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The Calgary Flames are a professional hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and play out of the Pengrowth Saddledome. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL).
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The Calgary Flames are a result of what can happen when a city does not support their hockey team. In an era where hockey has become a business rather than sport and loyalty is based on how long you can remain profitable, one city's problems became another city's success.
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In 470 appearances for the Calgary Flames®, Iginla has scored 174 goals, and added 189 assists. Among his 2001-2002 accomplishments, Iginla led the league in goal scoring (52) and in points (96), and led the Flames in plus/minus (+27), all contributing to his nominations for the NHL’s prestigious Hart Trophy, an honor bestowed upon the NHL player designated most valuable to his team, and the Lester B. Pearson Award, awarded to the NHL’s most outstanding player as voted by members of the NHLPA. Iginla has ... earned the Art Ross Trophy as the League's leading scorer and the Maurice Richard Trophy as the top goal scorer in the NHL.
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The Calgary Flames, unable to make the playoffs for a fourth straight year, cleaned house Tuesday. The team fired GM Al Coates and director of player personnel Nick Polano. President Ron Bremner said head coach Brian Sutter and assistant Rich Preston would not be offered contract extensions.
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The Flames hockey team was actually born thousands of miles from Calgary. In 1972 a Georgia based group headed by Tom Cousins brought hockey to the South, with the Atlanta Flames. The team selected Bill Putnam as the president and hired Cliff Fletcher to run the hockey operations as general manager. The Flames began play in an NHL that was facing stiff competition from the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was making inroads within the United States. The Flames put forth competitive clubs, missing the playoffs only twice in their first eight NHL campaigns. In 1980 the team was sold for $16 million to Vancouver businessman Nelson Skalbania and his Calgary based partners.
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The Calgary Flames signed veteran blueliner Anders Eriksson to a two-year contract. This’ll be the sixth NHL team for the much-traveled Eriksson and could be considered a replacement for Andrei Zyuzin, whom the Flames dealt to Chicago last month for Adrian Aucoin.
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