Despite the losing season, the disastrous Ryan O’Reilly offer sheet gaffe, the trades of Jarome Iginla and Jay Bouwmeester, and the much-bandied about retirement rumours attached to Miikka Kiprusoff, I can honestly say that I have never been more interested in the direction of the Flames franchise. The Flames are destined for nothing more ...
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 ...
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 ...
There is a significant amount of uncertainty swirling around the Calgary Flames for the first time in over a decade. Call-in shows and local discussions over that time have made the gradual transition from discussing who the Flames will play in the opening round of the playoffs, to how well the Flames need to play ...
For the second straight meeting, the Calgary Flames out-played the Vancouver Canucks. For the second straight meeting between the two clubs, the Flames fell by a three-goal margin. Despite out-shooting Vancouver 41-29 and edging them by a 38-32 margin in the face-off circle, the Canucks defeated the Flames 4-1 in the 250th meeting between the ...
To say that the 2012-13 hockey season hasn’t gone as planned for the Calgary Flames would be a tremendous understatement. After being derailed by a 119-day lockout, the club found that it generally excelled at home and struggled on the road. With the trade deadline approaching, the team decided to pull the ripcord on the ...
The Calgary Flames are certainly correctly proving the adage that March roars in like a lion and peters out like a lamb. Beginning the month as a self-described playoff bubble team that just is in need of a big winning streak, the Flames currently find themselves coming off an embarrassing 8-2 loss at home to ...
Just a few days after sending team captain Jarome Iginla to the Pittsburgh Penguins for three future assets, the Calgary Flames have done the exact same thing with alternate captain Jay Bouwmeester. The team announced early Monday evening that they have traded Bouwmeester to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for minor-league defenseman Mark Cundari, ...
Heading into the shortened 2012-13 season, the Blues were expected to fare well with their solid goaltending duo of Jaroslav Halak and Brian Elliott. After posting 15 combined shutouts in 2011-12, Halak and Elliott looked to dominate the Western Conference yet again. Unfortunately for them, the season has not gone in their favor. After the ...
It’s over. The post-Jarome Iginla era in Calgary has officially begun. Iginla was shipped out by General Manager Jay Feaster last night to the Pittsburgh Penguins in return for college prospects Ben Hanowski and Ken Agostino as well as a first round pick. Last nights’ proceedings certainly became clustered once the Flames publically ...
