powerplay failed this year. The Calgary Flames [...]
Posted in Flames | Tagged Calgary, Flames, Jim, Keenan, Mike, NHL, Playfair, Powerplay |
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 [...]
Posted in Looking Back | Tagged Calgary, Edmonton, Flames, NHL, Oilers |
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