Post-game summary, team news, and commentary.
With Edmonton pulling out all the free agent deals, Calgary jumped into the mix with another minor move acquiring Alberta boy Rene Bourque, a native of Lac La Biche, from Chicago. Bourque finished his third season with the Blackhawks in 07-08, recording 24 points from...
Ryan Malone Worth More Than Iginla This is how the NHL owners messed up the first time (actually, not for the first time.) Players who didn't deserve big contracts were for some reason being overpaid. What this does in the simplest terms is put marginal players at a...
The Calgary Flames used their pick (moving down 17 to 25th via Alex Tanguay trade, which was a separate deal from the Cammalleri trade) to acquire centerman Greg Nemisz from the OHL Windsor Spitfire. Here are some articles and below that a player stats profile. The...
Calgary's looking for a forward, I guess we have depth at the back end? Definitely the teams have goalies galore, but what about a #1 C? Let speculation run ramped. Olli Jokinen to Calgary for Regehr? Tanguay goes to Montreal for a pick, and pucks. Flames get nothing,...
Tanguay to Montreal for the 25th draft 2008 pick. Calgary's 17th pick to Los Angelas who send it to Anaheim with their 28th pick for Anaheim's 12th overall pick. LA sends LW (RW) Mike Cammalleri to Calgary. Two separate deals. Calgary's pick to LA for Cammalleri and...
Upcoming is the 2008 draft, over three full months before puck drops for the 08-09 season. Who says hockey stops during Summer? This year the Flames will pick 17th but all eyes aren't on the relatively deep draft/draft position. Rather, talks are heating up about...
The legendary theme song that started all CBC NHL hockey broadcasts was quickly usurped by competitor CTV today. CBC tried to milk money from the granny composer (or actually the reverse, they probably didn't pay her), and CTV gobbled up the opportunity. More details...
Check out this post from a BC blogger on Naslund vs. Iginla. Interesting stats to review.
Typical Flames Show Up - Inconsistency is Their Game After a convincing 2-0 win at home against the Sharks in game 6, Calgary looked to move ahead to the next playoff round tonight in San Jose. Sports enthusiasts pegged San Jose with all the pressure coming into game...
For your reading pleasure. Real fans want the entire fix! Anything can happen now Game six aftermath. Post game thoughts both benches. Sharks look for answers. AP Flames force game seven. Game six recap. Battle tips in Flames favour. Flames game six recap Calgary Sun....
Flames Deliver Shut Out Performance There's one good thing about the recent snow dump in Calgary--it feels like hockey. Cold, snow, ice, that's what old-man winter brought over a month into Spring. Cold, stone-wall performance is what Miika Kirpusoff and the rest of...
Second, Third, Forth Lines No Shows Yet again, Calgary came out, displayed some grit and dominance in flashes, and also the reverse in defensive lapses. The top line for Calgary literally handed the Sharks the series on the tieing goal in Calgary Tuesday. Tonight they...
Calgary Blows Lead in Last Five Minutes The Flames did exactly what they shouldn't have done if they wanted to explore any chances of winning the series--give the Sharks life. For a brief period in the third Calgary's top lines literally shut it down, and were scored...
Terrible Start Ends With Awesome Win for the Flames The home town was ready, the Flames were ready, everyone was ready, except for Kiprusoff and the penalty parade. San Jose scored 3 goals within a span of three and a half minutes, and outshot the Flames 8-4 in the...
Calgary lost 2-0 to San Jose in a referee induced win for the Sharks. From the 10 or so penalties by the Flames half were deserved, half were dives, the other half conspiracy. But there is a silver lining underneath the rubble: Calgary can and WILL win this series....