Barring a miracle, the Calgary Flames will miss the playoffs for the second straight season. While there was some optimism this group could bounce back after a disappointing 2022-23 campaign, it has since become obvious the current roster simply isn’t good enough.
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.
We begin a new week on the ice, and hope to see better results than the week we've left behind. Monday has not given us many options, so we'll opt for a different approach in the player prop market, focused on some goal scorers.
At the 2018 NHL Draft, the Calgary Flames acquired Elias Lindholm from the Carolina Hurricanes in a five-player deal that also saw Noah Hanifin arrive in Calgary.
Not every win a team earns over the season is a pretty one – Saturday evening against Montreal falls under that category. That was not to say it wasn’t entertaining.
The Calgary Flames played a pretty good game in the first two periods of Thursday’s game against the Vegas Golden Knights, but they couldn’t translate zone time and scoring chances into goals.
Sometimes players step into roles where expectations may be too high for them to conquer, and while it may have seemed like that was the case for Nazem
I’m glad the Calgary Flames got some of their nice moments out of the way early because the majority of the night was the Colorado Avalanche treating the Flames like a punching bag.
Let’s start with a basic principle, friends: the Colorado Avalanche are a very good hockey team. If you look at the Avalanche and the Calgary Flames, on paper, you’d probably favour the Avalanche to win.
It’s time for another round of NHL rumours in the middle of your week. The March 8 trade deadline has passed, but there is still plenty to sort out. Teams that are likely missing the 2024 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs now shift their focus to the summer.
The Florida Panthers had themselves a fun afternoon at the expense of the new look Calgary Flames. They had a backup goaltender play some of the best puck of his entire career and maintained a long stretch of sustained pressure.
The Calgary Flames began their stretch drive on Saturday afternoon when they visited the powerhouse Florida Panthers. The Flames were far from their best, unfortunately, with a tendency for ill-timed turnovers at key moments in this game that led to goals against.
The buzzing phone. The eruption of text messages. The interrupted nap. At this time of year, that’s a fairly familiar sequence of events for an NHL hockey player.
We have good news and bad news, folks. The bad news is the Calgary Flames will be without one of their first-round selections, 2020 top pick Connor Zary, on a day-to-day basis due to an upper body injury.
Nazem Kadri scored the overtime winner to give the host Calgary Flames a thrilling 3-2 victory over the Eastern Conference-leading Boston Bruins on Thursday.
We won our lone NHL bet yesterday, and keeping it simple seems best as we navigate into a larger slate tonight. Despite 12 games, we've limited the field to just two of our favorite looks, both at plus-money.
It's a packed Thursday night of NHL action with some high-quality games all over the place. We're going to need to load up on a few.
The 2023-24 NHL season is back underway with the All-Star break in the rearview mirror now, and the Calgary Flames kicked off the homestretch of their campaign with a dominant 4-1 victory over one of the top teams in the league in the Boston Bruins.
Like many Calgary Flames, Nazem Kadri’s start to the 2023-24 season was very underwhelming. The 33-year-old, who is in just the second year of a seven-year, $49 million contract, had just one assist through his first eight games.
The New York Rangers have been red-hot during the start of their 2023-24 campaign. They have an 11-2-1 record through their first 14 games and sit atop the Metropolitan Division and are tied for 4th in the entire NHL behind the Vegas Golden Knights, Boston Bruins, and Vancouver Canucks.
Kadri would not elaborate if the use of the word ’restrict’ was mostly attributed to former-head coach Darryl Sutter, but most would guess this is the case due to Sutter’s infamous coaching style.
The foundation said in a statement that Kadri “donated the lead gift needed to propel this project forward,” and as a result, it renamed it to the Nazem Kadri Surgical Centre.
The Islanders reportedly were interested in Kadri, but were never able to create the cap space to make it work.
Nazem Kadri, 31, was an unrestricted free agent after finishing up a six-year contract with a $4.5 million cap hit.
The Islanders reportedly offered Kadri a seven-year deal worth $7 million per season.
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