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 Rob Niedermayer.
A product of British Columbia, Niedermayer came up in the Western Hockey League and plied his trade with the Medicine Hat Tigers. He was selected fifth overall by the Florida Panthers in the 1993 NHL Draft. (His old brother, Scott, was drafted two years prior and had an amazing hockey career.