With the tumultuous 2013 season now firmly in their rear-view mirror, the Calgary Flames are now unabashedly preparing for their future. The upcoming NHL Draft will see the club pick three times in the first round, a record for the franchise, and this coming summer is anticipated as being one of the most important in ...
Cole Ully THW Close-Up Date of Birth: February 20, 1995 Place of Birth: Calgary, AB Ht: 5’11” Wt: 165 lbs Shoots: Left Position: Left Wing NHL Draft Eligibility: 2013 In hockey, size is important but it isn’t everything. Bigger players can have mobility problems, while smaller players are often faster. That said, size is less ...
The 2013 season was one of change for the Calgary Flames. Veterans Jay Bouwmeester and Jarome Iginla were traded prior to the trade deadline, allowing the team to audition youngsters at the NHL level. In addition, the combination of Miikka Kiprusoff’s declining play with the widely-held belief that he’ll retire in the off-season may also ...
The Calgary Flames officially put a lid on the 2013 hockey season with exit medicals and locker clean-out day at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Sunday and a media availability with general manager Jay Feaster on Monday. Despite the team’s overall on-ice performance this season, the tone was not sombre. The reason for some optimism was ...
Arturri Lehkonen THW Close-Up Date of Birth: July 4, 1995 Place of Birth: Piikkiö, Finland Ht: 5’10” Wt: 152 lbs Shoots: Left Position: Left Wing/Right Wing NHL Draft Eligibility: 2013 It’s hard to develop as a hockey player without experience. At a young age, Finland’s Artturi Lehkonen is amassing a lot of experience at a ...
After a fairly disastrous 2013 season, general manager Jay Feaster essentially pulled the plug on this incarnation of the Calgary Flames just prior to the NHL trade deadline. Jarome Iginla? Traded to Pittsburgh. Jay Bouwmeester? Gone to St. Louis. Blake Comeau? Off to Columbus. Miikka Kiprusoff? Not gone, but not getting nearly his prior workload ...
JC Lipon THW Close-Up Date of Birth: July 10, 1993 Place of Birth: Regina, SK Ht: 6’0” Wt: 181 lbs Shoots: Right Position: Right Wing NHL Draft Eligibility: 2011 Draft eligible for the third and final time in 2013 is Kamloops Blazers winger JC Lipon. The performance of Lipon this season has turned a few ...
The great Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.” While the Calgary Flames have five games remaining in their 2013 regular season schedule, their hopes for a post-season berth quietly disappeared on Wednesday evening. The Flames hosted the desperate Detroit Red Wings, themselves perched on the very edge of the Western Conference ...
Lucas Wallmark THW Close-Up Date of Birth: September 5, 1995 Place of Birth: Umeå, Sweden Ht: 6’0” Wt: 175 lbs Shoots: Left Position: Center NHL Draft Eligibility: 2013 European players are always fun to watch develop. The higher-end Europeans tend to play against men sooner than their North American counterparts, giving a sense of how ...
When the Calgary Flames traded away Jarome Iginla and Jay Bouwmeester prior to the NHL’s trade deadline, it likely operated as a white flag to the rest of the league and its fans: the re-build was underway. Two weeks later, it’s unclear if anybody anticipated that the team’s youth movement would get underway so quickly ...
