One Game Wonders: Rich Lemieux

In the history of the Flames franchise, 606 players have tugged a red sweater over their heads and suited up for a regular season game. Of those, 22 played just a single game for either the Calgary or Atlanta Flames. We call them One Game Wonders.

Let’s talk about another One Game Wonder, Rich Lemieux.

A junior star with the Montreal Junior Canadiens, Lemieux was a third round pick of the Vancouver Canucks back in 1971. (He was also drafted in 1972 by the Los Angeles Sharks of the World Hockey Association. This will matter later.)

Lemieux split the 1971-72 season between the Canucks and the AHL’s Rochester Americans before going full-time onto the Canucks roster for 1972-73 and 1973-74. He had…