With everyone waiting for the regular season to come, let’s take a look at the top ten best Calgary Flames highlight videos to keep us occupied.
Pre-season starts soon and the regular season is less than a month away! So close yet so far away. And the Young Stars tournament starts even sooner where some Calgary Flames prospects will be there.
With the regular season right around the corner and all of us sitting around waiting, we need something to do. Now, I don’t know about all of you, but during the off-season, I find myself watching the same type of highlight videos over and over again. Just to keep me occupied with hockey until real hockey starts again.
I find myself going back to the same videos because they’re so entertaining to watch and always put a smile to my face. And with the regular season coming soon, I want to help all of you keep yourselves occupied as well! So I’ve put together a list of the ten best Calgary Flames highlight videos! I will admit though, a lot of these are in recent years. Since there aren’t always videos from 20-30 years ago.
Which brings us to our first honorable mention.
Honorable Mentions
This wouldn’t be a true “Top Ten” if I didn’t include an honorable mention. Or two in this case. Why this first one didn’t make the list is because there is no video available for this. I have SCOURED the internet all over and I cannot seem to find any sort of video of this. And since this happened before I was even born, I have to relive it through my dads memories, basically.
There are even Calgary Flames forums asking if anybody has a video of this specific game.
But it was 1993 and the Flames were playing the San Jose Sharks. The Sharks scored the first goal, but don’t worry, Calgary came back. And they came back BIG. They ended up winning that game 13-1. My dad was at that game and he said that with a minute left of the game (when Flames are up 13-1), he started yelling, “Take the goalie out!”
That game is the largest win margin in the modern NHL era (after the initial expansion).
I won’t go into too much detail because we did a whole Throwback Thursday on that moment just last week which can be found here.
Related Story: Throwback Thursday - Beating the Sharks 13-1
Honorable Mention #2
Of course SOMEWHERE on this list, we had to include Miikka Kiprusoff and a highlight reel of his saves. However, it was hard to find somewhere to actually include it in this list. But it wouldn’t be a Top Ten without Kip included somewhere in it.
There was also this specific save where Kip had this awesome Scorpion-like save:
The quality of the video isn’t the best and the person title doesn’t even spell Kiprusoff’s name right, but you get the idea. This is the only video I could find of this specific save and I had to include it. There’s also this save that wasn’t in that highlight video which is easily in Kiprusoff’s best ten saves:
Man, he really likes kicking his foot up to make saves, hey? Imagine Kip with the Flames club right now. They would really be unstoppable. Moving on, let’s get into the Top Ten list.