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Two Atlanta Flames-era heavyweights spent a season hunting each other. The record says three clashes but legend says eight. Decades later, they sat down together and had a few beers about it.
Two Atlanta Flames-era heavyweights spent a season hunting each other. The record says three clashes but legend says eight. Decades later, they sat down together and had a few beers about it.
The Chiefs unveiled a $3 billion stadium with a swooping saddle-shaped roof. Calgary's own account had one line for it, in the Saddledome's farewell season.
Calgary handed the Devils two first-round picks and a prospect, then handed Šimon Nemec a $36.25 million cheque. The 22-year-old found out while standing over a stove in Slovakia.
Hockey Alberta just put the undrafted grinder from the 1989 Cup line into its Hall of Fame, the same night as Paul Coffey. The page worth keeping starts with the contract that made the Flames pay for his degree.
The world changed for Carson Carels this summer, except the one thing that made his nickname a demolition charge. Up in Calgary, that number is suddenly empty.
New York just put Calgary's president of hockey ops in the state Hall of Fame. The scrapbook page starts with the night the lowest-scoring All-Star won a fire-engine red Camaro, got a ticket, and traded up. Forty-odd years later, he's still hunting the prize that got away.
He was a middleweight in a league of giants, so Calgary's sheriff invented a fight trick nobody could solve. They called it black magic. Here's the move, and the one man it never worked on.
Long Island kid, Harvard sniper, $45.5 million Flame. Eight things worth knowing about Matt Coronato, including the plus-minus that lied about his whole season.
The Flames spent the sixth pick in the 2026 draft on a farm kid from Manitoba who might just be a top-pair defenceman. Here's the scouting notebook on him.
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