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The 1980s would really be the most successful time for the Calgary Flames. Tickets were hot sellers due to some division and conference championship wins as well as the Stanley Cup win in 1988. From the period of 1984-1991, the Calgary Flames managed to score 90 points or more each season except one. But these successes were always short lived and the team just couldn't manage to keep it together enough to get to the playoffs.
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About The Calgary Flames
In 1987-1988, the Calgary Flames ticket holders watched their team score their first 100-point season and their team had the best record in the league. Then in 1989, the team finally did the one thing they had yet to do. They won the elusive Stanley Cup against the L.A. Kings. The Calgary Flames wouldn't see another playoff until 2004, one of the longest droughts in the history of he NHL.
In 1991 the only general manager the franchise had ever known left the Calgary Flames to become GM of the Maple Leafs and was replaced by Doug Risebrough. The two GM's quickly made a deal trading 10 players. This trade transformed both teams. The Leafs turned into a contender for the Stanley Cup almost immediately while the Calgary Flames got the short end of the stick. It would be the first time the team missed the playoffs since 1975 when they were still housed in Atlanta.
In 2004, after seven consecutive seasons of missing the playoffs, the Calgary Flames ticket holding fans finally saw their team rise from the ashes. They became the first team in the history of the NHL to defeat three division champions and were on their way to making it to become the first Canadian team to make it to the Stanley Cup finals since Vancouver did a decade earlier.
Something lost in last year’s Calgary Flames team was the success of their penalty kill. With ranking fourth in the league, they had an 84% success rate. The Calgary Flames have the defensive team to compete this year and could make it far but they don't have enough top forwards to really do any damage. They will prove to be a touch team to play against and beat and if the right players step-up as they should, the team will have a decent chance. If this doesn't happen, then the Calgary Flames will be a mediocre team with great defense and just good goal tending.
