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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…

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months 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

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Published: 11 months ago

Flames announce leadership group for 2023-24 season

The Calgary Flames have officially named forwards Jonathan Huberdeau, Elias Lindholm and defenceman Rasmus Andersson and Chris Tanev alternate captains for the 2023-24 season.

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Published: 11 months ago

Taranjot Vining kicks off Flames TV Punjabi with Nazem Kadri

Taranjot Vining is a contributing writer here at Flame For Thought, but he’s also the new host of Flames TV Punjabi, an initiative started by Harnarayan Singh 12 years ago. Given the passionate and large Punjabi contingent within the C of Red, Flam

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Published: 11 months ago