Posts About "Mark Giordano"
Flames: Maintain and Playoff Gain the Aim This Season
October 1st, 2019 CALGARY — The key pieces are back, but can the Calgary Flames both repeat the performance and add a playoff push? Topping the NHL's Western Conference with 50 wins in 2018-19 whetted appetites in Calgary for a monster post-season that di...
NHLers Keeping an Eye on Unsigned RFAs
August 30th, 2019 Mark Giordano can't recall an off-season like this one. It wasn't that the captain of the Calgary Flames became just the fourth player to win the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman at the age of 35 or older, a memorable momen...
Giordano Brings Norris Trophy to His Seventh Season as Flames Captain
August 26th, 2019 CALGARY — Mark Giordano will have "Norris Trophy winner" attached to his name this NHL season. The only Calgary Flame to win the award that goes to the league's top defenceman says the label motivates him. "You want to prove it's not just a one-time th...
Mark Giordano's Norris Season Among Flames' Best Ever
July 18th, 2019 Since he inherited the captaincy from the departing Jarome Iginla, Mark Giordano has been arguably the Calgary Flames' most important player. While offensive dynamo Johnny Gaudreau scores more showy goals and perhaps two-way center Mikael Backlund does as much to shut down the opposition's top guns, Giordano has been the club's beating...
NHL Awards Voting (and Voters) Needs Reevaluation
June 20th, 2019 The NHL Awards were last night, and while most of the awards handed out were well-deserved and, for some, long overdue, there were a shocking number of voting results that were either questionable, irrational, or downright wrong. Let's look at some of the peculiarities in the voting results. Ryan O'Reilly of the St. Louis Blues poses...
The 2019 THW Year-End Awards
June 2nd, 2019 Welcome to the eighth annual installment of our Year-End Awards here at The Hockey Writers. At the conclusion of every National Hockey League regular season, we ask all active writers to submit their picks for the following categories. Voting was conducted by e-mail between April 9 and May 31, while voters were instructed to provide...
