Scouting the pipeline and digging through the past. Independent Flames coverage, checked before it runs.
Ron Hextall's cousin put up only 28 penalty minutes in his draft year. In that family, that makes him the black sheep. Here's the notebook on Calgary's newest centre.
Two years on, Calgary has not issued sweater 13 to anybody since he left, and the club has never said why. A short accounting of how this city said goodbye.
Five of the seven most penalized Wranglers are gone, and so are eight of the nine defencemen who played regular minutes. Calgary answered on July 1 by signing three defencemen in an afternoon. Here is who is actually left to do the hard part in 2026-27.
Twenty-nine years ago today, Calgary traded Gary Roberts to Carolina. What almost nobody remembers is that the deal came with a condition, and the man at the centre of it had two days to prove a room full of doctors wrong.
We walked the block again this afternoon. The west and north faces of Scotia Place are being clad in metal panel, the east face is still bare green wrap, and the only side Calgary watches from is the side that hasn't changed.
Forty years after Game 4 at the Montreal Forum, the truth about Claude Lemieux and Jim Peplinski is stranger than the legend, and a good deal funnier.
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