Saturday will mark a full month since the Flames last played hockey. A 5-1 win over the San Jose Sharks that saw Dustin Wolf get within 8.9 seconds of his first NHL shutout.
Slovakia faced its biggest challenge so far in the 2024 IIHF men’s World Championship on Monday in Czechia, as they clashed with the United States in round robin action.
You have to wonder when NHL players are going to start getting paid for the intangibles. Sunday night, the Florida Panthers scored a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins to take a 3-1 series lead in their second round playoff series.
We’re a few days into round robin play at the 2024 IIHF men’s World Championships and a couple Calgary Flames players are representing their countries.
At this point, it’s almost a cliche to say that Mikael Backlund’s been a life preserver for the Calgary Flames. For the better part of the past decade, Backlund’s line has been relied upon to give the club quality minutes.
It would be an understatement to say that the 2023-24 Calgary Flames were a mixed bag of results. The standings were not good (unless you were rooting for the highest place the team could find in the draft lottery), but plenty of individual performances were encouraging for fans, teammates, coaches, and management.
The Calgary Flames begin every season with a pretty simple goal: to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you want your team to be able to do anything impressive, making it into the post-season tournament is a requirement.
The Scotiabank Saddledome was the site for exit interviews for the Calgary Flames on Friday morning. The Flames players met with coaches and management to discuss the season, briefly chatted with the local media, and then headed off to their off-seasons.
The Calgary Flames fell 4-1 in the penultimate game of the 2023-24 season to the Vancouver Canucks, but even though the score might seem a bit lopsided with the Flames not scoring a goal until the third period from Brayden Pachal (his second of the season) head coach Ryan Huska was a fan of the team’s effort and output.
The Calgary Flames got into a high scoring shot-for-shot battle with the Arizona Coyotes and were able to scrape up enough offence to find the win. The goals weren’t all conventional – this certainly wasn’t a goaltending battle by any means – but the Flames really jumped on the upper side of the shooting percentage.
The Calgary Flames got a shorthanded goal early and never looked back as they rolled over the Anaheim Ducks in a 6-3 win. The Flames handily controlled the pace of play for all three periods, only having about 10 minutes at the start of the third where they were collapsing a bit defensively.
The Calgary Flames didn’t have a great first period on Tuesday against the San Jose Sharks. But man, if you toss out the first 10 minutes or so, they were really good against a Sharks team that entered the game with the 32nd-best record out of the NHL’s 32 teams.
On Thursday night, for the first time in his National Hockey League career, Connor Zary was a spectator when the Flames played the Winnipeg Jets. On Saturday night, also for the first time in his NHL career, Zary was a centre when the Flames played the Edmonton Oilers.
A game the Calgary Flames certainly deserved a better fate for ended up as a loss Thursday evening against the St. Louis Blues. Calgary had the tying goal before the empty netter to make it 4-4 due to a miss called high stick as well as getting another one called back for being just offside.
The Calgary Flames headed into St. Louis on Thursday evening to conclude their brief two-game road trip, hoping to end their four game skid when they faced the Blues.
On Tuesday night, the Flames gave up the lead quickly and never saw the scoreboard go back in their favour. Despite winning the shots battle 39-24 and out-shooting the Blackhawks 34-12 in the final 40 minutes, the Flames fell 3-1 to the doldrum-dwelling Chicago Blackhawks, not really challenging the Chicago netminder Petr Mrazek to make big saves.
The Calgary Flames slowly let the determined Washington Capitals take over the game. Despite their ability to get high quality looks more frequently than the visitors, the Capitals never quit peppering young Wolf with shots.
Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil received a three-game suspension following his hit on Vince Dunn during Monday’s game. The hit happened relatively late in the contest after Jared McCann scored a short-handed goal.
He boarded Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn in the third period of Monday’s game.
Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil will have a disciplinary hearing Wednesday for boarding Seattle Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn on Monday night. Pospisil faces an extended suspension after hitting Dunn from behind during the third period of the Flames' 4-2 home loss, contact that Kraken coach Dave Hakstol called "garbage" after the game.
The Calgary Flames retained a promising rookie Wednesday evening by inking forward Martin Pospisil to a 2-year, $2 million extension.
Calgary drafted him in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL Draft. He’s already played more NHL games than all but two players taken that round, behind Philipp Kurashev and Paul Cotter.
With Martin Pospisil’s injury, the Flames were expected to bring someone up to take his place before Saturday's game against Edmonton.
The Calgary Flames got some good news regarding center Martin Pospisil, as he’s expected to only miss a couple weeks with his upper-body injury. Pospisil
The Calgary Flames have announced that center Martin Pospisil will not return to Thursday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs due to an upper-body injury.
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