There wasn’t a lot of competition here as the player with the best NHL career to have worn the #47 was Jean-Sebastian Giguere, but his best work came with Anaheim and not with Calgary. He wasn’t given the chance to do much of anything with the Flames, so the honour of Best #47 falls to Sven Baertschi, a player that supposed to be an NHL impact player. That never happened in his time with the Flames.
Baertschi came to Calgary as highly touted and relatively high overall draft pick. Calgary selected him with the 13th overall pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft and were expecting big things from the Swiss winger.