The Montreal Canadiens have come a long way since finishing last in the East in 2012 and ultimately picking 3rd overall in last year’s draft. Coming into this season — lockout or no lockout — the general consensus across the sporting world was that the Habs were going to be a lottery-pick team once again ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
After closing out the first half of the season with three straight road losses, the Calgary Flames returned to the Scotiabank Saddledome on Wednesday night hoping for a fresh start. They skated away with a hard-fought 5-2 win over the Detroit Red Wings, but it was hardly the consistent effort that they were hoping for. ...
Six times this season, the Calgary Flames have had the opportunity to creep above the .500 mark in the National Hockey League’s standings. After posting a 0-4-1 record in their previous five attempts, the Flames broke through the proverbial wall with an impressive 4-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Flames ...
In whichever way the Flames season continues, there has never been so much evidence to support the two-fold identities of Flames fans- the optimists and the pessimists. For those not local to the Calgary area, the media and the fans are seemingly split on their opinions of the direction of the franchise. This is always ...
Two games under the .500 mark and with the sand in the hourglass gradually diminishing, the Calgary Flames hoped to gain some clarity on their season with two weekend games at the Scotiabank Saddledome. The worst-case outcome would drop the Flames to the NHL’s basement. The best-case outcome would bump them closer to the playoff ...
