In the 102-year history of the National Hockey League, 348 individuals have played 1,000 or more regular season games. 44 of them, or 12.6%, have played some part of their career with the Atlanta or Calgary Flames. We call these players Long-Timers.
Let’s take a look at Martin St. Louis.
Originally from Laval, Quebec – a Montreal suburb – St. Louis eschewed the “normal” junior path and headed to college, where he spent four seasons at the University of Vermont (including two as captain). Undrafted, St. Louis played two-thirds of the 1997-98 with the IHL’s Cleveland Lumberjacks before the Flames signed him as a free agent and brought him to Saint John.