If you want to get really traditional, players have to graduate to a non-training camp number - that is to say, a lower one. A lot of training camp numbers tend to be high and look odd and out of place, but it kind of fits: when they make the team for real, they'll get their number for real.
Mikael Backlund started life in the NHL as #60, but once he made it full time, he took over #11. He's already one of the longest-tenured Flames to wear it.
#11 on the Flames
Backlund is the 19th player on the Flames to ever wear #11:
- RW Leon Rochefort
- C Bill Hogaboam
- C Claude St.