Lived on the Left Coast all my life (and in Vancouver for most of it), no ties whatsoever to Calgary or Alberta, but I love the Flames. I think a combination of getting a white Flames jersey from my parents as a kid (still don't know why, parents weren't hockey fans at all), having a killer logo and look (red jerseys), and Jarome Iginla reeled me in when I finally started watching more actively.
My sweetest moment was being in a downtown Vancouver bar by the beach during the Bruins/Canucks game 7 watching the whole city's (and my buddies') hopes go down the tube while I wore a big smile on my face. Sometimes its nice being behind enemy lines, schadenfreude at its finest.