The Calgary Flames crawled out of an early hole they dug to earn at least a point against the team chasing them in the standings. It was quite the lacklustre start for the Flames as the Los Angeles Kings – who played in Edmonton the night before – went immediately into a shutdown trap game….
If you enjoy watching hockey that has quality back-checking from both teams from start to finish, then Calgary’s tight 2-1 loss to Colorado was the game for you. Both teams showed each other at 5v5 why they were leading their conferences with neither letting any holes in their coverage pop up. The only time either…
Lights! Camera! Goals! In one of the most entertaining Flames games in recent memory the Battle of Alberta left the northern Alberta neighbours wondering what happened on the wrong side of a 9-5 score. Maybe the most impressive feat was that Calgary got all 9 goals at 5v5. It was back and forth to start…
The scoreboard says the game was one sided, which it was, but the Flames had some bad habits creep up at times that one would not necessarily celebrate. Letting in goals late in periods are what sticks out the most – the time of the game when you want to be extra smart with the…
The Calgary Flames blew a 3-1 lead in the second period to lose their third game against the Sharks this season. It’s the third multi-goal lead they’ve blown this month but this one wasn’t built the same as the the others. There were two goals that the Flames Vezina candidate goaltender would want back, and…
As the minutes till the trade deadline ticked away the Calgary Flames were able to acquire Ryan Carpenter from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for a 2024 5th-round pick. A move made possible due to the Vancouver Canucks claiming Brad Richardson off waivers earlier in the day. Let’s take a look like we did with…
It kind of shocks me that in a game this important for the Vancouver Canucks – one where the coach even said he emphasized how important it would be to have a strong start – that they would come out that flat-footed. Now that’s a bit of the Canucks, but a massive amount of credit…
On Wed., Mar. 16 the Calgary Flames sent a second-round pick in 2022 (Florida’s), a third-round pick in 2023 and a seventh-round pick in 2024 to the Seattle Kraken for forward Calle Jarnkrok (at 50% salary retained, for a $1 million cap hit). Let’s take a deep dive on the type of player he has…
The second period saw the Buffalo Sabres get some dangerous quality chances – the only reason the Calgary Flames were able to get the point was Jacob Markstrom. Unfortunately, he was the victim of a bouncing puck in overtime, but since nobody else got on the board that ended up being the game winning goal….
New Jersey came out of the gates with rockets on their skates trying to drive the Flames net early – they were met with an adequate defensive zone resistance from the Flames three defence pairings. After Calgary found the first goal, they never let New Jersey snag momentum again. Twice they responded to Devils goals…
Two games into Calgary/Colorado and I want to just watch these teams play each other for the rest of the season. Back and forth action – no team really ever taking complete control of the game despite having multi-goal wins in both match ups. On Sunday the Flames started and ended hot, but the Avs…
Someone forgot to tell the Detroit Red Wings that this game started at 5 p.m. because they didn’t show any signs of life until the start of the third period. That was fine though because up until then the score was still just 1-0, not for a lack of chances though. Thomas Greiss was the…
