Calgary Flames Top Ten Best Highlight Videos of All Time
By Ramina Shlah
Number 10 – Flames versus Bruins, 2015
It’s not always that just a regular season game would make a top-ten highlights list. But this one does for many reasons. Dougie Hamilton was traded to the Calgary Flames during the off-season in 2015 before the 2015-16 season. He was traded from the Boston Bruins and this left a bit of a sour taste in Bruins fans mouths. And they continue to boo him when the Flames visit TD Garden.
But let’s move on to the game.
It’s a game between the Bruins and the Flames (it’s in Calgary so no booing for Dougie) in December and it’s Dougie’s first game against his former team.
The Calgary Flames opened up the scoring less than a minute into the game by Johnny Gaudreau. The Flames managed to make it 2-0 with around four minutes left in the first period. The Bruins managed to cut the lead to one less than two minutes later. And late in the first period is where it gets interesting.
Brad Marchand and Johnny Gaudreau both go at it and they each get two minutes for slashing. Then they were trash-talking each other in the penalty box. Well, Marchand was. Gaudreau was smiling the whole time.
It was funny because these two guys are two of the smallest players on the ice at the moment. And Gaudreau is known for not taking penalties. Like, ever. He had juts four PIM this past season and was the Lady Byng winner. But moving on.
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The Bruins managed to tie up the game early in the second period. By who? Brad Marchand.
But Johnny won’t let him have it.
They haven’t even finished announcing the goal yet and Johnny Hockey makes it 3-2. Twenty seconds after Marchand’s goal, and Gaudreau now has two goals for the night. But don’t start cheering too hard right now because the Bruins would tie it up again 26 seconds later.
The score would remain 3-3 until 1:06 left in the game. Marchand had a breakaway and what happens? Dougie Hamilton clips him and Marchand would get a penalty shot.
Remember, this is against Dougie’s old team. There’s nothing he wants more than to win against his old team and he goes and gets the other team a penalty shot. That’s got to be one of the worst feelings in the world, I mean, you’ve gotta feel for him. Especially since Marchand scores on the penalty shot. The Bruins are cheering, there’s only a minute left in the game, and they’ve got this one in the bag.
Marchand’s happy because if Gaudreau scores two goals, so can he, right? Marchand also goes five-hole. Don’t worry, this will be important in a minute.
The Bruins are up 4-3 and what happens? The Flames tie it up with 1.2 seconds left in the game. The crowd is going absolutely wild, it feels like a playoff game. So let’s go to extra time.
Dougie Hamilton and T.J. Brodie have a two on one breakaway in OT and Dougie has the puck. You think he’ll slide it over to Brodie, right? Well, he notices Gaudreau quickly catching up to the two and passes it back to Gaudreau. Gaudreau thinking, “Anything Marchand can do, I can do better,” shoots it five-hole (like Marchand), gets the game-winner, gets a hat trick, and Dougie was the primary assist on the goal. Like I said, the crowd is going CRAZY. And you can tell by Dougie’s reaction after Gaudreau scored that he was ecstatic.
Here’s the video for that:
I find myself constantly going back to this video. It’s always a fun game to watch and it was especially fun if you watched it when it happened. It had everything you could hope for in a hockey game. What a wild game truly from start to finish.