Calgary Flames Top Ten Best Highlight Videos of All Time

Number 5 – Jarome Iginla’s First Return to Calgary, 2013

Get the tissues out, this one’s an emotional one. Jarome Iginla had been playing with the Calgary Flames since 1996. And he was their captain for a decade. He is the franchise’s all-time leader in goals and points.

So when he was 35 years old and time was starting to wind down, something needed to happen. In 2013, Iginla was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in hopes of achieving a Stanley Cup. But unfortunately, they lost in the Eastern Conference finals. The following season, he joined the Boston Bruins for 2013-14. His first game back in Calgary was in December and everyone knew this would be an emotional one.

First, it started off as Beasley’s doing his regular announcements and talking about some charities, the crowd is already yelling, “Iggy! Iggy!” He takes the puck drop against new Flames captain Mark Giordano. And then roll the tears, because they showed a tribute video for Iginla.

After the tribute video the cheers and Iggy chants are going on for more than two minutes. I know it doesn’t seem like a long time, but they generally don’t last that long.

After the game, the Bruins won 2-1 (Iginla didn’t have any points), but he was still named the third star of the game.

A few of the Bruins players were on the bench and captain Zdeno Chara made Iggy do a lap around the rink as the fans were chanting his name. Then all the Bruins players came back from the locker room onto the bench to cheer on their teammate as his old fans kept chanting his name and cheering for him. Let me tell you, I think this is the biggest cheer a third star of a game has ever gotten.

I was a total mess this game, I’m not going to lie to you. Maybe we’ll see Iggy in a flaming C for one last season before he decides to hang his skates up.