Kammala wannan magana: Fletcher kokarin daidaita da Oilers ya sa ya zana basira daga yankunan da NHL ta yi watsi da su a baya. The Flames sun kasance daga cikin kungiyoyin farko da suka sanya hannu kan manyan 'yan wasan kwalejin Amurka, gami da Joel Otto, Gary Suter da Colin Patterson. Fletcher kuma ya haɓaka neman ƙwararrun 'yan wasan hockey na Turai, yana samun Hakan Loob da sauran manyan' yan wasa. Ya kasance daga cikin na farko da ya zana 'yan wasa daga Tarayyar Soviet, gami da tauraron CSKA Moscow Sergei Makarov a
1983, amma 'yan wasan Soviet ba a sake su zuwa kungiyoyin kasashen yamma ba har zuwa 1989. Duk da haka, ƙungiyar ta inganta sosai don ƙalubalanci Oilers, waɗanda suka buƙaci mafi yawan wasanni bakwai don kayar da Flames "a hanya" zuwa gasar cin kofin Stanley ta 1984.