Five Things: The dog days
Ryan Lambert
August 09 2012 11:09AM
1. Flames lose inconsequential defenseman, still have several lying about
This is what qualifies as news in early August except when a prospect maybe or maybe not punches someone out in front of a bar.
To bastardize a quote from "Love Story:" What can you say about Clay Wilson? His jump to the KHL is more or less of no consequence except that it voids his current contract, which was a one-way deal to ensure he got paid his full $525,000 when he's still bussing it in Abbotsford.
Five things: What the what?
Ryan Lambert
August 02 2012 08:28AM
1. The Jankowski decision
So Mark Jankowski is going to forego the USHL and head straight to Providence College and the best top-to-bottom college hockey conference in the NCAA. People seem more or less thrilled by this decision.
Five things: Only two of which even tangentially connect to the Flames
Ryan Lambert
July 25 2012 03:26PM
1. Now things are moving
Shea Weber? Locked up. Rick Nash? Finally traded. Shane Doan? Came out and set a deadline for the Coyotes to figure everything out or else he's gone.
Five things: Guesswork
Ryan Lambert
July 19 2012 07:30AM
1. Nothing happening
Apart from introducing Roman Cervenka yesterday, and revealing that the organization considers him a center for some reason, and also admitting that they're closing in on the 50-contract limit for some reason I can't understand, the Flames have absolutely nothing going on. It's all very quiet.
Five things: And now we come to this
Ryan Lambert
July 12 2012 07:45AM
1. The Backlund deal
As you all know I have been hyper-critical of the Flames' contract decisions in this offseason — Wideman, enough said — and while I would love to continue to be outraged over this kind of stuff, frankly, the Backlund deal is very, very good.
