For the fourth year in a row, the closest that the Calgary Flames and their fans will get to the playoffs are televised games. As the Flames continue to plan for the future and the fans watch other teams mount a quest for the glorious Stanley Cup, there are some aspects of the playoffs that ...
In the early 90s, a young goaltender virtually unknown to the North American hockey world, was quietly but diligently honing his netminding skills in Turku, Finland. Miikka Kiprusoff played two seasons with TPS Turku before stepping into the international spotlight in 1995, when he was drafted in the fifth round by the San Jose Sharks ...
As the first round of the NHL playoffs winds down, the members of the Calgary Flames are surely strewn well across the globe. Some are playing for their respective nations at the World Championships, others honing their golf game, and perhaps some are even relaxing. It is peculiar to describe the 2012-2013 Calgary Flames as ...
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 ...
Winning the majority of their games in the last month of the regular season seemed counterproductive for the Calgary Flames, who were fighting for bottom-feeder status with the Colorado Avalanche and the Florida Panthers prior to the Iginla and Bouwmeester trades. After several steady seasons of mediocrity, the 2012-2013 season clarified that it was indeed ...
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 ...
Now that the dust has settled on the Iginla trade and ‘rebuild’ is not such a dirty word down at the Saddledome, where exactly do the Flames go from here? The intellectual honesty that’s been preached for years seems to have finally won out, but does that mean fans are looking at a three-year plan? ...
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 ...
For the last few seasons Calgary Flames fans have been clamouring for a youth movement. The team was one of the oldest in the league, averaging 30.2 years, and big-name players like Jarome Iginla, Miikka Kiprusoff and Jay Bouwmeester were tying up cap space, preventing the team from acquiring fresh and talented players at a ...
After making massive changes and gearing up for a long-overdue rebuild of their roster over the last month, the 2012-2013 Calgary Flames found themselves in an unfamiliar position- the win column. Since a 5-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks on April 6th, the Flames have gone 6-3-0 and have earned 12 of a possible 19 points. Ironically, the winning streak could not have come at a worse time
