Post-game summary, team news, and commentary.
The New Year brings 3 hockey games in four nights, great for fans, and even better if the home team wins. Tonight the Flames looked to extend their monster one game win -streak to two games versus the resurgent LA Kings. Things barely got underway when the tone was...
The Calgary Flames took a quick trip North 300 km's in the second of back to back games to face their divisional and provincial rivals the Edmonton Oilers. Edmonton is in the midst of a six game losing streak, Calgary licking their wounds from a spanking vs. the...
It's tough to lose. It's tough to lose consistently when the rest of the NW division is catching on fire (less Edmonton). It's worse to do all those things and lose to the Vancouver -- the cockiest and yappiest team in the history of all NHL (maybe that's a bit of a...
One thing is for sure, the NW division is heating up and the Flames singing FAST. THe division leaders have been listless for the past month. November was great, December is horrid. The top line is non-existent. The million dollar defense is hit and miss. The second,...
2:00PM afternoon start, weird for hockey in this town, but people will take it, plus it was Iginla bobblehead day for the first 2500 fans in the Dome. Matinée games are brutal to watch cause they seem so much slower, the fans even have less edge. When you can hear...
Hawerchuk from Behind The Net Hockey compiled some basic stats from the past decade and listed the top players who turned up. The stats are pretty interesting. For example, the Top 10 players list with the most games played in the past 10 years includes three Flames....
The Calgary Flames played at home vs the Los Angelas Kings after the teams clashed in LA last week. The Kings won that contest, tonight, Calgary turned the tables. The good news was the Flames showed up in grand style with a robust form of hockey that saw bodies fly...
Flames Loose Third in a Row As the rest of the NW division starts to get hot, the Calgary Flames are as cold as the recent Calgary cold snap. The team can't even beat struggling teams like Minnesota or tonight against St Louis. If the team played at 50% against...
In a game with first place stakes, Calgary picked up from where they left off in the Minnesota game Friday, in the GUTTER. Fans couldn't figure out who to blame: the atrocious penalty calling, or Calgary's ineptitude--they eventually figured out it was Calgary's...
Calgary got beat up bad tonight at home. The only saving grace was the game was on PPV. From fights, to shots, to everything in between, Calgary was badly outplayed by a Minnesota team that began the first quarter of the year in the basement of the West Division. The...
Atlanta, Atlanta, hmmm, yea, doesn't ring a bell. Not sure when the last time Atlanta won anything, hockey wise, and tonight was no different. Although they have a couple of big name stars, the Flames seemed to capably keep them at bay for most of the night. From my...
If the LA Kings have been winning games the way they won tonight they will promptly fall to the basement of the NW division. There is no way lucky hockey is sustainable for 82 games. Posts, wide open nets, more posts, lucky carems, just incredible bounces going LA's...
Kipper Play of the Year Touted by some as a potential preview of the Western Conference Final, the Calgary Flames played game 5 of 6 on the road against the league leading San Jose Sharks. Right off the bat the tone was set by San JOse as they crashed and banged...
On the second half of their 6 game road-trip, Calgary is riding out a November hot streak into December. -20 in Calgary, +20 in Phoenix, and Calgary looking for their first win in December. One thing you can't assume, other than warmer weather, is a weak Phoenix...
The Calgary Flames entered Nashville mid-way through their six game road swing down the West. A win would give the Flames points in the last 10 away games and extend their lead on Colorado in the NW division. Nashville has also benefited from 8 wins in the month of...