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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 ...
Quebec selected Alain Cote in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft.; Trade completed on June 14, 1979. Trade completed on August 16, 1979. Minnesota's second-round pick went to Calgary as the result of a trade on June 7, 1982 that sent Willi Plett and Calgary's fourth-round pick in 1982 NHL Entry Draft to Minnesota in exchange for Steve Christoff, Bill Nyrop and this pick.
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.
1.2 NHL Expansion Draft. ... Toggle Transactions subsection. 5.1 Trades. ... The 1972–73 Atlanta Flames season was the inaugural season for the Flames' franchise.
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 ...
The following is a list of all team-to-team transactions that have occurred in the National Hockey League during the 1972–73 NHL season. It lists what team each player has been traded to, signed by, or claimed by, and for which player(s) or draft pick (s), if applicable.
The Calgary Flames traded left wings Andrei Kuzmenko and Jakob Pelletier to the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night for center Morgan Frost and left wing Joel Farabee. Calgary also sent a second ...
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 .