As we pick players for these numbers, it’s easy to select the Flames legends because they are obvious. Sometimes it’s based on impact on the franchise. Sometimes it’s a fan favourite. Sometimes it’s just who’s there and fills the void. Well, #44 checks all the boxes, with the exception of the last one because he was a meaningful and impact player for the early 2000’s Flames. And that player, for #44, is former Flames defenceman Rhett Warrener.
Warrener was an already established NHL regular who had been to the Stanley Cup Finals twice already when he joined the Flames in the summer of 2003 by way of a trade.