Posts About "Matt Stajan"
Backlund's Big Raise Looming
November 8th, 2017 There's no question Mikael Backlund is playing the best hockey of his career right now. He's finally moulded into the centerman the Calgary Flames hoped he'd become when they drafted him back in 2007. He set a career-high in points last season with 53 points (22 goals, 31 assists), surpassing his previous best 47 points from the 2015-16...
Flames Need to Swap These Three
October 23rd, 2017 There's a lot to like about the 2017-18 Calgary Flames roster, but there are also a few pieces that just don't quite fit the puzzle anymore. Players like Mike Smith, Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, and T.J. Brodie have been great, and obviously aren't going anywhere. Michael Ferland and Sam Bennett have undoubtedly struggled to start...
Who Could the Flames Lose to Vegas?
May 17th, 2017 The NHL Expansion Draft is under two months away and soon enough the thousands of mock expansion drafts will be nothing more than a shell of how the actual expansion draft shakes out. Unlike the case for many teams around the league, the Calgary Flames' management group isn't really in a position where they need to sweat heading into...
7 Years Later, Who Won the Phaneuf Deal?
January 31st, 2017 He spent parts of seven seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and captained them for six of them. Now, seven years after the Leafs traded for Dion Phaneuf, the defenceman platoons the blue line in Ottawa and fans of both the Flames and Leafs are left questioning whether or not there was a winner from the seven-player blockbuster between...
Handicapping Expansion Draft for the Flames
December 11th, 2016 When the National Hockey League celebrates its 100th birthday in November 2017, it'll do so with 31 member clubs. The Vegas Golden Knights will begin play in 2017-18 and the hockey operations departments of the 30 currently-existing NHL teams are frantically preparing for the expansion draft process, slated for June 2017. The Calgary...
Decision Time on Matthew Tkachuk
November 1st, 2016 For all intents and purposes, Matthew Tkachuk has come in with the Calgary Flames and made a positive impact. Through this time, we see some issues with his game, but these are largely outweighed by the absolute positives. In terms of possession metrics, Tkachuk is a darling — something the Flames have been longing for in their...
