A history of Flames numbers: #49, Hunter Shinkaruk
By Ari Yanover
7 years agoIs #49 going to stay Hunter Shinkaruk’s number? It just might; it should be fitting enough. He wore #9 in Medicine Hat, but that’s not exactly a number available here. He had #48 with the Vancouver Canucks, which, meh?
It just looks better for him to keep the number nine in some capacity, even if there has to be another number before it. And Shinkaruk really has the chance to make the number his own.
#49 on the Flames
Shinkaruk is the third player in Flames franchise history to wear #49:
- C Matthew Lombardi
- D Richie Regehr
- C Hunter Shinkaruk
The number is still very new to the Flames. Lombardi wore it during the 2003-04 seasons before he upgraded to #18; little Regehr wore it during his 20 games with the Flames, and that was it; and as or right now, it’s Shinkaruk’s.
The best #49
Obviously right now it’s Lombardi, with his 500+ NHL games and 250+ points (including a career high of 53 in the 2009-10 season). It’s be awesome to see Shinkaruk pass that, though – but there’s still a very long road ahead there.
Previous numbers
| #1 – Brian Elliott | #3 – Jyrki Jokipakka |
| #5 – Mark Giordano | #6 – Dennis Wideman |
| #7 – T.J. Brodie | #10 – Linden Vey |
| #11 – Mikael Backlund | #13 – Johnny Gaudreau |
| #15 – Ladislav Smid | #17 – Lance Bouma |
| #18 – Matt Stajan | #19 – Matthew Tkachuk |
| #23 – Sean Monahan | #25 – Freddie Hamilton |
| #26 – Tyler Wotherspoon | #27 – Dougie Hamilton |
| #28 – Emile Poirier | #29 – Deryk Engelland |
| #31 – Chad Johnson | #36 – Troy Brouwer |
| #39 – Alex Chiasson |
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