Tim Hunter's Atlanta Ex
Atlanta sold Rick Bowness for cold hard cash. Eight years later he is in a headset on the Winnipeg bench in Calgary, throwing a right hand at a Flame, and you can decide for yourself which bill he was settling.
Atlanta sold Rick Bowness for cold hard cash. Eight years later he is in a headset on the Winnipeg bench in Calgary, throwing a right hand at a Flame, and you can decide for yourself which bill he was settling.
The Flyers moved a contract their previous general manager signed. Calgary absorbed it and got a 20-goal penalty killer who never missed a night.
Twenty-seven years ago today, Calgary signed up the goaltender who had spent a decade beating them. He arrived as the number one, had to waive a no-trade clause to get here, and gave the Flames one great night out of a hard year.
His dad is Ron Hextall's cousin, and he 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.
Gaudreau, Tkachuk, Lindholm, Markstrom: every other player from Calgary's 2022 playoff team is gone. Backlund is still here, and his new contract sets up a run at Jarome Iginla's franchise games-played record.
Thirteen years after he walked from Toronto to Parliament Hill, Fleury spent Sunday morning walking downtown Calgary with the Breaking Free Foundation.
The voice of the Flames for 33 seasons died Thursday at 79. He called the only Stanley Cup this city has ever won, from a radio booth in the Montreal Forum, and no archive in the country kept a copy of it.
Hockey Canada suspended five players from the 2018 world junior team on Wednesday, including a former Flame. The suspension covers Hockey Canada programs and nothing else, and the organization did not say why the penalties differ.
Olivia W. is at CN Centre for every home game she can get to. She wrote Carson Carels a farewell, so we asked her about the warm-up routine she knows by heart, the award he kept on his wall, and the jersey she designed.
The record says Paul Baxter fought Guy Carbonneau in the 1986 Cup Final, and that he won a ring on the Flames bench in 1989. He did neither. The story of a man the books keep putting in rooms he was standing next to.
Putin and Xi, a global pandemic, a war in Ukraine, an NHL suspension, and a Chinese team that plays in Russia. Somehow four men from Calgary ended up in Saint Petersburg. We got nothing back.
Calgary has 16 players signed for 2027-28, the season Scotia Place opens, including both goaltenders. Eight Flames prospects just wrapped the World Junior Summer Showcase. Four project into the NHL lineup on opening night and four into the Wranglers, and that combined roster is the clearest look anyone has at the next Flames team.
Wyttenbach scored twice more as the United States closed the showcase with a 7-2 win over Canada, finishing with eight points in four games. Cole Reschny had the best per-game rate of any Calgary prospect in Windsor.
Six years ago this weekend, the Flames played a playoff game in an empty NHL arena inside the COVID bubble. A Tkachuk hit ended Mark Scheifele's night and started a public war of words with Jets coach Paul Maurice. The scrapbook page worth keeping is what the record actually shows.
A day after his box score showed three second-period assists, Cole Reschny tells TSN how Canada erased a 3-0 deficit against Finland: hits, pucks deep, and wearing the other team down. He also opens up about wearing the C for the first time.
Reschny, back in the lineup after Wednesday's scratch, set up all three of Canada's second-period goals in a 5-3 comeback win over Finland, then scored the shootout winner in a bonus post-game session. Sweden rallied from 2-0 down to beat the U.S. 5-2 in the early game.
We walked the block in late July. Steel now wraps the whole bowl at Scotia Place, the Saddledome opens its farewell season October 1, and the same contractor is behind both buildings.
Stockselius broke a third-period tie and added an empty-netter as Sweden beat Canada 5-3 Wednesday. Ethan Wyttenbach's point streak continued in a 3-2 loss to Finland, six points through three games.
Calgary's sixth-overall pick sat in a meeting room in Windsor, heard what Canada wants to be this year, and couldn't keep his legs still. Bronze wasn't good enough, and the tournament comes to Alberta on Boxing Day.
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