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“It was fast out there … it was fun and it was hard”
“All I’m focusing on is trying to beat the Oilers on Monday”
The Calgary Flames hit the ice for the first time officially in the 2026-27 season – well, their prospects did at least – on Saturday afternoon at the palatial Scotiabank Saddledome. 23 players participated in the main practice group as the Flames’ prospects began preparations for Monday night’s clash with their Edmonton Oilers counterparts in…
On a few levels, it feels like Jay Feaster got a raw deal. Best known in hockey for his stint as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, for which he has his name engraved on the Stanley Cup, Feaster joined the Flames as an assistant general manager in 2010 and soon succeeded Darryl Sutter…
In part four of this series we handed out three A grades to Craig Conroy for his work on the Rasmus Andersson, MacKenzie Weegar, and Ryan Strome trades. Will we be handing any A’s for the three most recent trades the Flames have made? Let’s dive into it. As always, I am going to hand…
Pals, it is September! Not only is it September, but the on-ice portion of Calgary Flames prospects training camp begins on Scotiabank Saddledome ice on Saturday. As that part of the club’s future is being built on the ice, a block and a half to the north the infrastructure side of the club’s future is…
The Calgary Flames have begun their 2026-27 season journey, with prospects training camp kicking off on Friday! In addition to a slew of the organization’s exciting young players coming to camp, there are a few names on the camp roster that might be unfamiliar to Flames fans. Fear not, we’ve got a breakdown of each…
Friends, welcome back to Calgary Flames hockey. Well, prospects training camp, at least. The Flames have announced their roster and schedule for prospects camp. This is the first year of the new collective bargaining agreement, which features more regular season games but has cut the pre-season in half. Combined with just a single prospects game…
Good news: QR Calgary has managed to keep the band together. For the past three seasons, the radio team for Calgary Flames broadcasts has been host Pat Steinberg, play-by-play commentator Derek Wills, and colour commentator Meaghan Mikkelson. When QR Calgary announced their broadcast plans recently, they announced the returns of Steinberg and Wills, but nobody…
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: 2025-26 was not a great season on the ice for the Calgary Flames. Not a ton worked for the Flames. They didn’t score very much at even strength. They were prone to untimely defensive breakdowns which made life tough on their goaltenders. Their power play was…
Nine trades down, six more to go! In part three we looked back on some great trades made by Craig Conroy including the grand slam Jacob Markstrom deal. And now it’s time to break down some of his work from around the 2026 trade deadline. As always, I am going to hand out letter grades…
Friends, at this point, very little you could tell us about Calgary Flames goaltender Devin Cooley would surprise us. A product of Los Gatos, California, hardly a hockey hotbed, Cooley has worked himself into a steady job as Dustin Wolf’s understudy in the Flames’ net through a lot of hard work and determination. For those…
The Calgary Flames will be without Jonathan Huberdeau to begin the 2026-27 season as the veteran forward continues recovering from hip resurfacing surgery. General manager Craig Conroy confirmed Thursday that Huberdeau will start training camp skating individually before gradually returning to team practices. The 33-year-old underwent the procedure in February after his 2025-26 season ended […] The post Flames dealt disappointing Jonathan Huberdeau update ahead of training camp appeared firs...
The 2025-26 season was a weird one for the Calgary Flames in several ways. The Flames registered just 2.54 goals-per-game, the ninth-lowest tally in franchise history, and the lowest per-game output they’ve had since 2013-14 – appropriately, the last time the franchise embraced a youth movement. With so many established players headed out of town in…
New Flames defenceman on upcoming season: “I’m really excited about this new opportunity here”
Six trades down, nine more to go. Let’s dive into trades 7-9. As always, I am going to hand out letter grades (A, B, C, or D) for each trade. For the sake of efficiency, I am only going to grade the 15 NHL trades Conroy has made. Pick swaps at the draft and minor…
Folks, if there’s been one lingering question for the Calgary Flames throughout their 2026 off-season, it’s been some version of “Hey, I wonder how Jonathan Huberdeau is doing?” The highest-paid player in Flames franchise history, signed to the largest contract in franchise history shortly after his arrival via a trade with Florida in the 2022…
Gang, the folks at Sportsnet officially announced their national broadcast plans for the 2026-27 season on Wednesday morning, meaning we now have some clarity in terms of how hockey fans can watch their favourite teams from their living rooms in the coming season. For Calgary Flames fans, here’s what you need to know about following…
When it comes to the Calgary Flames and their rebuild process, general manager Craig Conroy seems like he’s working from the net out. He was an assistant general manager when Dustin Wolf was drafted in 2019, but he was in the big chair and pulled the trigger on 2024 trade that sent Jacob Markstrom to…
CALGARY — On time and on budget, the billion-dollar building that represents so much of the hope and excitement surrounding the Calgary Flames organization will play host to a stirring milestone on Monday. That’s the day the final beam goes into the roof of Scotia Place, officially making it roof tight — a phrase that means little to the average fan, but everything to the 900-plus workers who’ve been living inside that steel skeleton for the better part of two years. To celebrate the moment, t...
Do you remember Niklas Hagman? Every once in a while, we take a look at a player who once played for the Calgary Flames in a series called “A Flame From the Past.” This player has to have played a significant number of games for the Flames. I’ll put every Flames’ season into a Wheel…
In part one of grading Craig Conroy trades we broke down his first three deals as GM of the Flames: Tyler Toffoli, Nikita Zadorov, and Elias Lindholm. Today, we will look at his next three trades. As always, I am going to hand out letter grades (A, B, C, or D) for each trade. For…
The Labour Day weekend is behind us and the hockey world is starting to ramp up for training camps and the upcoming season. Ahead of prospects training camp kicking off later this week, the Calgary Flames announced four new hockey operations hires on Tuesday morning. The Flames have added the following individuals to new gigs:…
At the end of January 2024, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy pulled the trigger on a trade. Headed to the Philadelphia Flyers were pending free agent Andrei Kuzmenko, bubble forward Jakob Pelletier, a second-round pick and a seventh-round pick. Headed back to the Flames were winger Joel Farabee and, perhaps the big target for…
I hope Craig Conroy knew what he was getting himself into when he took on the job as General Manager of the Calgary Flames in May of 2023 because his predecessor, Brad Treliving, left behind an organization in a state of disarray. The team was reeling from losing Matthew Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau within a…