Calgary Flames Top Ten Best Highlight Videos of All Time
By Ramina Shlah
Number 4 – Theoren Fleury Sliding Celebration, 1991
This was a fun one. In 1991, it was the Smythe Division finals with two arch-nemesis: The Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers. It was game 6 and the Oilers had a 3-2 lead in the series. One more win and they’d advance to the next round. Calgary needed a win to stay in it.
But this game would be decided in overtime. Even more stress now.
Theoren Fleury, one of Calgary best players in franchise history, gets the puck from Mark Messier who unfortunately gave it away to Fleury. Fleury hadn’t scored a goal all series long yet. Looking for his first goal.. he shoots.. and he SCORES! The Flames came back from being down 3-1 in the series to tying it up!
But that wasn’t the fun part. The fun part came with Fleury’s celebration.
The funny thing about this is that a few years ago, the Oilers were playing a game against the LA Kings and they were down 1-0. So cue Nail Yakupov to the rescue and scores with 4.7 seconds left of the game to tie it up. And you know how he celebrated? I mean, I’m sure you can guess.
He did his best Fleury impression. In fact, it was almost an exact replica of Fleury’s celebration.
Don’t worry Theo, we think yours was better.