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20 Days, 20 Questions: What can Matvei Gridin do over a full NHL season?
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…
20 Days, 20 Questions: What does Zayne Parekh’s sophomore season look like?
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,…
NHL Notebook: Canucks sign Zeev Buium to eight-year extension
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…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Yegor Sharangovich re-discover his offensive swagger?
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…
Meet the new EBUG, same as the old EBUG: Dusty Nickel to be named Flames full-time emergency backup
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…
‘It’s just a matter of when, not if’: Craig Conroy on Jonathan Huberdeau’s injury return timeline
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,…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Joel Farabee become the Flames’ new Blake Coleman?
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…
The Flames will play four times on Amazon Prime’s Wednesday Night Hockey in 2026-27
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…
Flames prospect Bode Laylin commits to University of Minnesota for 2027-28 season
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…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Who will be the Flames’ fourth line centre in 2026-27?
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…
What Ryan Pike read, watched and listened to in August 2026
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…
Derek Wills returns as radio play-by-play voice on QR 77, Pat Steinberg to host Flames Now on weekday afternoons
They’re back! On Thursday morning, after many teases, QR Calgary’s Sarah Crosbie finally made two fairly significant sports radio announcements during the morning show. The announcements were as follows: Derek Wills, the radio play-by-play voice of the Calgary Flames since 2014-15 on Sportsnet 960 The Fan, will return in that role, with QR beginning game…
How the Calgary Hitmen have navigated the impacts of the NCAA’s rule changes
It’s been a really interesting few years in hockey’s developmental pipeline. In the olden days, the choice for young players was one of two paths: Canadian major junior or American college. One or the other. If you committed to go to college, you could not play in the Canadian Hockey League. If you played in…
A look at the Calgary Flames’ projected line combinations
Friends, the 2026-27 National Hockey League season is just around the corner. Training camp opens for the Calgary Flames in the third week of September, roughly around Sept. 17, and on paper, the big club’s roster seems reasonably set. Here’s a quick rundown of how we see the Flames’ roster and lineup shaking out ahead of…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Mikael Backlund remain the Flames’ two-way ace?
In hockey, there’s a familiar refrain: If you’ve got goaltending, you’ve got a lot. That phrasing reflects the sheer importance of the goalie position as something that can hold a team that’s out-matched in quite a few games. Well, in Calgary, there’s another saying: If they’ve got Mikael Backlund, they’ve got a lot. In 2026-27,…
Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau had ‘little bit of a setback’ in recovery from hip surgery
Folks, one of the biggest question marks for the Calgary Flames heading into the 2026-27 campaign centres on the health of their highest-paid player, Jonathan Huberdeau. Acquired in a blockbuster trade with the Florida Panthers in July 2022 coming off a season where he set the single-season assists record for a left wing, Huberdeau signed…
A look at the Calgary Wranglers’ projected line combinations
The Calgary Wranglers are going to be a significantly different team this year. Only a handful of the well-known names remain after a very eventful off-season. The team has signed not only enough players to fill out their AHL depth chart, but also their ECHL depth chart. The organization struggled at all levels last season…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Sam Honzek (finally) avoid injury this season?
Professional sports can be a tough business, folks. Spots in the big leagues are so competitive that grabbing and keeping a spot is almost as much about luck as it is about talent. Years back, the Calgary Flames drafted a promising Swedish centre by the name of Mikael Backlund. Backlund was a really promising player…
6 Flames on Daily Faceoff’s top 75 NHL-affiliated skater prospects list
Folks, if you’ve been following either us or our colleagues at Daily Faceoff over the last little while, you’ve probably noticed that July and August were Prospects Season. Over the last while, our pal Steven Ellis has been doing deep dives on the prospect systems of all 32 National Hockey League clubs. He’s capping off…
NHL Notebook: Former Flame Calle Järnkrok signs three-year deal in Sweden
A former Calgary Flame is heading back to Europe. In the early hours of Monday morning, Swedish Hockey League’s Bryäs IF announced that Calle Järnkrok signed a three-year deal that expires after the 2028-29 season. Välkommen hem, Calle Järnkrok Brynäs IF kan idag meddela att Calle Järnkrok efter 13 säsonger i Nordamerika vänder hem till…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Dustin Wolf’s numbers bounce back in 2026-27?
A couple years back, the Calgary Flames had one of their top prospects debut as a full-time National Hockey League player. That player, goaltender Dustin Wolf, had a superb rookie campaign and back-stopped the Flames to within a tiebreaker of qualification for the Stanley Cup playoffs. On a personal level, Wolf received tons of accolades…
Monday Mailbag: Closing out August with reader questions!
Pals, we’re into the very last days of the month of August. Several Calgary Flames prospects have hit the ice across European and Canadian major junior hockey. Several more will join them in a couple weeks when prospects training camp begins here in Calgary. As we prepare for the frenzy of activity that will come…
FN’s 2026 Flames summer prospect rankings – the individual lists and conclusion
Every summer since 2015, we here at FlamesNation have compiled our annual Calgary Flames prospects rankings. In the dozen instalments of our voting, this was easily the toughest on our voting panel. Depending on how you want to define it, the Flames began their rebuilding process either with the trade of Elias Lindholm to Vancouver…
7 free agents the Flames should target for 2026-27 professional try-outs
The 2026-27 season will be a tough one for the Calgary Flames. This past season was the first real rebuilding season for the Flames, after narrowly missing the playoffs in 2024-25. After 82 games, the Flames finished with the fourth-fewest points, yet dropped to the sixth overall pick. Expect much of the same in 2026-27…
A Flame from the Past: Frank Musil
Do you remember Frank Musil? 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…
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