Do you remember Kevin Dahl?

Every week, we’ll look at a forgotten Calgary Flames player in the weekly series “A Flame From the Past.” Of course, the player had to have played a significant number of games for the Flames – at least a full season. Each week, I’ll put every Flames season (since moving to Calgary) in the Wheel of Names. This week, it landed on the 1997-98 season, with the player we’ll look at in today’s article being Kevin Dahl.

Everyone knows about the current Flames defenceman named Kevin Bahl, but in two different stints in the 1990s, the Flames had a defenceman named Kevin Dahl, who hails from Regina, Saskatchewan.

In 1985-86, the right-shot defenceman played for the Stratford Cullitons of the Mid-Western Junior Hockey League, a Junior B club. Dahl scored eight goals and 23 points in 29 games that season, and attended Bowling Green State University for the next four seasons.

Overall, he scored 21 goals and 98 points in 165 games, with his career-best season coming in his junior year, when he scored nine goals and 35 points. After Dahl’s sophomore season, he was drafted in the 11th round by the Montréal Canadiens in the 1988 draft.

Dahl started his professional career in the ECHL and the American Hockey League. With the Winston-Salem Thunderbirds of the ECHL, Dahl scored seven goals and 24 points in 36 games. He only scored a goal for the Fredericton Canadiens of the AHL, but managed to pick up 16 points in 32 games.

In 1991-92, Dahl played 13 games with the International Hockey League’s Salt Lake Golden Eagles, picking up two assists in 13 games. He also participated in the 1992 Olympics, scoring two goals en route to Canada’s gold medal. On top of that, he played 45 games with the Canadian National Team that season, scoring two goals and 17 points.

Finally, Dahl made his National Hockey League debut in 1992-93 with the Calgary Flames after signing with them in the off-season. In 61 games, he scored two goals and 11 points and picked up 56 penalty minutes along the way. Dahl picked up his two post-season points in this post-season, picking up two assists in six games.

In 1993-94, Dahl played 33 games with three assists, playing six more games in the post-season. He played a similar number of game in 1994-95, scoring four goals and 12 points in 34 games, his career-best year. His final season with the Flames in his first stint came in 1995-96, scoring a goal and two points in 32 games, splitting his time between the NHL and AHL.

Before the start of the 1996-97 season, Dahl signed with the Phoenix Coyotes, playing just two games with them that season where he was held pointless. Most of his playing time came with the IHL’s Las Vegas Thunder, where Dahl scored 10 goals and 31 points in 73 games.

Dahl returned to the Flames for the 1997-98 season, playing 19 games with one assist. Once again, most of his season was played in the minors, as he scored eight goals and 17 points in 45 games with the Chicago Wolves. In the IHL’s post-season, he scored a goal and nine points and won the Turner Cup.

The right-shot defenceman’s NHL career was essentially over by this point. In 1998-99, Dahl played three games with the Toronto Maple Leafs, playing most of the season with the Wolves. The entirety of the 1999-2000 season was spent with the Wolves, scoring a goal and 44 points in 27 games and playing three post-season games as they won the Turner Cup for the second time.

In 2000-01, Dahl played four games for the Columbus Blue Jackets, but spent most of his season with the Wolves once again. His final three seasons in hockey were spent with the 

Nürnberg Ice Tigers of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga, scoring a total of eight goals and 42 points in 216 games.

Overall, Dahl played 188 regular season games, scoring seven goals and 29 points. In 16 post-season games, he picked up two assists.