Stuck in the middle
Jean Lefebvre
January 19 2010 05:33PM
So the Calgary Flames are a not-that-nifty 50 games into the 2009-2010 National Hockey League season.
While Monday's debacle at the Shark Tank creates the impression the Flames are heading towards rock-bottom, a fairer bigger-picture view of the whole affair suggests that once they pull out of their current death spiral, they will once again be a club that barely makes or barely misses the post-season.
Stuck in the slow lane
Jean Lefebvre
January 16 2010 10:51AM
The hockey fan in his all his glory has many levels of panic.
Those with weaker constitutions are liable to go into a tizzy if their heroes come up empty on back-to-back power plays. Others have enough iron in their gizzards to wait for an actual loss before the caterwauling commences.
Uneasy Ryder
Jean Lefebvre
January 09 2010 11:45AM
In the middle of a relatively unventful Flames training camp several years back, it seemed like an amusing story. A couple of the kids on the prospects roster hailed from Bonavista, a Newfoundland town of a few thousand souls best known for a mention in the Canadian version of This Land Is Your Land: This land is your land, This land is my land; From Bonavista, to Vancouver Island.
Not too bad by half
Jean Lefebvre
January 03 2010 11:35AM
With Saturday's victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Calgary Flames reached the exact midway point of the 2009-10 campaign.
And the winners are . . .
Jean Lefebvre
January 01 2010 10:15AM
After a brilliant November, the Calgary Flames started leaking oil in December.
