Jeff Reese played 26 games for the Flames in 1992-93, posting an impressive 14-4-1 record. The highlight of his time in Calgary came on February 10, 1993, when he entered the NHL record book by posting three assists in a 13-1 Flames victory over the San Jose Sharks.
Right winger Lanny McDonald played over 1,100 games during a 16-year career in which he scored 500 goals and over 1,000 points. His total of 66 goals in 1982-83 remains the Flames' franchise record for a single season. The Flames retired his #9 jersey in 1990, and he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992.
During his playing days, Tim Hunter was known for his fierce style of play, ranking him among hockey's elite enforcers during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1988-89, he set a Flames franchise record with 375 penalty minutes.
The Flames defeated the Canadiens in six games to win their first Stanley Cup in 1989.
Nicknamed "Iggy", Jarome Iginla led the NHL in goals and points in 2001-02, and won the Lester B. Pearson Award as its most valuable player as voted by the players. In 2003-04, Iginla led the league in goals for the second time and captained the Flames to the Stanley Cup Finals, leading the playoffs in goals.
Nicknamed "Killer" due to his physical style of play and an apparent likeness in appearance to serial killer Charles Manson, Doug Gilmour spent three and a half seasons with Calgary and scored the championship-winning goal in the 1989 Stanley Cup Finals.
Sergei Makarov was on the gold-winning Soviet national ice hockey team in the World Championships in 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1990. In 1989, he was allowed by the Soviet Union to join the National Hockey League and the Calgary Flames, winning the Calder Memorial Trophy as "rookie" of the year at the age of 31. As a result, a new rule was introduced (the Makarov Rule) so that only players under 26 qualify for the award.
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