Post-game summary, team news, and commentary.
The number five seed Calgary Flames opened the 2008-09 Stanley Cup playoff's on the road against the number four seeded Chicago Blackhawks. All bloggers and sports pundits have chosen Chicago as the overwhelming victors in this playoff series, much to the chagrin of...
Puck drop is so close you can taste the bad blood that hasn't even appeared. Calgary Flames fans are eager to see if their team can turn around their lackluster end of season play to trump the favorite Chicago Blackhawks in this year's NHL playoffs. In order to win...
The Calgary Flames have called up Dustin Boyd, David Van der Gulik, Kyle Greentree, Leland Irving and Warren Peters from the Quad City Flames who's season ended on the weekend. Absent from the callups was Anders Ericksson.... Does the team really hate him that much?...
DATE:                     TIME (Calgary time)               NETWORK Thursday, April 16     6:30 p.m.     Calgary at Chicago     TSN, VERSUS Saturday, April 18     7:00 p.m.     Calgary at...
Hello hockey fans, The 2008/9-hockey season finally comes to an end as the Calgary Flames ceremoniously toss the Edmonton Oilers with a 4-1 victory on home ice. Highlights Curtis McElhinney gets his 1st win of the year. Michael Cammelleri scores his 38th and 39th of...
McElhinney First Career Win: Calgary 4 - Edmonton 1 Tonight's game, meaningless. Calgary's talent on the gamesheet, second to none. Their performance? Absolutely horrendous in the second half of the season. Calgary found out they would play Chicago and wind up 5th in...
One of the worst collapses in professional sports this year occurred in the month of March and April. The team in question was our own Calgary Flames. The losers on ice had a comfortable lead in in February for first place in the NW division. They squandered that in...
What do you get with two games to go, home ice advantage, a pathetic top line, massive 15. That's the number of Flames players dressed for tonight's game. The rash of injuries at the worst time of year put Calgary in a tight spot. Without cap space to bring up players...
David Moss has signed a three-year contract extension with the Calgary Flames Expect the deal to be worth in excess of 2 million a year. In 79 games with Calgary this season, the right winger recorded career highs in goals (20), assists (18) and points (38). We can...
Epic Win. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yS09w6lVHI] We will be paying more attention to youtube stuff next season....
***Welcome Iqbal, he's posting his first article as part of a process to become a FlamesForum blogger.*** Coming off one of the more crushing defeats of the year in a game the Flames needed in order to win the Northwest, give some guys some much needed rest (ahem...
The Canucks have one chant, it's 'Calgary sucks'. The poor boobs in vancouver can't think of anything smarter. Alas, they can chant whatever they want because it's true, Calgary does suck, but tonight it was the PP, and not necessarily the entire game. And Dion...
Destiny, or rather first place in the NW division, is now completely in the Flames' hands. They can win the next two games and clinch first. Or they can crap the bed and flounder to 5th or even 6th place virtually assuring a first round exit. A number of factors were...
Congratulations to Craig Conroy, the recipient of the J.R. McCaig Award and the recognized nominee for the 2009 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. ******************************************************************************** With a win and a couple of losses last...
Pathetic Showing from Referees Marginally Worse Than Flames Effort Minnesota going into the game were four points out of playoff spot, not exactly the NW division powerhouse they've been in the past. Perfect set up for Calgary to get rolled (that's bad). Now it's...