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

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Calgary Flames Top 10 Prospects for 2023-24

There are mixed reviews on the Calgary Flames prospect pool, but the top half of the ranking stacks up with anyone else in the league. According to Logan Horn’s farm…

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Chris Snow Will Not Wake Up After Brain Injury

Calgary Flames assistant general manager Chris Snow will not wake up after sustaining a catastrophic brain injury caused by lack of oxygen due to cardiac arrest Tuesday, his wife, Kelsie, confirmed this morning. Snow, who has been battling ALS since

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Breaking down Mikael Backlund’s new contract and what it means for the Calgary Flames

A few months ago it was widely reported that Mikael Backlund would not want to sign an extension with the Calgary Flames as he wanted to see how things would play out in the last year of his current contract. Well, how times have changed, Backlund ha

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Flames assistant GM Snow on life support, not expected to wake up

Calgary Flames assistant general manager Chris Snow is on life support. Dealing with a form of ALS, Snow’s wife Kelsie wrote on Wednesday morning that her husband “will not wake up” and is on life support after a medical episode earlier this w

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Flames assistant GM Chris Snow remains on life support

Calgary Flames assistant GM Chris Snow remains on life support awaiting an organ-donour recipient after suffering a “catastrophic brain injury” caused by cardiac arrest.

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Mikael Backlund is a great fit as the new Calgary Flames captain

When the announcement went out on Tuesday afternoon that the Calgary Flames had named Mikael Backlund as the club’s 21st captain, there were two strands of thought that were pervasive among Flames fandom: “Yeah, that makes sense” with a little

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3 Takeaways From Flames’ Preseason Win Against the Jets

The Calgary Flames played Wednesday night on the road against the Winnipeg Jets. Neither team had their top players playing but featured plenty of young talent and role players on…

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Flames Visual Recap: Calgary picks up a preseason shootout win over Winnipeg

Calgary Flames hockey is back in full swing and the preseason comes with no shortage of nonstop hockey. Playing in their fourth game of the preseason already, the Flames dressed a semi-decent roster while giving their best players rest still. Among t

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NHL Watchability Rankings: The bottom 16

As the new NHL season approaches, we've already put together power rankings, offseason grades, and even team rankings by tiers. But what about assessing the clubs purely from an entertainment standpoint?That's the goal of this exercise, which, as alw

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After Mikael Backlund extension, the Calgary Flames’ core must begin to erase memory of last season

The Flames will soon begin to see if their core can truly match up against the best teams in the Western Conference.

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Mangiapane scores shootout winner for Flames in pre-season win over Jets

Andrew Mangiapane scored the shootout’s lone goal in the Calgary Flames 3-2 pre-season win over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday.

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Calgary Flames Post-Game: Flames win a Wednesday night shootout in Winnipeg

Brought to you by odds site Betway! The Calgary Flames sent a plane full of hockey players to Winnipeg on Wednesday night to play a pre-season outing against the Jets. Their lineup was chock-full of AHLers and up-and-comers, but so were the Jets. T

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