For Gaudreau family, Thanksgiving a time for friendship and reflection

Ryan Leslie visits with the Gaudreau family and sits down with Johnny’s wife Meredith to catch up as the family celebrates Thanksgiving ahead of a matchup between Johnny’s two NHL teams, the Calgary Flames and the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Published: 11 months ago

Nazem Kadri has had a rough start to the 2024-25 season, but numbers suggest he should rebound

Nazem Kadri was downright awesome in 2023-24. He led the team in points with 75 and seemingly carried them on his back most nights. In 2024-25 however, that hasn’t been the case through twelve games. Kadri has looked visibly frustrated on some nigh

Published: 11 months ago

Clark Bishop's leadership for young Flames prospects makes him ideal Wranglers captain

For the past couple of seasons, people around the Saddledome would quietly believed Clark Bishop was never far from a call-up to the Calgary Flames. On Tuesday, though, the 28-year-old saw his importance to the Calgary Wranglers become formalized whe

Published: 11 months ago

Flames Need to Set Example and Healthy Scratch Pospisil

Sunday night was far from a banner-worthy performance from Martin Pospisil. Facing off against the Edmonton Oilers, the Calgary Flames were able to erase a two-goal deficit to get things…

Published: 11 months ago

Throwback Tuesday: The Flames win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history with a 4-2 series victory over the Canadiens

On Tuesday, the Calgary Flames the Montréal Canadiens for the first time in the 2024-25 season. In a new series called Throwback Tuesday, we’ll look at events in the Flames’ past, usually revolving around the team they’ll play soon. In the fir

Published: 11 months ago

Oilers' McDavid admits that he is a big fan of Flames jerseys

It should be no secret that Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid harbours a deep hatred for his rival Calgary Flames, but he doesn’t hate everything about them. Sports on Prime Canada recently released a promo on social media that saw them askin

Published: 11 months ago

Hot topics: Do we expect the losses to pile up for the Calgary Flames?

Will the Calgary Flames still be above .500 when they return from a three-game trip? That’s a fair question for a team that has cooled off substantially, losing five of their past six. They have been outscored by a combined count of 23-11 over that

Published: 11 months ago

FlamesNation Mailbag: Making sense of things a month into the season

Folks, believe it or not, but the Calgary Flames have already played a month (and 12 games) of the 2024-25 season. They’re already roughly 15% through their schedule. And so far, they haven’t looked all that bad – though their game has had some

Published: 11 months ago

Flames’ Andrei Kuzmenko Responds to Coaching Challenge

The post Flames’ Andrei Kuzmenko Responds to Coaching Challenge appeared first on NHL Trade Talk. Andrei Kuzmenko has started well for the Calgary Flames. However, his coach has asked him to move his feet. How's he responding? The post Flames’ An

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Rating the Calgary Flames’ take on Halloween

The spookiest day of the year has come and gone. While some may have spent the day watching Halloween movies, dressing up in costumes, carving pumpkins, or trick or treating, I decided to spend some of my day going through and recapping some of the c

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Calgary Flames Prospect Roundup: Hat trick helps Matvei Gridin to five-point week

The Calgary Flames’ second first-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft is really starting to catch fire in the QMJHL. Matvei Gridin led the way with a hat trick and five points this week, but he’s not the only Flames prospect who played well! Another

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Beyond the Boxscore: Flames get enough looks but not enough goals in loss to Oilers

The Calgary Flames got enough good looks but couldn’t convert enough of those into goals as they fell 4-2 to the Edmonton Oilers Sunday evening. CF% – 49.93% || SCF% – 46.6 || HDCF% – 65.98% || xGF% – 48.13% It’s a Team Game – It is ver

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3 Takeaways From Flames’ 4-2 Loss to the Oilers

The Calgary Flames battled back, but were unable to complete the comeback versus their provincial rival Edmonton Oilers on Sunday night. It was a valiant effort from Alberta’s southern NHL…

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