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The Edmonton Oilers have made their first wave of cuts at their training camp. Following Monday evening’s NextGen game against the Calgary Flames, four players were cut from their training camp. Ryan Cameron, a netminder whom the Oilers drafted in the 2026 NHL Draft, was sent back to his United States Hockey League team. Moreover,…
The Edmonton Oilers took on the Calgary Flames in the Next Gen Showcase on Monday in an exhibition game at the Scotiabank Saddledome featuring players attending Rookie Camp. Edmonton won…
After four long months, Edmonton Oilers hockey has returned at long last. The club’s top prospects took down the Calgary Flames 6-1 in their annual NextGen Showcase on Monday, putting a neat bow on this season’s rookie camp. It was a great showing for a number of Oilers prospects. All three goalies looked solid, Tomas…
The Calgary Flames’ prospects hosted the Edmonton Oilers’ prospects at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday night in the NextGen Showcase. The Oilers won by a 6-1 score, but the Flames played decently for big chunks of the game. Here are our assessments of each player who suited up for the Flames against the Oilers on…
“All in all, it’s a good building block for those kids”
“The juices are flowing … just trying to get a spark for the boys”
The Oilers Rookies were down the QE2 in Calgary to take on the Flames Rookies in a Battle of Alberta showdown at the Saddledome.
The first taste of Edmonton Oilers hockey took place on Monday evening. With pre-season just around the corner, the Oilers’ rookies took on the Calgary Flames’ rookies in the second annual NextGen game. Thankfully, the good guys won 6-1, the first of what will hopefully be many wins in 2025-26. Here’s what happened in this…
The Calgary Flames hosted the Edmonton Oilers on Monday evening in a clash of each club’s prospects training camp rosters, dubbed the NextGen Showcase. Effort was on display for the home side, but execution wasn’t quite there, as the Flames’ prospects dropped a 6-1 contest to the Oilers’ prospects at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Flames lines…
By Bradley Keith | at September 14, 2026 7:13 pm Talks are still on hold between Detroit and restricted free agent Simon Edvinsson, Pierre Lebrun of The Athletic reported in today’s edition of NHL rumblings. According to the insider, the hold-up is the Red Wings hiring a new general manager or head of hockey operations. As of today Detroit has $19MM in cap space, but if fans back on July 1st were to know that would be the case here in September, only something wildly unplanned would have to ha...
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Edmonton Oilers rookie camp concludes on Monday night with one game against the Calgary Flames rookies. Many of the higher-profile names heading into tonight’s clash were part of media scrums that began Friday, including Isaac Howard, Josh Samanski, Rudolfs Berzkalns, Connor Clattenburg, Samuel Jonsson, Owen Michaels, and Quinn Hutson. Lines: Howard-Samasnki-Hutson Pitlick-Marjala-Lewandowski Nicholl-Michaels-Tassy Cameron-Berzkalns-Harvey Carfagna-Akey…
Friends, it’s time once again to do that hockey. The Calgary Flames will welcome the Edmonton Oilers to the historic Scotiabank Saddledome for a prospects clash, entitled the NextGen Showcase! The game is intended to be the centrepiece of each club’s prospects training camp, and you can imagine players on both sides of the ice will be…
Hockey is just hours away. For the first time since the Edmonton Oilers were eliminated by the Anaheim Ducks from the 2026 playoffs, fans of the NHL’s northernmost team will get to watch their team play. Well… kind of. Monday evening will see the Oilers pack up a bunch of their rookies and head three…
Last fall, every player who had ever scored a season-opening goal for the Calgary Wranglers was on the roster at the start of the year. By the summer of 2026, only one remained. In the first two years the Flames’ AHL affiliate came to Calgary, Jeremie Poirier had the title of the season’s first goal…
The Calgary Flames play hockey on Monday night, as their prospects hit the ice to begin the final year of hockey at the historic Scotiabank Saddledome. As we prepare for the NextGen Showcase, and the rest of the season that follows it, let’s check in with our mailbag! What prospects do you think are being…
The Edmonton Oilers will take on the host Calgary Flames in the Next Gen Showcase at Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday at 6 p.m. MT. Fans can watch the game on…
Calgary Flames prospects training camp continued on Sunday afternoon at the historic Scotiabank Saddledome, with the second day of on-ice action. As Wranglers bench boss Brent Sutter put the kids through their paces ahead of Monday night’s NextGen Showcase against the Edmonton Oilers’ prospects, here’s what we saw at the ‘Dome. Our general impressions The…
“It’s been really high-paced – practices have been hard”
Way back on June 22, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio, the Calgary Flames selected Swedish forward Mikael Backlund at 24th overall in the 2007 NHL Draft. Way back on Jan. 8, 2009, Backlund made his National Hockey League debut at home, playing 10:44 in a 5-2 Flames victory over the New York Islanders. During the 2026-27…
Since Craig Conroy became general manager of the Calgary Flames in May 2023, his club has made 33 draft choices. Up the road, the Edmonton Oilers have made 20. In the same span, though, Edmonton’s appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals. The contrast in directions between the two Alberta hockey clubs will be pretty apparent…
On Thursday, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy finally confirmed a rumour that fans and media in this city have been discussing for weeks: Jonathan Huberdeau will not be ready for the start of the 2026-27 regular season. The veteran winger appeared in just 50 games with the Flames in 2025-26 before undergoing a season-ending…
The Calgary Flames will be one of the NHL's worst teams in 2026-27, and expect to see general manager Craig Conroy pull the trigger on a few moves throughout this season. One player who is almost a guarantee to be moved - Morgan Frost. Frost, 27, has just one year left on his contract at $4.7 million AAV, and owns a eight-team no-trade clause, so he'll have a little bit of say in the matter. Frost is coming off a solid season, scoring 22 goals and 43 points in 82 games, averaging 15:30 of ice-...
“It was good to be back … I thought they competed hard”
“I’ve still got to prove that I belong here and do my best on the ice every day”