Calgary Flames Top Ten Best Highlight Videos of All Time
By Ramina Shlah
Number 1 – Winning the Cup, 1989
The Calgary Flames were the President’s Trophy winners at the end of the regular season in 1988-89. A repeat of the year before. But the year before, they were eliminated early on in the playoffs. They were hoping that wouldn’t be the case in 1989.
They started the first round against the Vancouver Canucks. This would have to go to game 7. And overtime in game 7.
Canucks’ Stan Smyl had a breakaway alone on Mike Vernon in overtime. And Vernon had this amazing glove save against him that all the players dubbed it as “the save that won the cup”.
(skip to the 4:35 mark to see the save).
The following series, the Calgary Flames played the LA Kings and completely dominated that series, sweeping them effortlessly to make it to the Western Conference Finals. And that was almost like a walk in the park too for the President’s Trophy winners. They faced the Chicago Blackhawks and beat them in five games.
They’re now Western Conference Champions for the second time in franchise history. But they’re used to this: facing the Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup finals. Let’s just hope history doesn’t repeat itself this time.
(They met in 1986 where the Habs won in the Finals).
The Flames are up in the series 3-2 and being the league leaders at the end of the regular season, game 6 would be played at the Montreal Forum – where no other team had ever beaten the Habs before in the Stanley Cup Finals. Would they do it?
Spoiler alert: they did!
For more in-depth on this Cup run, go here where we talked about it in a Throwback Thursday.
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But since I wasn’t alive then, I decided to ask my dad about what the city was like since he’s been following the Flames since they relocated in 1980. This is what he said:
"We were driving around in my friend’s Corvette with the roof down yelling “Go Flames Go!”. We drove for three hours just around the city yelling about the Flames. Where we would go is we would drive down the Red Mile, then turn on 11th street, go all the way around back to first street and go back again. We just kept doing that all night honking with everyone, everyone’s partying on the streets. It was so much fun. The city was so much fun."
Man, what a fun time that must be. Witnessing your team win the Stanley Cup. We could only hope that we’ll get to see the Flames do that sometime soon. I mean, it’s only been 28 years, it’s bound to happen soon!
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And that’s all we have for you today! Maybe this following season will give us some new highlight videos to add to the mix.