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: 2 weeks ago

Flames Sunday Census: How many wins can Calgary pick up in October

The Calgary Flames enter the 2023–24 season renewed. Last year, the season started with the Flames being labelled as Stanley Cup contenders with a new crop of players. Everyone knows how they did that early-season label quickly turned into a curse.

Published: 1 year ago

NHL Rumors: Dustin Wolf to the AHL, and Two Flyers Prospects

Dustin Wolf being sent to the AHL by the Calgary Flames, and two Philadelphia Flyers prospects trying to earn a roster spot.

Published: 1 year ago

Flames: Markstrom’s Preseason Struggles a Cause for Concern

The success of the Calgary Flames this coming season largely lies in the hands of Jacob Markstrom. Through three seasons in Cowtown since signing a six-year, $36 million deal, he…

Published: 1 year ago

Matt Coronato’s preseason shows he’s ready to join the Calgary Flames

Calgary Flames rookie forward Matt Coronato is making a good impression in training camp. Coronato was the Flames’ first-round pick in the 2021 draft, selected 13th overall, and he is eyeing an NHL job at just 20 years old. He recorded four goals a

Published: 1 year ago

4 Calgary Flames prospects who should make their NHL debuts this season

Training camp is just about complete, with main rosters for the 32 National Hockey League clubs due on Monday at 3 p.m. MT. A bunch of players will get to experience their NHL debuts at some point his coming season. Here are four Calgary Flames prosp

Published: 1 year ago

Hart Trophy Rankings: Star-studded field pursuing McDavid this season

There's little doubt about the front-runner for the Hart Trophy as the NHL season approaches. Connor McDavid rightfully took home the hardware for the second time in three years and third time overall after piling up 153 points in 2022-23.Where the d

Published: 1 year ago

West Notes: Flames, Carlsson, Blackwell

The Calgary Flames have their leadership group to supplement new captain Mikael Backlund for the 2023-24 season, reports Sportsnet’s Eric Francis. Defenseman Rasmus Andersson, left wing Jonathan Huberdeau, center Elias Lindholm, and defenseman�

Published: 1 year ago

Flames reveal four assistant captains for this season

The Calgary Flames have finalized their leadership group for the 2023-24 season. While it was already known that Mikael Backlund will dawn the ‘C’ for the upcoming season, who head coach Ryan Huska was going to choose as his assistants remained

Published: 1 year ago

When and where you can catch every Calgary Flames jersey this season

The Calgary Flames jersey is one of the best in the NHL. Anyone who denies that simply has no taste.  Their current rotation of jerseys has been one of the best since the team went “full retro” a few seasons ago, and then added in their black �

Published: 1 year ago

Rasmus Andersson added to Calgary Flames leadership group

With Mikael Backlund being named captain, fans were waiting for official word on the rest of the formal leadership group (players who will wear “A”s for the Flames in 2023/24). With a maximum of three letters allowed to be worn in any game, the C

Published: 1 year ago

Calgary Flames announce leadership group: four players join captain Mikael Backlund as alternates

Mikael Backlund is the newly-minted captain of the Calgary Flames, but four others will join Backlund in the leadership group. Announced as alternate captains by the club on Saturday were Elias Lindholm, Chris Tanev, Jonathan Huberdeau and Rasmus And

Published: 1 year ago

Calgary Flames officially announce the 2023-24 leadership group

Most of the summer was spent speculating about who would be the next captain of the Calgary Flames, and there were a ton of names thrown out there. It came as no surprise that the Flames opted to name longtime tenured center Mikael Backlund as the te

Published: 1 year ago