For months now, myself and an ever growing contingent of Tweeps have noticed damning similarities between this year’s Calgary Flames and last year’s Stanley Cup runner up Nashville Predators.
In Greek mythology, there exists a Titan named Atlas whom is tasked (more accurately, punished) with separating the world from the sky, by holding the sky on his shoulders for all eternity. Through two-thirds of the 2017-18 season, Mike Smith has been the Flames’ Atlas, keeping the sky from falling. Aside from perhaps Johnny Gaudreau or Matthew Tkachuk, he’s been their…
The Calgary Flames enter the 2018 trade deadline in a bit of precarious spot: they could use a significant upgrade but lack a lush of significant assets to make said upgrade. A bit of a dilemma.
The Calgary Flames made a couple of moves involving the Stockton Heat this morning ahead of a six-game road swing, demoting Andrew Mangiapane and calling up Marek Hrivik.
Hello, friends. How’s everyone doing? Sad? Mad? Outright depressed?
On Oct. 4, the Edmonton Oilers proved to the hockey world that they were everything everyone prognosticated them to be en route to their 3-0 domination over the Calgary Flames in Game 1 of the regular season. Since then, the Oilers have continued to… wait no. That can’t be right. They’ve been awful? Downright ghastly…
Ten years ago, the Calgary Flames were fresh off a Northwest Division banner and a bitter, disappointing, probably unjust exit in the first round to the Anaheim Ducks. The latter part sound familiar? Ten years ago, expectations were sky high and the excitement in the city surrounding the team was palpable. Sound familiar? Ten years ago…
Coming into the 2015 draft, the Flames had one very pressing need: defence. Both the big team and the farm were hurting on the blueline, with depth near non-existent as evidenced with their Kris Russell-Dennis Wideman first pairing in the playoffs that year. Brad Treliving went out and aggressively addressed that, adding Dougie Hamilton via…
Alcohol, opium and Jarome Iginla to the Flames rumors: the three most addictive substances in Southern Alberta at the writing of this piece. At a time when hockey news is as scarce as water in the Sahara Desert, the whispers that a Jarome Iginla reunion with the Flames is in offing get louder by the day,…
I enjoy a good mock draft. Trying to guess who goes where based on needs, best players available and other factors always adds an extra layer of fun on draft day. Generally, I’ve been pretty good with my educated guessing, generally nailing down the top end of the draft and guessing who goes in the…
Shifting the series back to Canada, we sit down with Scott Wheeler of FutureConsiderations and The Toronto Star to discuss prospects from the CHL’s most Eastern league: the QMJHL. The Q always seems to have an interesting crop of prospects given the league’s penchant for skill and notoriety for lack of defense. Last year they provided the third…
We continue along with the NHL Draft Scout Series with a look at a country that has turned in some sensational drafts in recent years, and doesn’t look to be slowing down much: Finland. Marco Bombino of McKeen’s and @FINjrhockey joins us to discuss an extremely strong Finnish contingent for the 2017 NHL Draft.
