The National Hockey League season is suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. But while we wait for the season to hopefully resume, we can’t help but wonder: what if the season was still going? So we’re using EA Sports’ NHL 20 to simulate games. First up? The March 12 meeting between the Flames and the…
Read More →In a way, Jakob Pelletier both benefits from and is hurt by recency bias as a prospect. The team’s most recent first round selection, he’s the shiny new toy. He had a really good post-draft season, playing key minutes on one of junior hockey’s best teams. But coming after the likes of Sean Monahan, Matthew…
Read More →Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano was part of a special video conference call organization by the National Hockey League on Friday morning. He was joined by Connor McDavid, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Bo Horvat and provided an update on how he’s coping with the pause in the 2019 NHL season.
Read More →You could be forgiven if you aren’t terribly excited about Glenn Gawdin as a prospect. If you look at his hockey history, he’s always been a player with tons of intangibles but questionable high-end skill. But on the back of three really strong seasons of growth, he was quietly the most important player for the…
Read More →While some truly awful stuff swirls in the world at large, the hockey world keeps puttering along. The Calgary Flames have conducted some business with a pair of college signings. But they also have some looming prospect decisions to make as spring begins to turn into summer.
Read More →Welcome back to this week’s edition of Throwback Thursday!
Read More →Over the past few seasons, two things have happened to the Calgary Flames fairly regularly. They’ve drafted well and have usually had a standout prospect. But they’ve also regularly graduated their top kids to the National Hockey League level fairly rapidly.
Read More →History was made earlier this week as for the first time in its history, the Western Hockey League has had a player granted exceptional status. 15-year-old forward Connor Bedard, a British Columbia product, received the designation from Hockey Canada.
Read More →The National Hockey League has had a few conference calls over the past few days, updating both the Board of Governors and the general managers about the ongoing pause in the 2019-20 season related to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s beginning to look a lot like we may be looking at Stanley Cup playoff hockey… in…
Read More →One of the two newest Calgary Flames has earned some hardware from his final collegiate season. Blueliner Colton Poolman – officially signed by the Flames last week – has been named the National Collegiate Hockey Conference’s Defensive Defenseman of the Year.
Read More →by OddsShark (@OddsShark) – Sponsored Post It has been almost two weeks since the NHL suspended play due to the COVID-19 outbreak now gripping North America, and there is no end in sight. NHL players have been directed to remain in self-isolation until at least March 27, as news breaks of at least two players…
Read More →Way, way back in the 1970s, the Flames franchise was merely a notion. The National Hockey League approved a pair of franchises – to play in Long Island and Atlanta – to counter the growth of the rival World Hockey Association. On June 6, 1972, rookie general manager Cliff Fletcher and his crew hunkered down…
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