The season has ended in Calgary. It was an ignominious finish as the missed the playoffs for the first time since Darryl Sutter's first year as general manager of the Flames; 2003-04.
Sutter got the Flames into the playoffs the next year and that team scratched and clawed their way through 26 playoff games, finally losing a seven game series in the Stanley Cup finals to the champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
That team featured a few young stars, Jarome Iginla and Miikka Kiprusoff, leading the way. Robyn Regehr lead the defense. He was a 23-year-old who had come over in the Theoren Fleury deal. He was then in his fifth season playing in Calgary.
The rest of the team might charitably have been called role players. Management rewarded what they saw as the ...
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Article written by Scott Weldon