Rewind the tape🔥 On March 13th & 15th we’re throwing it back to 2001 and honouring the Saint John Flames!! This jersey marks 25 years since that historic Calder Cup victory and celebrates 90 seasons of The AHL!! 🎟️ calgarywranglers.com/single-game-ti…
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Wranglers to wear Saint John Flames throwback jerseys for two games
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By Mike Gould
Feb 23, 2026, 19:30 ESTUpdated: Feb 23, 2026, 18:18 EST
The Calgary Wranglers will throw it back by 25 years for a pair of home games next month.
On Monday, the Wranglers announced that they will wear special Saint John Flames jerseys for their games against the Manitoba Moose at the Saddledome on Mar. 13 and 15.
The jerseys are intended to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Saint John winning the Calder Cup against the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in 2001, which remains the only AHL championship in the history of the Flames’ top affiliate to date.
The Flames’ farm team has been located in many different places across North America over the past few decades, but it enjoyed some of its greatest success — and had one of their most memorable logos, a fire-breathing dragon — in Saint John, its base of operations from 1993 to 2003.
The Wranglers debuted the jerseys with an announcement and video on Monday. Similar in construction to the Wranglers’ existing alternate uniforms, the Saint John throwbacks instead use the stylized dragon logo as the primary crest. (The Wranglers have confirmed to FlamesNation that Saint John replica jerseys will be available for purchase).
During the franchise’s tenure in New Brunswick, the AHL Flames won two division titles and developed the likes of Cory Stillman, Chris Clark, Martin St. Louis, Steve Begin, and Matthew Lombardi. The 2000-01 iteration of the club was led by Marty Murray, Sergei Varlamov, Rico Fata, Daniel Tkaczuk, Derrick Walser, and the goaltending tandem of Martin Brochu and Levente Szuper.
Coached by Jim Playfair, the 2000-01 Flames went 44-24-7-5 in the regular season and entered the playoffs as the No. 1 seed before defeating the Portland Pirates, Quebec Citadelles, and Providence Bruins in the first three rounds. They then toppled the Penguins in six games to win their first and only Calder Cup.
The Saint John Flames have relocated multiple times over the past two decades to become the Wranglers, who have operated out of the Saddledome on a permanent basis since 2022. In the years between, they existed somewhat nomadically as the Omaha Ak-Sar Ben Knights (2005-2007), Quad City Flames (2007-2009), Abbotsford Heat (2009-2014), Adirondack Flames (2014-2015), and Stockton Heat (2015-2022).
Now in their fourth season of existence as the Wranglers, the Flames’ farm team currently sits in ninth place in the AHL’s Pacific Division with a 19-20-10-2 record and 50 points through 51 games this season. The top seven of the 10 Pacific Division teams will qualify for the 2026 Calder Cup Playoffs.
(External link: In 2021, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Saint John Flames’ Calder Cup win, I had the opportunity to speak with Saint John play-by-play announcer Andy Campbell to recap their championship run. You can read that article here.)
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