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NHL Defensemen Trade Watch: Rasmus Andersson Headlines the Offseason Block
The NHL free-agent frenzy is over, but the trade winds are just starting. Rasmus Andersson, Dougie Hamilton, and Erik Karlsson headline a trio of defensemen who could shake up the offseason....
Canucks & Flames Go All-In: Will Bold NHL Trades Pay Off or Backfire?
The Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames made big trades well ahead of the NHL trade deadline. Were these good trades or desparate attempts at the playoffs?...
Blake Coleman, Dustin Wolf lift Flames over Jets
Dustin Wolf made 38 saves as the Calgary Flames ended the host Winnipeg Jets' five-game point streak with a 3-1 win on Saturday night.,Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists for Calgary, and Matt Coronato and Andrei Kuzmenko also scored.,Adam Lowry was the only Jets player to find the back of the ...
Flames rally to end Kings' winning streak
Matt Coronato tallied a goal and an assist while goaltender Dustin Wolf delivered a sparkling performance to give the host Calgary Flames a 2-1 comeback victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday.,Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for Calgary, which has won two consecutive games. Wolf made 31 saves...
Penguins build 5-goal lead, coast past Flames
Michael Bunting and Kris Letang each had a goal and two assists for the Pittsburgh Penguins in a 6-2 win against the visiting Calgary Flames on Saturday.,Blake Lizotte had a goal and an assist, and Alex Nedeljkovic made 30 saves for the Penguins, who have won three in a row.,Jonathan Huberdeau and N...
Jordan Eberle's OT winner lifts Kraken past Flames
Jordan Eberle scored 48 seconds into overtime as the Seattle Kraken defeated the visiting Calgary Flames 2-1 on Saturday.,Chandler Stephenson also scored for Seattle and Joey Daccord made 21 saves. The Kraken won their third game in a row and defeated Calgary for the first time at Climate Pledge Are...
Jonathan Huberdeau, Flames double up Flyers
Jonathan Huberdeau and Nazem Kadri each scored two goals as the host Calgary Flames topped the Philadelphia Flyers 6-3 on Saturday evening.,Huberdeau added two assists to complete a four-point night in support of Dustin Wolf (37 saves). MacKenzie Weegar notched a goal and an assist, while Mikael Bac...
The Golden Knights are trying to build the wall
No, not that wall. Calm down, Jethro. ...
The week in the NHL: Patrick Kane brings his walker to Detroit, the mystery of Corey Perry's demise, the Kings are Kings again
(UPDATE): According to reports, the Blackhawks have said Corey Perry was released because of an incident involving a team employee. No further details were provided by the team. Read More...
The Calgary Flames were undone by a gimmick
While sneaking into the bottom rung of the playoffs is something to be eschewed in the NBA given that it rarely leads anywhere, there’s still a perception in the NHL that all you have to do is “get in.” The NHL has dined out for decades on the idea that the playoffs set everything anew, and that one...
No surrender in Calgary
One of the familiar tropes in the NHL is the “poor ol’ Canadian team.” Lord Stanley’s chalice hasn’t been parked north of the border in 29 years, and there must be a reason for it. After all, the first two Great Bettman Lockouts were somewhat based on the fact that Canadian teams couldn’t have their...
The Calgary Flames will not go quietly into that good night
It’s the kind of trade that’s only cooked up at the bar, and almost certainly not before midnight. It’s only then and there that the right kind of desperation can be tuned into, as fans of whatever team it may be, try and live in denial for just a little while longer that their window of contending ...
Tale of the tape: Battle of Alberta vs. Battle of Florida
The second round of the playoffs worked, in part, the way that the NHL dreamed up when it went to this postseason format of divisional brackets. You can question the wisdom of it happening in the second round, but we’re getting the Battle of Alberta and the Battle of Florida now....
Gary Bettman must make the Oilers wear their ‘80s jerseys for the second round
Much like the Canadiens-Leafs series last year, this is why the NHL rejiggered its playoff system nearly a decade ago. To get things like the Edmonton Oilers vs. the Calgary Flames in the playoffs. OK, Gary Bettman’s NHL was only really concerned with getting Penguins-Capitals as often as possible a...
Flames fan regrets her choices
The Calgary Flames got up off the mat in the third period of their Game 5 against Dallas last night. Trailing 1-0 and not having scored at home in the series in seven periods, it was looking pretty bleak. The Stars however cannot ever score enough to ever put a team away, no matter how great Jake Oe...
The Dallas Stars, the piss in the cereal
The NHL playoffs haven’t had the most amount of drama so far. There’s only been two overtime games in the eight series combined, and not too many more that have been all that close or in doubt in the closing minutes of the third period. Some scores have been blown up by multiple empty-net goals, but...
How every team will lose in the 2022 NHL playoffs
As the chase to the Stanley Cup begins, the Eastern and Western Conferences have completely different outlooks. Colorado or Calgary look the part to be the Western Conference champions, and I’m not sure there’s anything the rest of the field of six can do about it. The Eastern Conference is as wide ...
Johnny Hockey is on one
Pacific time zone hockey tends to get ignored in the same fashion as west coast baseball. It’s hard to win an MVP or another award when your games are on at 9 and 10pm, as you’re cutting into hockey writers’ drinking time. You have to put on a world-class and ear-shattering whining campaign to get s...
Avalanche, Panthers and Flames done until Christmas
The NHL has multiple rosters’ worth of players in COVID protocols, with the number growing seemingly by the hour. The obvious thing to do, the thing that we would have expected in the era of “an abundance of caution” (remember that?) would be for the league to shut things down for a couple of weeks,...
Are the Golden Knights too hurt to trade for Jack Eichel?
The NHL’s biggest on-ice soap opera, the Jack Eichel trade derby, appears to have rounded the final turn. Last night, ESPN’s Emily Kaplan said that the Calgary Flames and Vegas Golden Knights are the finalists. Both teams are fine with the neck procedure Eichel wants but that the Sabres wouldn’t all...