FN's All-Time Greatest Flames Team: Joe Nieuwendyk

View more images like this View more B Bennett Bruce BennettThe tenth player on FlamesNation's All-Time Flames Team is no big surprise.

A Hockey Hall of Fame inductee and probably the best centerman in Calgary Flames history, Joe Nieuwendyk had a name that was hard to spell and relatively easy to pronounce. He also had a playing style that was easy to love but difficult to emulate - just ask Joe Colborne.

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For a lot of people that grew up in Calgary in the early 1990s, Joe Nieuwendyk was their favourite player on the Calgary Flames. Sure, there was the under-sized Theoren Fleury and the scrappy Gary Roberts, but their linemate was just such a fun player to watch. Drafted out…