How should the Calgary Flames set up their defensive pairings in 2023-24?

Things didn’t unfold in an ideal manner for the Calgary Flames during the 2022-23 season. Several players missed time due to injuries. Several players had to deal with changing roles and new expectations. Oliver Kylington missed the whole season de

Published: 1 year ago

Flames make several line changes to forwards and defensive pairs

Calgary Flames head coach Ryan Huska is continuing to experiment with his lines post trade deadline. The Flames had nothing going this past weekend, falling to the Florida Panthers by a 5-1 final on Saturday before losing 7-2 to the Carolina Hurrica

Published: 6 months ago

Here are all the picks the Calgary Flames have for the next three drafts

Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has made it a goal to retool his roster, and is doing a solid job of it in the early going. Conroy has had a difficult first year as a GM, as he was promoted to the position with a roster that had several

Published: 6 months ago

Flames have several options with abundance of cap space this offseason

The Calgary Flames will have a lot of money to spend should they choose to do so this summer. Having traded several of their highest-paid players this season, Nikita Zadorov, Elias Lindholm, Chris Tanev, and Noah Hanifin, the Flames currently have o

Published: 6 months ago

Episode 352: A Very Different Defence

The Trade Deadline has passed, and the Calgary Flames now have a very different-looking defence group. The guys discuss the new additions to the team, the loss of Noah Hanifin and if the deal was good for the Flames and if they're surprised Jacob Mar

Published: 6 months ago

Daily Faceoff’s Steven Ellis provides scouting reports on two new Flames AHL prospects

The Calgary Flames have added a lot of new faces to their organization since the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Most recently, they added two American Hockey League level prospects via a pair of trades, as the club acquired Riley Damiani and Artem

Published: 6 months ago

Exploring possible connections between the Calgary Flames and top draft prospect Ivan Demidov

The 2024 NHL Trade Deadline has passed. Now comes the push for the playoffs where half of the league’s teams get a chance at the Stanley Cup and the remaining half look towards the draft. The Calgary Flames are trending to be one of those teams in

Published: 6 months ago

Flames prospect Topi Rönni given one-year sentence in Helsinki District Court: report

Calgary Flames prospect Topi Rönni has been sentenced to one year of conditional imprisonment in connection with a case involving rape as a young person. The decision came in today from the District Court of Helsinki. The alleged incident took plac

Published: 6 months ago

Breaking down the Calgary Flames’ chances of making the playoffs this season

The Calgary Flames’ ownership made a number of major changes this season—like moving on from their top centre and three defencemen—but have been clear that the team still intends to make the playoffs this season. The playoffs however, still see

Published: 6 months ago

Flames Playoff Chances Slim but Not Impossible

Calgary Flames fans holding out hope for a playoff spot were dealt a serious blow this weekend. The Flames had a tough back-to-back set against two of the NHL’s best…

Published: 6 months ago

Barn Burner: A tough weekend out east for the Calgary Flames

On Monday’s episode of Barn Burner, Boomer and Pinder dissect what went wrong during a tough weekend of back-to-back losses to the Florida Panthers and Carolina Hurricanes. “It’s a different roster but it’s also a complete ass-kicking. It’s

Published: 6 months ago

Hanifin: 'I was never holding the Flames hostage' at deadline

Noah Hanifin refuted the narrative that he used his status as a pending unrestricted free agent to limit the Calgary Flames' trade options."I was never holding the Flames hostage," the defenseman said, according to Sportsnet's Eric Francis. "That was

Published: 6 months ago

Flames fans fully embracing tank after recent blowout losses

Calgary Flames fans are officially embracing the tank after the team suffered a pair of blowout losses over the weekend. In their first two games post-trade deadline, the Flames lost 5-1 to the Florida Panthers on Saturday and 7-2 to the Carolina Hu

Published: 6 months ago