This coming May is the 40th anniversary of the Atlanta Flames moving to Calgary. To commemorate this occasion, we’re counting down the Top 40 Calgary Flames in history.
#4 on our list is Theoren Fleury.
For anybody who grew up as a fan of the Flames in the 1990s, Fleury was probably their favourite player. Originally a late round pick of the Flames in 1987, the thought was he’d be a decent minor league star that could help their IHL team fill the seats.
Baseball great Ty Cobb once remarked that baseball was not unlike a war, and that was seemingly the mentality Fleury took into every shift.