5.20.2009

"The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada."

"The team was founded in 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Flames, and moved to Calgary in 1980."

"The Flames were the result of the NHL's first pre-emptive strike against the upstart World Hockey Association.[3] In December 1971, the NHL hastily granted a team to Long Island—the New York Islanders—to keep the WHA's New York Raiders out of the brand new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Needing another team to balance the schedule, the NHL awarded a team to an Atlanta-based group that owned the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks, headed by prominent local real estate developer Tom Cousins.[4] Cousins named the team the "Flames" after the fire resulting from the March to the Sea in the American Civil War by General William Tecumseh Sherman, in which Atlanta was nearly destroyed. They played home games in the Omni Coliseum in downtown Atlanta.[5]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calgary_Flames

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