# 1999–2000 Calgary Flames season

The 1999–2000 Calgary Flames season was the 20th National Hockey League season in Calgary. It featured a very young line-up, as befitted the "Young Guns" slogan the team was using at the time. Twenty-nine-year-old Steve Dubinsky was the oldest forward on the team when the season started. The Flames were pitting their hopes for ending their playoff drought on the off-season acquisition of 37-year-old goaltender Grant Fuhr.
The season started with young sniper Jarome Iginla holding out, as he was unable to come to a contract agreement with General Manager Al Coates. Despite lacking a contract, Iginla attended training camp, however he missed the first two games of the season before a deal could be reached.
The Flames youth led to an inconsistent team, often bouncing between long winning and losing streaks. It took the Flames 20 games to win their first game in regulation time, however the team would break an NHL record on January 21, 2000 by winning their eighth overtime game. At the end of the season the Flames set an NHL record by winning ten games in overtime. The Flames also struggled with injuries all season, losing 479 man-games to injury, and using a total of 45 players over the course of 1999–2000. As a result, the Flames would finish last in the Northwest Division, missing the playoffs for the fourth straight year.
Following the season, the Flames cleaned house, firing Coates, and announcing they would not be offering head coach Brian Sutter and assistant coach Rich Preston new contracts.
On the bright side for the Flames, two players were selected to participate in the 2000 NHL All Star Game, as Phil Housley represented the North American team, while Valeri Bure represented the European team.
Rookie defenceman Robyn Regehr became the youngest nominee for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy in NHL history after he survived a serious car accident over the summer of 1999 that left him with two broken legs. Regehr would play 57 games for the Flames, but would not win the award.
Prior to the season, the Flames lost right winger Ed Ward to the Atlanta Thrashers in the 1999 NHL Expansion Draft. The Flames also dealt Andreas Karlsson to the Thrashers in exchange for promises not to select certain unprotected players.

## Regular season
### Season standings

Northwest Division :
| No. | CR | | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | 3 | Colorado Avalanche | 82 | 42 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 233 | 201 | 96 |
| 2 | 7 | Edmonton Oilers | 82 | 32 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 226 | 212 | 88 |
| 3 | 10 | Vancouver Canucks | 82 | 30 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 227 | 237 | 83 |
| 4 | 12 | Calgary Flames | 82 | 31 | 36 | 10 | 5 | 211 | 256 | 77 |
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; PIM = Penalties in minutes; Pts = Points Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
Western Conference :
| R | | Div | GP | W | L | T | OTL | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | p – St. Louis Blues | CEN | 82 | 51 | 19 | 11 | 1 | 248 | 165 | 114 |
| 2 | y – Dallas Stars | PAC | 82 | 43 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 211 | 184 | 102 |
| 3 | y – Colorado Avalanche | NW | 82 | 42 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 233 | 201 | 96 |
| 4 | Detroit Red Wings | CEN | 82 | 48 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 278 | 210 | 108 |
| 5 | Los Angeles Kings | PAC | 82 | 39 | 27 | 12 | 4 | 245 | 228 | 94 |
| 6 | Phoenix Coyotes | PAC | 82 | 39 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 232 | 228 | 90 |
| 7 | Edmonton Oilers | NW | 82 | 32 | 26 | 16 | 8 | 226 | 212 | 88 |
| 8 | San Jose Sharks | PAC | 82 | 35 | 30 | 10 | 7 | 225 | 214 | 87 |
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| 9 | Mighty Ducks of Anaheim | PAC | 82 | 34 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 217 | 227 | 83 |
| 10 | Vancouver Canucks | NW | 82 | 30 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 227 | 237 | 83 |
| 11 | Chicago Blackhawks | CEN | 82 | 33 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 242 | 245 | 78 |
| 12 | Calgary Flames | NW | 82 | 31 | 36 | 10 | 5 | 211 | 256 | 77 |
| 13 | Nashville Predators | CEN | 82 | 28 | 40 | 7 | 7 | 199 | 240 | 70 |
Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific, NW – Northwest
bold – Qualified for playoffs; p – Won Presidents' Trophy; y – Won division

## Schedule and results

1999–2000 regular season :
October: 3–8–2–0 (home: 0–3–2–0; road: 3–5–0–0)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
1October 2Calgary3 – 5San Jose0–1–0–00Recap
2October 6St. Louis4 – 1Calgary0–2–0–00Recap
3October 8Montreal4 – 1Calgary0–3–0–00Recap
4October 11Carolina3 – 3CalgaryOT0–3–1–01Recap
5October 13Calgary4 – 3VancouverOT1–3–1–03Recap
6October 15Los Angeles4 – 1Calgary1–4–1–03Recap
7October 16Vancouver4 – 4CalgaryOT1–4–2–04Recap
8October 19Calgary1 – 7St. Louis1–5–2–04Recap
9October 22Calgary3 – 2FloridaOT2–5–2–06Recap
10October 23Calgary1 – 2Tampa Bay2–6–2–06Recap
11October 26Calgary1 – 2Atlanta2–7–2–06Recap
12October 28Calgary4 – 3OttawaOT3–7–2–08Recap
13October 30Calgary1 – 2Toronto3–8–2–08Recap :
November: 5–6–0–0 (home: 5–2–0–0; road: 0–4–0–0)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
14November 3Nashville4 – 5CalgaryOT4–8–2–010Recap
15November 6Florida6 – 3Calgary4–9–2–010Recap
16November 10San Jose3 – 4CalgaryOT5–9–2–012Recap
17November 13Colorado5 – 2Calgary5–10–2–012Recap
18November 16Calgary1 – 2Phoenix5–11–2–012Recap
19November 17Calgary1 – 2Anaheim5–12–2–012Recap
20November 19Detroit1 – 3Calgary6–12–2–014Recap
21November 23NY Islanders2 – 3Calgary7–12–2–016Recap
22November 25Chicago1 – 2CalgaryOT8–12–2–018Recap
23November 27Calgary1 – 7Colorado8–13–2–018Recap
24November 30Calgary3 – 4Carolina8–14–2–018Recap :
December: 8–2–3–1 (home: 4–1–1–0; road: 4–1–2–1)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
25December 2Calgary5 – 0NY Islanders9–14–2–020Recap
26December 4Calgary4 – 2New Jersey10–14–2–022Recap
27December 6Calgary2 – 3NY RangersOT10–14–2–123Recap
28December 7Calgary3 – 3MontrealOT10–14–3–124Recap
29December 10Vancouver2 – 3Calgary11–14–3–126Recap
30December 12Calgary2 – 1Chicago12–14–3–128Recap
31December 14Calgary1 – 1St. LouisOT12–14–4–129Recap
32December 15Calgary1 – 5Dallas12–15–4–129Recap
33December 18Ottawa1 – 2Calgary13–15–4–131Recap
34December 21Dallas0 – 0CalgaryOT13–15–5–132Recap
35December 23Edmonton1 – 2Calgary14–15–5–134Recap
36December 26Calgary2 – 0Vancouver15–15–5–136Recap
37December 27Philadelphia5 – 1Calgary15–16–5–136Recap
38December 29Anaheim1 – 3Calgary16–16–5–138Recap :
January: 7–6–0–0 (home: 6–0–0–0; road: 1–6–0–0)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
39January 2Vancouver2 – 4Calgary17–16–5–140Recap
40January 5Calgary0 – 4Colorado17–17–5–140Recap
41January 6Calgary2 – 5Chicago17–18–5–140Recap
42January 8Tampa Bay2 – 3CalgaryOT18–18–5–142Recap
43January 12Dallas1 – 2Calgary19–18–5–144Recap
44January 15Toronto0 – 4Calgary20–18–5–146Recap
45January 18Detroit1 – 6Calgary21–18–5–148Recap
46January 19Calgary0 – 7Edmonton21–19–5–148Recap
47January 21Nashville4 – 5CalgaryOT22–19–5–150Recap
48January 24Calgary4 – 3BostonOT23–19–5–152Recap
49January 26Calgary1 – 2Washington23–20–5–152Recap
50January 28Calgary1 – 4Detroit23–21–5–152Recap
51January 29Calgary1 – 3Nashville23–22–5–152Recap :
February: 3–3–2–4 (home: 2–1–2–1; road: 1–2–0–3)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
52February 1St. Louis5 – 4CalgaryOT23–22–5–253Recap
53February 3Chicago5 – 5CalgaryOT23–22–6–254Recap
54February 9Calgary3 – 4VancouverOT23–22–6–355Recap
55February 10Calgary2 – 3Colorado23–23–6–355Recap
56February 12Calgary3 – 4Phoenix23–24–6–355Recap
57February 14Calgary3 – 4Los AngelesOT23–24–6–456Recap
58February 16Calgary5 – 6AnaheimOT23–24–6–557Recap
59February 18Edmonton2 – 4Calgary24–24–6–559Recap
60February 19Calgary3 – 2EdmontonOT25–24–6–561Recap
61February 23Los Angeles7 – 2Calgary25–25–6–561Recap
62February 25Phoenix3 – 3CalgaryOT25–25–7–562Recap
63February 26Atlanta2 – 5Calgary26–25–7–564Recap :
March: 4–8–2–0 (home: 2–5–1–0; road: 2–3–1–0)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
64March 1Pittsburgh2 – 8Calgary27–25–7–566Recap
65March 3Anaheim1 – 4Calgary28–25–7–568Recap
66March 5New Jersey2 – 2CalgaryOT28–25–8–569Recap
67March 7Colorado8 – 3Calgary28–26–8–569Recap
68March 9Toronto6 – 2Calgary28–27–8–569Recap
69March 11Calgary1 – 3Los Angeles28–28–8–569Recap
70March 13Calgary3 – 5San Jose28–29–8–569Recap
71March 15Ottawa3 – 1Calgary28–30–8–569Recap
72March 18Buffalo5 – 1Calgary28–31–8–569Recap
73March 19Calgary3 – 2Edmonton29–31–8–571Recap
74March 22Calgary2 – 2DetroitOT29–31–9–572Recap
75March 23Calgary2 – 4Buffalo29–32–9–572Recap
76March 25Calgary2 – 1Nashville30–32–9–574Recap
77March 31Phoenix3 – 1Calgary30–33–9–574Recap :
April: 1–3–1–0 (home: 1–2–0–0; road: 0–1–1–0)
GameDateVisitorScoreHomeOTRecordPtsRecap
78April 1San Jose0 – 3Calgary31–33–9–576Recap
79April 3Calgary2 – 2DallasOT31–33–10–577Recap
80April 5Calgary5 – 6St. Louis31–34–10–577Recap
81April 7Colorado3 – 1Calgary31–35–10–577Recap
82April 8Edmonton6 – 3Calgary31–36–10–577Recap :
Legend:
  Win (2 points)
  Loss (0 points)
  Tie (1 point)
  Overtime loss (1 point) :

## Player statistics
### Scoring

* Position abbreviations: C = Centre; D = Defence; G = Goaltender; LW = Left wing; RW = Right wing
* † = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Flames only.
* ‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Flames only.
| No. | Player | Pos | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season |
| No. | Player | Pos | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM |
| 8 | Valeri Bure | RW | 82 | 35 | 40 | 75 | −7 | 50 |
| 12 | Jarome Iginla | RW | 77 | 29 | 34 | 63 | 0 | 26 |
| 6 | Phil Housley | D | 78 | 11 | 44 | 55 | −12 | 24 |
| 27 | Marc Savard | C | 78 | 22 | 31 | 53 | −2 | 56 |
| 53 | Derek Morris | D | 78 | 9 | 29 | 38 | 2 | 80 |
| 62 | Andrei Nazarov | RW | 76 | 10 | 22 | 32 | 3 | 78 |
| 11 | Jeff Shantz | C | 74 | 13 | 18 | 31 | −13 | 30 |
| 24 | Jason Wiemer | LW | 64 | 11 | 11 | 22 | −10 | 120 |
| 23 | Clarke Wilm | C | 78 | 10 | 12 | 22 | −6 | 67 |
| 16 | Cory Stillman | C | 37 | 12 | 9 | 21 | −9 | 12 |
| 22 | Bill Lindsay | LW | 80 | 8 | 12 | 20 | −7 | 86 |
| 15 | Martin St. Louis | C | 56 | 3 | 15 | 18 | −5 | 22 |
| 17 | Hnat Domenichelli‡ | C | 32 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 12 |
| 20 | Rene Corbet‡ | LW | 48 | 4 | 10 | 14 | −7 | 60 |
| 28 | Robyn Regehr | D | 57 | 5 | 7 | 12 | −2 | 46 |
| 25 | Sergei Krivokrasov† | RW | 12 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | Tommy Albelin | D | 41 | 4 | 6 | 10 | −3 | 12 |
| 4 | Bobby Dollas† | D | 49 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 28 |
| 21 | Andreas Johansson† | LW | 28 | 3 | 7 | 10 | −3 | 14 |
| 2 | Darryl Shannon† | D | 27 | 1 | 8 | 9 | −13 | 22 |
| 32 | Cale Hulse‡ | D | 47 | 1 | 6 | 7 | −11 | 47 |
| 38 | Jeff Cowan | LW | 13 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 7 | Marc Bureau† | C | 9 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −3 | 2 |
| 55 | Steve Smith | D | 20 | 0 | 4 | 4 | −13 | 42 |
| 37 | Sergei Varlamov | RW | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | Steve Begin | C | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −3 | 18 |
| 3 | Denis Gauthier | D | 39 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −4 | 50 |
| 33 | Brad Werenka† | D | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −2 | 21 |
| 29 | Wade Belak | D | 40 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −4 | 122 |
| 26 | Travis Brigley‡ | LW | 17 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −6 | 4 |
| 39 | Benoit Gratton | LW | 10 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| 50 | Pavel Torgaev‡ | LW | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 17 | Chris Clark | RW | 22 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −3 | 14 |
| 18 | Steve Dubinsky | C | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −12 | 4 |
| 34 | Stewart Malgunas† | D | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 19 | Oleg Saprykin | C | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | −4 | 2 |
| 17 | Jason Botterill† | LW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | 0 |
| 40 | Fred Brathwaite | G | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 4 |
| 36 | Eric Charron | D | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 37 |
| 15 | Rico Fata | RW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 |
| 31 | Grant Fuhr | G | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 |
| 47 | Jean-Sebastien Giguere | G | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 |
| 25 | Dave Roche | LW | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 5 |
| 45 | Darrel Scoville | D | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 32 | Lee Sorochan | D | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Goaltending

| No. | Player | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season |
| No. | Player | GP | W | L | T | SA | GA | GAA | SV% | SO | TOI |
| 40 | Fred Brathwaite | 61 | 25 | 25 | 7 | 1664 | 158 | 2.75 | .905 | 5 | 3448 |
| 31 | Grant Fuhr | 23 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 536 | 77 | 3.83 | .856 | 0 | 1205 |
| 47 | Jean-Sebastien Giguere | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 175 | 15 | 2.72 | .914 | 0 | 330 |

## Awards and records
### Awards

| Type | Award/honour | Recipient |
| League (in-season) | NHL All-Star Game selection | Valeri Bure |
| League (in-season) | NHL All-Star Game selection | Phil Housley |
| League (in-season) | NHL Player of the Month | Jarome Iginla (February) |
| League (in-season) | NHL Player of the Week | Fred Brathwaite (December 27) |
| Team | Molson Cup | Fred Brathwaite |
| Team | Ralph T. Scurfield Humanitarian Award | Robyn Regehr |

### Milestones

| Milestone | Player | Date |
| First game | Oleg Saprykin | October 2, 1999 |
| First game | Robyn Regehr | October 28, 1999 |
| First game | Darrel Scoville | November 10, 1999 |
| First game | Chris Clark | January 12, 2000 |
| First game | Jeff Cowan | February 25, 2000 |

## Transactions

The Flames were involved in the following transactions during the 1999–2000 season.

### Trades

| June 26, 1999 | To Calgary Flames Marc Savard 1st round pick in 1999 | To New York Rangers Jan Hlavac 1st round pick in 1999 3rd round pick in 1999 |
| September 5, 1999 | To Calgary Flames Grant Fuhr | To St. Louis Blues 3rd round pick in 2000 |
| September 30, 1999 | To Calgary Flames Bill Lindsay | To Florida Panthers Todd Simpson |
| February 11, 2000 | To Calgary Flames Darryl Shannon Jason Botterill | To Atlanta Thrashers Hnat Domenichelli Dmitri Vlasenkov |
| March 6, 2000 | To Calgary Flames Marc Bureau | To Philadelphia Flyers Travis Brigley 6th round pick in 2001 |
| March 14, 2000 | To Calgary Flames Brad Werenka | To Pittsburgh Penguins Rene Corbet Tyler Moss |
| March 14, 2000 | To Calgary Flames Sergei Krivokrasov | To Nashville Predators Cale Hulse 3rd round pick in 2001 |
| June 10, 2000 | To Calgary Flames 2nd round draft pick in 2000 | To Mighty Ducks of Anaheim Jean-Sebastien Giguere |

### Free agents

| Player | Former team |
| Player | New team |
| Andrew Cassels | Vancouver Canucks |
| Ken Wregget | Detroit Red Wings |

## Draft picks

Calgary's picks at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft, held in Boston, Massachusetts. The Flames had the 9th overall pick, however they traded down two spots to get Marc Savard from the New York Rangers. With the 11th overall pick, the Flames drafted Oleg Saprykin.
| Rnd | Pick | Player | Nationality | Position | Team (league) | NHL statistics | NHL statistics | NHL statistics | NHL statistics | NHL statistics |
| Rnd | Pick | Player | Nationality | Position | Team (league) | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM |
| 1 | 11 | Oleg Saprykin | Russia | C | Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL) | 325 | 55 | 82 | 137 | 240 |
| 2 | 38 | Dan Cavanaugh | United States | C | Boston University (HE) | | | | | |
| 3 | 77 | Craig Anderson$^†$ | United States | G | Guelph Storm (OHL) | 406 | 182–148–2–48, 2.72GAA | 182–148–2–48, 2.72GAA | 182–148–2–48, 2.72GAA | 182–148–2–48, 2.72GAA |
| 4 | 106 | Rail Rozakov | Russia | D | Russia | | | | | |
| 5 | 135 | Matt Doman | United States | F | Wisconsin (NCAA) | | | | | |
| 6 | 153 | Jesse Cook | United States | D | Denver (NCAA) | | | | | |
| 6 | 166 | Cory Pecker | Canada | D | Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL) | | | | | |
| 6 | 170 | Matt Underhill | Canada | G | Cornell (NCAA) | 1 | 0–1–0–0, 3.93GAA | 0–1–0–0, 3.93GAA | 0–1–0–0, 3.93GAA | 0–1–0–0, 3.93GAA |
| 7 | 190 | Blair Stayzer | Canada | LW | Windsor Spitfires (OHL) | | | | | |
| 9 | 252 | Dmitri Kirilenko | Russia | RW | CSKA Moscow (RSL) | | | | | |
    Statistics are updated to the end of the 2014–15 NHL season. $^†$ denotes player was on an NHL roster in 2014–15.

## Farm teams
### Saint John Flames

The Baby Flames finished the 1999–2000 season with a .500 record at 32–32–11–5, good enough for 2nd place in the Atlantic Division. They would be swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Lowell Lock Monsters three games to none, however. Daniel Tkaczuk and Benoit Gratton led the team in points with 66 each, while Rico Fata led in goals with 29. Ten different goaltenders suited up for the Flames, led by Jean-Sebastien Giguere, who started 44 games.