FN's All-Time Greatest Flames Team: Jim Peplinski

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - 1980'S: Jim Peplinski #24 of the Calgary Flames skates on the ice during an NHL game against the New Jersey Devils circa 1980's at the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett Studios/Getty Images)As we roar onwards with our All-Time Flames Team, we get to a player that never really put up insane numbers but was crucial to the Calgary Flames success in the 1980s - Jim Peplinski!

While he wasn't quite as good as Calgary's elite players, Peplinski personified teamwork, on-ice leadership and toughness. And he was good enough to play with the team's elite players, as well as rugged enough to make space for them when they needed somebody to.

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