The Calgary Flames are back in the Pacific Division this season. To get everyone reacquainted with the new divisional foes, we’re previewing every team. After being swept by the upstart Vegas Golden Knights in round one of the 2018 playoffs the once-mighty Kings fully embraced the rebuild path. Over the last three years, Rob Blake’s…
It’s finally October and after some consternation following three straight exhibition losses, the Flames put in their best preseason effort and were rewarded with their first victory. Playing good hockey leads to winning!
Coming in at number 15 in the 2021 edition of Calgary Flames prospect rankings is defensive stalwart Yan Kuznetsov. The 2020 second-round selection is fresh off a solid and busy year where he was strong in his final NCAA season, secured a spot on the Russian World Junior club, and made his professional debut with…
Martin Pospisil has been through some ups and downs since being drafted by the Flames. He’s suffered some tough injuries and has missed some development time in the American Hockey League.
One of the more intriguing prospects in Calgary’s pipeline is 24-year-old Johannes Kinnvall. A bit of a late bloomer, the offensively gifted defender was scooped up by Brad Treliving just after the NHL season pause in 2020.
Looking ahead at the 2021-22 season there were some question marks on the blue line as it pertains to the Calgary Flames. Mark Giordano would be a year older, Chris Tanev was coming off a tough season and top pairing stalwart TJ Brodie was lost to Toronto in free agency. Rasmus Andersson seemed a solidifying…
Another season, another solid performance from Elias Lindholm. It seems he takes on whatever form the Flames need him to take on. The versatile Swede put together another solid campaign tying Johnny Gaudreau for the team lead in goals, playing in all situations, and was an exemplar of mistake-free, consistent hockey for the lion’s share…
Mark Giordano’s tenure with the Calgary Flames brings to mind what is, in my opinion, the best episode of network TV ever produced: episode five of the fourth season of Lost, “The Constant.” If any of us Flames fans were to have our consciousness sent through time, in order to avoid a temporal paradox, Mark…
I guess the Flames really are going suck us back in, eh? It looked as though they were toast. Likely, an actual playoff berth is still too tall a task but if the boys in red go three for three…they have a chance. Mostly dead, but slightly alive.
The Flames played well and won an important game. That’s refreshing. Sure, they have played some decent hockey as of late but the urgency, pace, and translation into results has been variable. The boys in the monstrous black C, vertical stripe laden jerseys came out a dictated play for the majority of the hockey game….
Another day, another regulation loss for the Calgary Flames. They played okay last night. They had the puck a lot and made a push late. But, okay isn’t close to good enough right now. The predictable and perimeter brand of hockey this club keeps rolling out may as well be trademarked at this point. Scoring…
After each and every game the Calgary Flames play, we all wrack our brains and try to come up with some articulate lesson we can garner from the 60+ minutes we just watched.
