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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…
The 2026-27 NHL season is the first year of the new collective bargaining agreement, and the pre-season schedule has been cut down from the traditional six to eight games to only four, with veteran NHL players who have appeared in over 100 NHL games can only dress for two of these. The Calgary Flames are…
The Calgary Flames started the 2025-26 regular season with a pair of teenagers on their roster for the first time since 1997-98. One of them, top prospect Zayne Parekh, had accomplished basically everything he could as a junior player and was essentially forced to make the leap to the National Hockey League because there was…
For the past four decades, the province of Alberta has hosted two NHL teams, the Edmonton Oilers (emigrating from the WHL in 1979) and the Calgary Flames (relocating from Atlanta in 1980). Separated by a mere 175 miles, these two franchises have forged one of the most intense rivalries in the game, playing hundreds of regular season games and six playoff series against each other, in
Man, Zayne Parekh had a really, really weird first professional season, didn’t he? The ninth overall selection by the Calgary Flames in the 2024 NHL Draft, Parekh joined the club in 2025-26 on the heels of one of the most impressive couple seasons an Ontario junior defenceman has ever had. He had back-to-back 30-goal campaigns,…
With the regular season quickly approaching, teams across the National Hockey League have ramped up their transactions. One of the biggest news pieces these last few days belongs to the Calgary Flames’ Pacific Division rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. On Friday, they extended defenceman Zeev Buium to an eight-year deal worth $9.38 million annually. 8 MORE…
The very first trade that Craig Conroy made as general manager of the Calgary Flames had extremely promising early returns. On June 27, 2023, the Flames sent forward Tyler Toffoli, one of seven roster players heading into their final year before potential unrestricted free agency, to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Yegor Sharangovich…
When the National Hockey League’s collective bargaining agreement was extended for four years in July 2025 – a year before its expiry – one of the interesting wrinkles was the introduction of full-time emergency backup goaltenders (or EBUG) for every team starting with the 2026-27 season. In the olden days, the home team was required…
Nickel had been the EBUG at Flames home games for the last several years.
Earlier this week, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy chatted with QR Calgary’s Jock Wilson, and part of their conversation might have caused some worries about the status of Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau’s return from hip surgery. Well, Sportsnet’s Eric Francis had a chance to get a few updates from Conroy in his latest column,…
After covering hockey for a few years, one of my conclusions about player performance is pretty simple. It’s easier to find consistency when your game has a clear identity. In a sense, that’s why Mikael Backlund made so much sense to be the captain of the Calgary Flames. For a hockey club going through a…
Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has cleared the air about comments he made earlier in the week about the status of winger Jonathan Huberdeau’s recovery from hip resurfacing surgery. Huberdeau, 33, is still working through his rehabilitation process following the operation, which he underwent back in March. On Tuesday, Conroy raised eyebrows around the […]
Pals, over the past couple of seasons, the folks at Amazon Prime sub-contracted Sportsnet’s Monday national window and ran Monday Night Hockey broadcasts in Canada on their stream service. The broadcasts were pretty good, and seemingly Sportsnet enjoyed the money they got from contracting out one of their nights. As the new 12-year national TV…
Calgary Flames defence prospect Bode Laylin announced Thursday that he has committed to attend the University of Minnesota starting in the 2027-28 season. Laylin, 18, collected 11 goals and 38 points in 55 games with the USHL’s Tri-City Storm during the 2025-26 season, adding a goal and an assist in two playoff contests. The Flames…
MacKenzie Weegar has watched the exodus from Canadian NHL markets from an unusual vantage point, a player who loved his time north of the border but ended up leaving anyway, through no choice of his own. Speaking on TSN's "Overdrive " this week, the Utah Mammoth defenseman addressed the recent wave of star players pushing their way out of Canada. "As a Canadian-born player and to play in Calgary, for me personally, I had a great experience in Canada," Weegar said. "Calgary was an absolut...
As training camp approaches, the news is good, but not great, for Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau. As he continues his recovery from major hip resurfacing surgery in March, general manager Craig Conroy says he's doing well, but likely won't be ready to start the season. Craig Conroy on Jonathan Huberdeau: “He’s really doing well in the gym… He had a little bit of a setback maybe two weeks ago with his skating… We feel at the beginning of the year he’s going to be pretty c...
Friends, when the 2026-27 begins for the Calgary Flames, all indications are that their centres will include 37-year-old captain Mikael Backlund, pending unrestricted free agents Morgan Frost and Ryan Strome, and a to-be-determined fourth person. We’ll get to the free agency part of it all later on, but right now, let’s focus on their fourth…
Pals, if you’re anything like me, you consume a lot of hockey content. After covering the Calgary Flames and the National Hockey League for roughly 15 seasons, I still like reading, watching and listening to content about the sport – I didn’t play beyond the pee wee level, so I try to learn as much…