Matchsticks and Gasoline · Dec 2, 2020
Flames Best #20 Of All Time: Gary Suter
Photo by Graig Abel/Getty ImagesUnfortunately for lots of Flames players who share the same number over the course of time, the players who played in the 80’s and early 90’s dwarf anyone who came later. That’s the case with the #20, as Gary Suter has and always will have a strangle hold on this digit.
Suter came to the Flames with a very solid hockey pedigree, as his brother played on Team USA’s Miracle On Ice team in 1980. Gary would have a very good stint at the University of Wisconsin and the Flames took notice, drafting the defenceman in the 9th round of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft, despite Suter having been completely passed over during the 1983 Draft. Boy, was everyone wrong about him.