The Flames were the result of the NHL's first preemptive strike against the upstart World Hockey Association. In December 1971, the NHL hastily granted a team to Long Island - the New York Islanders - in order to keep the WHA's New York Raiders out of the brand new Nassau Coliseum. Needing another team to balance the schedule, the NHL awarded a team to the same group that owned the NBA's Atlanta Hawks, headed by businessman Tom Cousins. Cousins named the team the "Flames" after the fire resulting from the March to the Sea.

Some observers thought it was ludicrous to put an NHL team in Atlanta. However, the Flames were very successful early on, at least by the standards of expansion teams. The Flames had a good core of stars who helped them make the playoffs in six of eight seasons in Atlanta, a mark bettered only by the Quebec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and New York Rangers. In marked contrast, their expansion brethren, the Islanders, compiled two of the worst seasons in NHL history during their first two years in the league.

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Despite the on-ice success, the Atlanta ownership was never on sound financial footing. Part of the reason was that the Flames' home arena, The Omni, was one of the last arenas to be built without revenue-producing luxury boxes. The Flames were also victims of their own early success, which resulted in several low draft picks. At the same time, the Islanders used high draft picks resulting from their first two wretched seasons to put together the core of a team that would win four Stanley Cups in a row in the early 1980s.

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The original Flames logo, used during 1980-1994. A black border was added in 1995.This early success was not soon repeated. After a losing record in 1981-82, general manager Cliff Fletcher jettisoned several former Atlanta players unused to a higher-pressure hockey environment and rebuilt the roster. Over the next three seasons, he put together a core of players that would remain together through the early 1990s. His efforts to match the gifted Edmonton Oilers, though not wholly successful, led him to draw talent from areas previously neglected by the NHL. The Flames were one of the first teams to sign large numbers of U.S. college players, including Joel Otto, Gary Suter, and Colin Patterson. Fletcher also stepped up the search for European hockey talent, acquiring Hakan Loob and other key players. He was among the first to draft players from the Soviet Union, including CSKA Moscow star Sergei Makarov, but Soviet players were not released to Western teams until 1989. Still, the team was sufficiently improved to challenge the Oilers, who required the maximum seven games to defeat the Flames en route to their 1984 championship.

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On March 7, 1988, the Flames traded away young future super-star Brett Hull along with Steve Bozek to the St. Louis Blues for Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley. In hindsight, it looked like a bad trade as Hull came out of his shell with St. Louis and became one of the best pure goal scorers in NHL history. But at that time, the acquisition of Wamsley and Ramage helped them win their first Stanley Cup in 1989 against the Canadiens. After the Cup win, veteran captain Lanny McDonald retired to end his career with a Stanley Cup celebration. This victory was especially significant in that it marked the second time that an opposing team won the Stanley Cup on Montreal Forum ice (the first being the New York Rangers in 1928, against the Montreal Maroons), and the first time against the storied Canadiens.

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Calgary Flames winning the Stanley Cup in 1989In 1989, thanks in part to Fletcher's diplomatic efforts, the Soviets finally gave permission for a select group of Soviet hockey players to sign with NHL teams. The first of these players was Sergei Priakin, a forward who joined the Flames in time for their 1989 playoff run. Priakin never became an NHL regular, but his arrival blazed a trail for the large numbers of Russian players who entered the NHL beginning in 1989-90. Sergei Makarov joined the Flames that season and, though already in his thirties, won the Calder Trophy for rookie of the year. It was Fletcher's last great contribution to NHL hockey and to the Flames. In 1991, he left the team to become general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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They rebounded to make the playoffs for the next three seasons in a row, including two consecutive division titles. However, they failed to get out of the first round in either year. More importantly, the Flames found it increasingly difficult to hold onto their best players as salaries escalated in the 90s. Most of the NHL's Canadian teams (aside from Montreal and Toronto) found it difficult to compete in the new environment. As a result, the collapse was swift and total. In 1996, a year after winning their second consecutive division title, the Flames missed the playoffs and would not return for seven years. As an example of the difficulties the once-proud franchise faced during this time, they had to trade Fleury midway through the 1998-99 season rather than lose him to free agency. More ominously, the Flames were almost forced to move across the border after being among the league's attendance leaders for much of the 80s and early 90s. One of the few bright spots in this stretch was Jarome Iginla.

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After seven consecutive seasons out of the playoffs, the Flames returned to glory in 2004, surprising the hockey world by defeating all three Western Conference division champions to become the first Canadian team in a decade to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Flames' first victim was the Northwest Division winners, the Vancouver Canucks, in seven games. It was the Flames' first playoff series win since 1989. Then, they shocked the Detroit Red Wings, who had garnered the league's best record that season, in six games.

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After eliminating the Pacific Division champs, the San Jose Sharks, in six games in the Western Conference finals, the Flames earned a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals to face the Tampa Bay Lightning. By this time, practically all of Canada had thrown immense support behind the Cinderella-story Flames, who had now become a hockey-mad country's first chance to win the Stanley Cup since the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. The Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. flew the Flames flag beside the Maple Leaf, as did San Jose's city hall (after the Sharks lost the series, the Mayor of San Jose declared his city hall the world headquarters of Flames fans.) Calgary especially exploded in a non-stop fit of partying unprecedented in the normally conservative city (see "The Red Mile" below). The final series went to seven games, with the Flames suffering a controversial non-goal in game six at home. After winning game 6 in double overtime, Tampa Bay Lightning went on to hold the Flames to only 7 shots in the first two periods in game 7. The Flames went on to a late surge, but it was too little too late as they lost game 7 on June 7, 2004 by a score of 2-1.

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Both of Tampa Bay's goals were scored by Ruslan Fedotenko. Interestingly, all of Calgary's series winning goals during the playoffs were scored by Martin Gelinas. He also "scored" what many Flames fans believed was the go-ahead goal late in game 6, however the the officials did not signal it a goal, and the play was not reviewed. Prior to the 2005-06 season, Gelinas left the Flames as a free agent.