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After covering hockey for a few years, one of my conclusions about player performance is pretty simple. It’s easier to find consistency when your game has a clear identity. In a sense, that’s why Mikael Backlund made so much sense to be the captain of the Calgary Flames. For a hockey club going through a…
Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has cleared the air about comments he made earlier in the week about the status of winger Jonathan Huberdeau’s recovery from hip resurfacing surgery. Huberdeau, 33, is still working through his rehabilitation process following the operation, which he underwent back in March. On Tuesday, Conroy raised eyebrows around the […]
Pals, over the past couple of seasons, the folks at Amazon Prime sub-contracted Sportsnet’s Monday national window and ran Monday Night Hockey broadcasts in Canada on their stream service. The broadcasts were pretty good, and seemingly Sportsnet enjoyed the money they got from contracting out one of their nights. As the new 12-year national TV…
Calgary Flames defence prospect Bode Laylin announced Thursday that he has committed to attend the University of Minnesota starting in the 2027-28 season. Laylin, 18, collected 11 goals and 38 points in 55 games with the USHL’s Tri-City Storm during the 2025-26 season, adding a goal and an assist in two playoff contests. The Flames…
MacKenzie Weegar has watched the exodus from Canadian NHL markets from an unusual vantage point, a player who loved his time north of the border but ended up leaving anyway, through no choice of his own. Speaking on TSN's "Overdrive " this week, the Utah Mammoth defenseman addressed the recent wave of star players pushing their way out of Canada. "As a Canadian-born player and to play in Calgary, for me personally, I had a great experience in Canada," Weegar said. "Calgary was an absolut...
As training camp approaches, the news is good, but not great, for Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau. As he continues his recovery from major hip resurfacing surgery in March, general manager Craig Conroy says he's doing well, but likely won't be ready to start the season. Craig Conroy on Jonathan Huberdeau: “He’s really doing well in the gym… He had a little bit of a setback maybe two weeks ago with his skating… We feel at the beginning of the year he’s going to be pretty c...
Friends, when the 2026-27 begins for the Calgary Flames, all indications are that their centres will include 37-year-old captain Mikael Backlund, pending unrestricted free agents Morgan Frost and Ryan Strome, and a to-be-determined fourth person. We’ll get to the free agency part of it all later on, but right now, let’s focus on their fourth…
Pals, if you’re anything like me, you consume a lot of hockey content. After covering the Calgary Flames and the National Hockey League for roughly 15 seasons, I still like reading, watching and listening to content about the sport – I didn’t play beyond the pee wee level, so I try to learn as much…
They’re back! On Thursday morning, after many teases, QR Calgary’s Sarah Crosbie finally made two fairly significant sports radio announcements during the morning show. The announcements were as follows: Derek Wills, the radio play-by-play voice of the Calgary Flames since 2014-15 on Sportsnet 960 The Fan, will return in that role, with QR beginning game…
Friends, the 2026-27 National Hockey League season is just around the corner. Training camp opens for the Calgary Flames in the third week of September, roughly around Sept. 17, and on paper, the big club’s roster seems reasonably set. Here’s a quick rundown of how we see the Flames’ roster and lineup shaking out ahead of…
In hockey, there’s a familiar refrain: If you’ve got goaltending, you’ve got a lot. That phrasing reflects the sheer importance of the goalie position as something that can hold a team that’s out-matched in quite a few games. Well, in Calgary, there’s another saying: If they’ve got Mikael Backlund, they’ve got a lot. In 2026-27,…
Folks, one of the biggest question marks for the Calgary Flames heading into the 2026-27 campaign centres on the health of their highest-paid player, Jonathan Huberdeau. Acquired in a blockbuster trade with the Florida Panthers in July 2022 coming off a season where he set the single-season assists record for a left wing, Huberdeau signed…
The 2026–27 NHL season is quickly approaching. Before it kicks off, we can take advantage of the dog days of summer and look ahead to the Calgary Flames and their…
The New Jersey Devils acquired forward Luke Evangelista from the Nashville Predators on Tuesday. Nashville received a conditional first-round pick and a second-round selection in the 2028 NHL Entry Draft. New Jersey previously received the conditional first-round pick from the Calgary Flames in a trade for defenseman Simon Nemec on June 23. Evangelista had a career-high 56 points (12G/44A) in 81 games with the Predators in 2025-26. The New York Rangers singed unrestriced free agent forwar...
Huberdeau collected 25 points in 50 games with the Flames in the 2025-26 season.
Professional sports can be a tough business, folks. Spots in the big leagues are so competitive that grabbing and keeping a spot is almost as much about luck as it is about talent. Years back, the Calgary Flames drafted a promising Swedish centre by the name of Mikael Backlund. Backlund was a really promising player…
Folks, if you’ve been following either us or our colleagues at Daily Faceoff over the last little while, you’ve probably noticed that July and August were Prospects Season. Over the last while, our pal Steven Ellis has been doing deep dives on the prospect systems of all 32 National Hockey League clubs. He’s capping off…
A former Calgary Flame is heading back to Europe. In the early hours of Monday morning, Swedish Hockey League’s Bryäs IF announced that Calle Järnkrok signed a three-year deal that expires after the 2028-29 season. Välkommen hem, Calle Järnkrok Brynäs IF kan idag meddela att Calle Järnkrok efter 13 säsonger i Nordamerika vänder hem till…
Elias Lindholm was sold to Boston Bruins fans as a " Patrice Bergeron " style center after being signed by general manager Don Sweeney in 2024. Despite that characterization, Lindholm has been a disappointing presence in Boston. Signed to a seven-year, $7.75 M average annual value deal, the Bruins counted on Lindholm to be the top-center in the organization. But after exiting the Calgary Flames organization, his star has waned. Year 3 The 2026-27 season will be Lindholm's thi...
A couple years back, the Calgary Flames had one of their top prospects debut as a full-time National Hockey League player. That player, goaltender Dustin Wolf, had a superb rookie campaign and back-stopped the Flames to within a tiebreaker of qualification for the Stanley Cup playoffs. On a personal level, Wolf received tons of accolades…
Pals, we’re into the very last days of the month of August. Several Calgary Flames prospects have hit the ice across European and Canadian major junior hockey. Several more will join them in a couple weeks when prospects training camp begins here in Calgary. As we prepare for the frenzy of activity that will come…
Every summer since 2015, we here at FlamesNation have compiled our annual Calgary Flames prospects rankings. In the dozen instalments of our voting, this was easily the toughest on our voting panel. Depending on how you want to define it, the Flames began their rebuilding process either with the trade of Elias Lindholm to Vancouver…
The 2026-27 season will be a tough one for the Calgary Flames. This past season was the first real rebuilding season for the Flames, after narrowly missing the playoffs in 2024-25. After 82 games, the Flames finished with the fourth-fewest points, yet dropped to the sixth overall pick. Expect much of the same in 2026-27…
Do you remember Frank Musil? Every once in a while, we take a look at a player who once played for the Calgary Flames in a series called “A Flame From the Past.” This player has to have played a significant number of games for the Flames. I’ll put every Flames’ season into a Wheel…
Way back in 2020, the Calgary Flames selected a talented, versatile young forward from the Western Hockey League’s Kamloops Blazers in the first round. Since their selection of Connor Zary in 2020, he’s managed to impress at the American Hockey League level and become an NHL regular. But nearly 200 games into his NHL tenure,…