Calgary Flames Top Ten Best Highlight Videos of All Time
By Ramina Shlah
Number 6 – Steve Smith Own Goal, 1986
Another Throwback Thursday we’ve done here. But this was exciting for Calgary Flames fans. For Edmonton Oilers fans? Not so much.
It was game 7 in the Smythe Division finals for the Flames and Oilers. The winner moves on to the next round in the playoffs. There was 14 minutes left of the game and the game was tied. So what happens?
Poor Oilers rookie defenceman Steve Smith tries to clear the zone and accidentally puts the puck into his own net. You can see the regret in his body language immediately. He right away lays down on the ice and puts his head down.
Unfortunately for the Oilers, they never recovered and the Flames went on all the way to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history (they lost to Montreal).
The worst thing about that? It was Smith’s 23rd birthday. Yikes.
You can see the excitement in the Flames players faces when they realize a goal’s been scored. And the best part about being a Flames fan is that it happened in Edmonton too. Ah, the joy I get from that.
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I asked my dad a while back about this game, and he said that every time the Oilers would play in Calgary, whenever Steve Smith had the puck, people would yell, “Shoot!” And funnily enough, he ended up playing for the Flames years later too.
And he even was captain too!
Don’t feel too bad for Smith because the following year, the Oilers won the Cup. So it took Oilers fans about a year to get over it, but hey! Everyone needs time to heal, right?