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The Flames have since used the Atlanta logo for both its alternate captains, [49] and the team's former affiliate that played in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Adirondack Flames. [50] The last Atlanta Flames player on the Calgary roster was Paul Reinhart, upon being traded to Vancouver Canucks after the 1987–88 season. The last active ...
The addition of three new NHL teams in Canada led the league to reconsider other Canadian cities it had previously rejected placing franchises in at the time. One year after the 1979 expansion, the Atlanta Flames relocated their franchise to Calgary, becoming Albertan archrivals of the Oilers in the process.
The Atlanta Flames were one of many expansion teams that brought the NHL from six teams in 1967 to 21 by 1979. The expansion era of the National Hockey League (NHL) began when six new teams were added for the 1967–68 season, ending the Original Six era.
The 1972 NHL expansion draft was held on June 6, 1972. The draft took place to fill the rosters of the league's two then-new expansion teams for the 1972–73 season , the New York Islanders and the Atlanta Flames .
The birth of the new franchise marked NHL hockey's return to Georgia after the Atlanta Flames, established in 1972, departed for Canada in 1980 to become the Calgary Flames. The Flames had been the League's first foray into the southern U.S., and their failure discouraged further efforts to bring NHL hockey south of Washington for another ...
Nelson Skalbania and his ownership group bought the franchise and moved it to Calgary on June 24, 1980, leaving Atlanta without an NHL franchise. [10] Since the Flames' relocation and rebranding as the Calgary Flames in 1980, ice hockey in Atlanta has been an interest of the NHL. [11] In 1997, the Atlanta Thrashers were founded as an expansion ...
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1980: Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary; Atlanta was awarded an expansion team in 1999, which moved to Winnipeg in 2011. 1982: Colorado Rockies moved to East Rutherford and became the New Jersey Devils; 13 years later, Denver received the Quebec Nordiques.