5 random players you forgot were on the Calgary Flames

2. Doug Mohns

When Mohns passed away in 2014, his New York Times obituary featured a photo of him posing in his Atlanta Flames uniform. But the subsequent text could not get away from his protracted, enriched tenures with a pair of Original Six teams.

A Bruin for 11 years, then a Blackhawk for seven, Mohns was one of the last holdovers from the NHL’s so-called Golden Era by the mid-’70s.

As Bruce Weber wrote in the aforementioned Times, Mohns was “Agile, swift and sturdy on the ice.” In addition, Weber continued, “he was, in the early 1950s, among the first wave of players to adopt the slap shot.” And he regularly partnered with Stan Mikita as part of the Blackhawks “Scooter Line.”

With Boston, the two-way connoisseur was a top-five Norris Trophy candidate in 1956-57 and a Hart Trophy candidate in 1961-62. With Chicago, Mohns peaked on his production curve with 60 points in 1966-67, the NHL’s last season before modern expansion began.

His only season with the Flames in 1973-74 was his 21st in the NHL, the franchise’s second. Pushing 40, Mohns mustered 28 games on the Atlanta blue line, easily the fewest in any of his 22 campaigns.

He was comparatively more prominent in Minnesota over the two years before and in Washington afterward. With 162 and 75 games respectively, Mohns’ North Star and Capital output dwarfed his Flames flicker. He also went to his seventh and final NHL All-Star Game in 1972 as a Minnesota representative, and later served as the first Capitals captain.