Calgary Flames Trivia
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59 free Calgary Flames trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Calgary Flames were named for the burning of Atlanta, moved north in 1980, and spent the rest of the decade trading haymakers with Gretzky's Oilers before finally lifting the Stanley Cup in 1989. This Flames trivia quiz covers all of it: Nelson Skalbania and the Stampede Corral, Cliff Fletcher drafting Soviets, Steve Smith's own goal, back-to-back Presidents' Trophies, the Brett Hull trade, Lanny McDonald's farewell, Sergei Makarov's controversial Calder, the Doug Gilmour blockbuster and the season-ticket ultimatum of 1999. It then follows Jarome Iginla from the Joe Nieuwendyk trade to 500 goals, Darryl Sutter and Miikka Kiprusoff, the 2004 run past three division champions and the Gelinas non-goal, the Red Mile, the Heritage Classic shutout, Gaudreau and Tkachuk, the Battle of Alberta rematch, and Harvey the Hound losing his tongue. Easy questions sit beside genuinely hard ones about the Atlanta era and the Saddledome. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and reference sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation. For more, try our NHL trivia and hockey trivia pages.
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Q 01Which other expansion team entered the NHL alongside the Flames in 1972?
New York Islanders
New York Islanders. The NHL rushed both teams into existence to keep the rival World Hockey Association out of Atlanta and Long Island.
Q 02The 'Flames' name refers to a fire set by whose troops during the Civil War?
General William Tecumseh Sherman
General William Tecumseh Sherman. His army burned Atlanta in 1864, yet the name survived the move to Canada, where a flaming C simply replaced the flaming A.
Q 03Which Canadian entrepreneur led the purchase of the Flames in 1980 and moved them to Calgary?
Nelson Skalbania
Nelson Skalbania. He sold his shares a year later to his Calgary partners, and the club has been locally owned ever since.
Q 04Which small arena hosted the Flames' first three seasons in Calgary?
Stampede Corral
Stampede Corral. The rink was far too small for the NHL, so the city built the Saddledome and the Flames moved in during 1983.
Q 05Which CSKA Moscow star did Cliff Fletcher draft in 1983, years before Soviets could join the NHL?
Sergei Makarov
Sergei Makarov. He finally arrived in 1989 and was voted rookie of the year as a veteran, which pushed the NHL to bar players over 26 from the award.
Q 06Whose errant clearing attempt bounced in off his own goalie to give Calgary the 1986 series win over Edmonton?
Steve Smith
Steve Smith's clearing pass struck his own goaltender and went in. The goal was credited to Perry Berezan, the last Flame to touch it, and it ended Edmonton's bid for a third straight Cup.
Q 07Which team beat the Flames in seven games in the 2004 Stanley Cup Final?
Tampa Bay Lightning
The Tampa Bay Lightning won Game 6 in Calgary in double overtime on a goal by Martin St. Louis, whom the Flames had let go four years earlier, then took Game 7 2–1 at home.
Q 08Which rookie scored 51 goals for Calgary in 1987–88?
Joe Nieuwendyk
Joe Nieuwendyk finished two goals short of the rookie record of the day, Mike Bossy's 53. Calgary had drafted him with a pick it got by trading away scoring star Kent Nilsson.
Q 09Whom did the Flames send to St. Louis in 1988 for Rob Ramage and Rick Wamsley?
Brett Hull and Steve Bozek
Brett Hull and Steve Bozek went to the Blues in March 1988. Ramage helped Calgary win the 1989 Cup, but Hull went on to score 86 goals for St. Louis in 1990–91.
Q 10Which Calgary-born goaltender backstopped the Flames to the 1989 Stanley Cup?
Mike Vernon
Mike Vernon led the NHL with 37 wins that season and added 16 more in the playoffs. Calgary traded him away in 1994, and three years later he won a second Cup as playoff MVP.
Q 11Whom did the Flames beat in the 1989 Stanley Cup Final?
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens had beaten Calgary in the 1986 Final. Three years later the Flames clinched in Game 6 at the Forum, the only time a visiting team has beaten the Canadiens for the Cup on that ice.
Q 12What was Sonia Scurfield's role with the Flames when she became the first Canadian woman engraved on the Stanley Cup?
Co-owner
Co-owner: her husband Ralph, one of the team's original Calgary owners, was killed while heli-skiing in 1985 and his share passed to her. Only one woman's name had been engraved on the Cup before hers.
Q 13Which head coach led the Flames to their only Stanley Cup in 1989?
Terry Crisp
Q 21Whose possible go-ahead goal for Calgary in Game 6 of the 2004 Final was never signalled by the referees?
Martin Gelinas
Martin Gelinas had already scored the series-winning goal in each of the first three rounds. This one came off his skate and play simply carried on; Calgary lost in overtime with the Cup one win away.
Q 22Which street became known as the 'Red Mile' during the 2004 playoff run?
17th Avenue SW
17th Avenue SW drew tens of thousands of fans in red after games that spring. The party had moved from 11th Avenue's 'Electric Avenue', the bar strip where an earlier generation celebrated the 1980s playoff runs.
Q 23Which two trophies did the Flames' goaltender win in 2005-06?
Vezina and Jennings
Terry Crisp had already won two Cups as a Flyers player in the 1970s. A year after adding a third behind Calgary's bench, he was out of a job following a first-round loss to Los Angeles.
Q 14Which former 50-goal scorer came from Toronto in the 1992 ten-player trade that sent Doug Gilmour away?
Gary Leeman
Gary Leeman had scored 51 for the Leafs two seasons earlier but managed only 11 goals in Calgary, while Gilmour piled up 127 points for Toronto the very next season.
Q 15Which trade in 1995-96 brought Jarome Iginla to Calgary?
Joe Nieuwendyk to Dallas
Joe Nieuwendyk to Dallas brought back Corey Millen and Iginla, an 18-year-old prospect. Both sides won: Nieuwendyk was playoff MVP of the Stars' 1999 Cup run, and Iginla became Calgary's all-time leading scorer.
Q 16Which team acquired Theoren Fleury from Calgary in 1999?
Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche gave up René Corbet, Wade Belak and an 18-year-old prospect, Robyn Regehr, who went on to play 11 seasons on Calgary's blue line.
Q 17What did Flames owners threaten in 2000 unless fans bought 14,000 season tickets?
The team would move to the United States
The team would move to the United States, owners warned as rallies were held to sell seats. Fans hit the target just under the wire, and a Calgary company that joined the drive put its name on the Saddledome.
Q 18Besides the players' Pearson Award, which two trophies did Jarome Iginla win in 2001–02?
Rocket Richard and Art Ross
Rocket Richard and Art Ross: his 52 goals and 96 points both led the NHL, on a team that missed the playoffs. He tied José Théodore in Hart Trophy voting and lost the MVP award on first-place votes.
Q 19Which of the Sutter brothers coached the Flames to the 2004 Stanley Cup Final?
Darryl Sutter
Darryl Sutter ended a run of seven straight seasons out of the playoffs and got the Flames within one win of the Cup. Two of his brothers, Brian and Brent, have also coached the team.
Q 20Which team, the NHL's best in the 2003–04 regular season, did the sixth-seeded Flames eliminate?
Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings went out in six games, shut out in the last two. With Vancouver and San Jose also beaten, Calgary knocked out all three Western division winners on its way to the Final.
Vezina and Jennings: he was voted the NHL's best goalie and Calgary allowed the fewest goals in the league. The Flames still went out in the first round, beaten in seven games by Anaheim.
Q 24Which Flames backup goalie was ejected from a 2007 playoff game for slashing Johan Franzen?
Jamie McLennan
Jamie McLennan had been in the net for all of 18 seconds when he swung his stick. Franzen got the last word a night later, scoring the double-overtime goal that knocked Calgary out.
Q 25Whose franchise mark of 803 games did Iginla pass in 2007-08?
Al MacInnis
Al MacInnis, playoff MVP of the 1989 Cup run, played 803 games for Calgary before a 1994 trade to St. Louis. Iginla passed him in his 11th season and went on to 1,219.
Q 26Where did the Flames win 4–0 outdoors in the 2011 Heritage Classic?
McMahon Stadium
McMahon Stadium, a football ground, held 41,022 in -8.6°C cold. The puck bounced on the outdoor ice, yet Calgary's goalie stopped all 39 shots.
Q 27Boston thought it had a deal for Jarome Iginla in March 2013, but which team actually acquired him?
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins won out because Iginla, who had a say over any trade, wanted to play with Sidney Crosby. Two months later Boston swept Pittsburgh out of the playoffs.
Q 28Which college honour did Johnny Gaudreau collect days before his NHL debut in 2014?
Hobey Baker Award
The Hobey Baker Award had barely been handed to the Boston College star when he signed with Calgary the same day. In his first NHL game he scored the Flames' only goal in a 5–1 loss to Vancouver.
Q 29Which coach won the 2015 Jack Adams Award after Calgary's first playoff series win since 2004?
Bob Hartley
Bob Hartley took a rebuilding team to its first playoff series win in 11 years, over Vancouver. One season later the Flames missed the playoffs and replaced him.
Q 30Which trio made up Calgary's '3M Line'?
Tkachuk, Backlund and Frolik
Tkachuk, Backlund and Frolik: a teenage rookie named Matthew alongside a Mikael and a Michael. The line helped Calgary back into the playoffs in 2017, where Anaheim swept them.