Calgary Flames Go Fishing
The Flames are back from a banff trip designed for team building. I had to post this video up, it's hilarious....
Pre-Season 2011 Closes With Win: Calgary 4 – Phoenix 2
The Calgary Flames closed their 2011 pre-season 9 days before the October 8th season opener. Phoenix visited and provided the stiffest competition yet in pre-season action. For their part, the Flames had most regulars in less the top line.
The game itself was sort of back and forth (a way to say boring) in the first period. Things turned around with a couple of second period goals on the powerplay.
Flames Send Players Back to Minors
Not too many surprises, more like disappointments from Flames camp. The management cut 14 players. 12 are off to Abbotsford, two are back to their junior teams.
Heading to AHL Heat:
- Carter Bancks (LW)
Chris Breen (D)
T.J. Brodie (D)
Leland Irving (G)
Stefan Meyer (C)
Brendan Mikkelson (D)
Greg Nemisz (RW)
Joni Ortio (G)
Gaelan Patterson (C)
Joe Piskula (D)
Ben Walter (C)
Clay Wilson (D)
Flames Open Pre-Season With Split in Split
The 2011-2012 pre-season opened with a home at home split game between the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks. Although Vancouver failed to play anybody with any form of skill, the highlight was Calgary's young prospects. The Jay Feaster era has begun and many new faces have been added to the mix.
Some highlights of last night's two games were certainly the new prospects.
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Calgary Flames Open Main Camp
The 2011-2012 NHL season is almost upon us. A TON of questions lie unanswered this year as the Flames come into the season slightly improved in a division where the opposition has grown in leaps and bounds.
Certainly, the sudden increase in talented prospects is obvious, but the divide between their NHL readiness and the current team is huge.
At big camp things got off to a rocky start with Iginla sitting out the first two days with back spasms.
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Daymond Langkow Traded to Phoenix for Lee Stempniak
Why? Probably a salary dump. Calgary Flames have shed more salary by dumping Daymond Langkow's 4.5 million salary in favour of a much lighter cap hit of 1.9 million. The new management is certainly putting their stamp on the team literally nixing many of the expensive contracts of the Darryl Sutter era. (Why wasn't it Stajan though, oh right, no team is stupid enough to take him, mind you, Buffalo did take Kotalik....)
Flames fans have few reasons to be excited for the upcoming season, Langkow was one of them. A chance to play a full year with a top centerman might have been the edge the team needed. Instead, the logjam at the C position, including the aged Morrison and apparently David Moss, are the solutions for the Flames at C. I'm not sold.
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Calgary Flames TV Schedule 2011-2012
Once again, to the delight of Flames fans all 82 Flames regular season games will be broadcast on TV. This will also include three pre-season games.
The 82 game schedule will be on the following networks: Sportsnet West (45+2), Sportsnet Flames (15), CBC (12), TSN (11).
Complete schedule after the jump:
Flames Signings: Leblond, Reinhart, Smith, Mikkelson
The depth chart behind #1 & #2 defencemen Bouwmeester and Giordano is looking mighty thin. On the LW there's TJ Brodie sitting #6.... Although he has skills is he ready for the big time? After Gio there's Sarich with that veteran presence, Babchuk who's played the easiest defensive minutes, and a bunch of new names like Butler, Mikkelson, Carson.....
Some serious question marks remain on D for the Flames, one thing is for sure, we'll be average at best back there, coupled with 'average' at the forward ranks (albeit with quite a few 20 goal scorers) and you have an average team right up against the cap.
Back to some signings. Mikkelson accepted his qualifying offer and will be back. The Flames also signed Derek Smith off the free agent market to a two way contract, he'll play in the minors unless we have some serious injuries.
Calgary Flames 2011-2012 NHL Schedule
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OCTOBER 2011
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| DATE | VISITOR | HOME | TIME (MT) | ||||
| SAT, 8 OCT 2011 | PENGUINS | FLAMES | 8:00 PM | ||||
| MON, 10 OCT 2011 | FLAMES | BLUES | 12:00 PM | ||||
| THU, 13 OCT 2011 | FLAMES | CANADIENS | 5:30 PM | ||||
| SAT, 15 OCT 2011 | FLAMES | MAPLE LEAFS | 5:00 PM | ||||
| TUE, 18 OCT 2011 | OILERS | FLAMES | 7:00 PM | ||||
| THU, 20 OCT 2011 | RANGERS | FLAMES | 7:00 PM | ||||
| SAT, 22 OCT 2011 | PREDATORS | FLAMES | 2:00 PM | ||||
| WED, 26 OCT 2011 | AVALANCHE | FLAMES | 7:00 PM | ||||
| FRI, 28 OCT 2011 | BLUES | FLAMES | 7:00 PM | ||||
Flames Draft 2011: Sven Bartschi 1st Rd : Marcus Granlund, Tyler Wotherspoon 2nd :
Last year the Flames made splashes at the draft, but it wasn't by drafting anybody. Without any picks in the top two rounds the Flames sat around. This year is different, 3 selections in the first two rounds.
That didn't stop pre-draft day news from picking up steam mostly surrounding a possible Robyn Regehr trade. Then in the morning more rumours started flying that Calgary had made an offer for 6.5 million dollar man Ryan Smyth. Two rumored moves that fans shaking their heads.
As news comes in that Regher has agreed to go Buffalo, and the latter didn't happen (Smyth should be heading to Edmonton, thank God), fans could sit back and wait for the news of who would be taken in the first round and what type of stamp the new management would give the team.
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