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Some Flames Change Numbers, Some Do Not
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Ryan Pike
Jul 10, 2014, 17:30 EDTUpdated: Invalid DateTime
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Big news, everybody! Several Calgary Flames players have changed their jersey numbers!
In other news, several other players have not changed their numbers.
The important thing here – if you can call it that – is which players upgraded numbers.

NEWCOMERS

Four newcomers chose numbers.
Jonas Hiller will wear #1. It was previously worn most recently by Curtis McElhinney, and most famously by the likes of Roman Turek, Reggie Lemelin and Phil Myre.
Mason Raymond will wear #21. it was previously worn recently by Roman Horak, and most famously worn by Perry Berezan, Andrew Ference and Andrew Cassels.
Brandon Bollig will wear #25. It was most famously worn by Joe Nieuwendyk (and honoured this past spring), and worn since Nieuwendyk left town by a handful of players, most recently David Moss.
Deryk Engelland will wear #29. It was most famously Joel Otto’s number, and most recently worn by Akim Aliu and Reto Berra (who I completely forgot about).

KIDS

A pair of former Portland Winterhawks returned to their junior numbers.
Tyler Wotherspoon has moved from #56 to #26. He had a training camp number and proved to be a capable hockey player (even with a bum shoulder), so this is probably a good sign that he’s in the running for a roster spot.
Sven Baertschi went from #47 to #27, like Wotherspoon it was his junior number, but when he arrived Derek Smith had it, so he wore a training camp number until Smith left the organization.
Don’t consider these downgrades in jersey numbers as a guarantee of anything. Last season, Corban Knight (#10), Lance Bouma (#17) and Roman Horak (#21) got “regular” jersey numbers – one spent a year in the AHL, one got shipped off to Edmonton and the third made the team by virtue of blocking a zillion shots.
Still, it’s probably not a bad sign.

UPDATE: SMID & JONES

Not wanting to feel left out, Ladislav Smid has switched from #3 to #15 and David Jones has moved from #54 to #19, the number (Go) Blair Jones once had. Presumably they saw the equipment manager’s e-mail announcing the previous moves and asked if they, too, could swap numbers.
These numbers are even more minor than minor.

WHO’S WEARING WHAT?

For the curious, a broad look at who currently has claim to what jersey number.
  • 1: Jonas Hiller
  • 4: Kris Russell
  • 5: Mark Giordano
  • 6: Dennis Wideman
  • 7: T.J. Brodie
  • 8: Joe Colborne
  • 10: Corban Knight
  • 11: Mikael Backlund
  • 15: Ladislav Smid
  • 16: Brian McGrattan
  • 17: Lance Bouma
  • 18: Matt Stajan
  • 19: David Jones
  • 20: Curtis Glencross
  • 21: Mason Raymond
  • 23: Sean Monahan
  • 24: Jiri Hudler
  • 25: Brandon Bollig
  • 26: Tyler Wotherspoon
  • 27: Sven Baertschi
  • 29: Deryk Engelland
  • 31: Karri Ramo
  • 32: Paul Byron
  • 37: Joni Ortio
  • 42: Mark Cundari
  • 45: David Wolf
  • 46: Bill Arnold
  • 48: Bryce van Brabant
  • 49: John Ramage
  • 50: Patrick Sieloff
  • 51: Kenny Agostino
  • 52: Morgan Klimchuk
  • 53: Johnny Gaudreau
  • 57: Emile Poirier
  • 58: Ben Hanowski
  • 59: Max Reinhart
  • 60: Markus Granlund
  • 61: Brett Kulak
  • 62: Austin Carroll
  • 63: Sam Bennett
  • 65: Turner Elson
  • 67: Ryan Culkin
  • 68: Adam Ollas Mattsson
  • 71: Hunter Smith
  • 72: Mason McDonald
  • 73: Keegan Kanzig
  • 74: Brandon Hickey
  • 77: Mark Jankowski
  • 79: Michael Ferland
  • 82: Jon Gillies
  • 83: John Gilmour
  • 84: Eric Roy
  • 86: Josh Joorish
  • 95: Matthew Deblouw
  • 97: Tim Harrison
  • None Yet: Sena Acolatse, Brad Thiessen, Rushan Rafikov

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