Do you remember Jamie Lundmark?
Every week, we’ll look at a forgotten Calgary Flames player in the weekly series “A Flame From the Past.” Of course, the player had to have played a significant number of games for the Flames – at least a full season. Each week, I’ll put every Flames season (since moving to Calgary) in the Wheel of Names. This week, it landed on the 2008-09 season, with the player we’ll look at in today’s article being Jamie Lundmark.
Lundmark played two seasons with the Albert Junior Hockey League’s St. Albert Saints, scoring 33 goals and 91 points in 57 games in 1997-98. He played for the Western Hockey League’s Moose Jaw Warriors in 1998-99, scoring 40 goals and 91 points in 70 games, and was drafted ninth overall in the historically poor 1999 draft by the New York Rangers. In his final two seasons of junior, he scored 56 goals and 125 points in 89 games.
Things were seemingly on track for the Edmonton, Alberta native in his first season of professional hockey, scoring 27 goals and 59 points in 79 games with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League in 2001-02. Lundmark made his National Hockey League debut in 2002-03, scoring eight goals and 19 points in 55 games, which turned out to be one of his best seasons in the league.
In 2003-04 with the Rangers, he scored two goals and 10 points in 56 games. During the lockout year of 2004-05, he spent time between the Wolf Pack (scoring 14 goals and 41 points in 54 games) and Bolzano HC in Italy, scoring nine goals and 18 points in 14 games.
The 2005-06 season was his career-best year. After just three games with the Rangers where he scored a goal, he was traded to the Phoenix Coyotes where he scored five goals and 18 points in 38 games. Lundmark was on the move again, with the Flames acquiring him before the 2006 trade deadline. He finished the 2005-06 season scoring four goals and 10 points in 12 games for the Flames, giving him 10 goals and 20 points.
Unfortunately, Lundmark was unable to find the same success in the 39 games he played in 2006-07, picking up four assists, as the Flames sent him to the Los Angeles Kings for Craig Conroy in his second stint. In 29 games with the Kings in 2006-07, Lundmark scored seven goals and nine points, with 13 goals and 33 points in 51 AHL games.
Like Conroy, Lundmark returned for a second stint with the Flames, agreeing to a one-year, two-way deal with the team during the 2008 off-season. In the NHL, he scored eight goals and 16 points in 27 games in 2008-09, by far his best pace in a single season. He added 15 goals and 52 points in 54 AHL games.
Lundmark returned for the 2009-10 season, scoring four goals and nine points in 21 games, along with nine goals and 21 points in 32 AHL games. However, he was waived and claimed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, scoring a goal and three points in 15 games with the Leafs. That was the last NHL action he saw in his career.
Before the 2010-11 season, he signed a one-year deal with the Nashville Predators but played in the AHL where he had six goals and 18 points. Lundmark’s career in North America came to an end during the 2010-11 season, as he signed with Timrå IK of the Swedish Hockey League, scoring three goals and 10 points in 18 games.
Before the 2011-12 season, he signed with Riga Dynamo of the Kontinental Hockey League, scoring eight goals and 16 points in 47 games with the Latvian-based club. Before the 2012-13 season, he signed with Klagenfurt AC in Austria, scoring 29 goals and 58 points in 51 games in his first season winning the league’s Most Valuable Player award. Over the next five seasons with the Austrian team, Lundmark scored 91 goals and 205 points in 239 games, hanging up the skates on Mar. 20, 2018.
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