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The Scrapbook

Franchise memory. Hall of Fame nights, anniversaries, and the quiet legends who never needed a fight card to matter.

7 dispatches

Ember-lit illustration of a stone staircase covered with tributes: several red sweaters bearing the number 13, bunches of flowers, hockey sticks propped against the steps, helmets and pucks. Embers drift up through the dark air above.

Aug 29, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Johnny Gaudreau's Unspoken Thirteen

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.

Riley Quinn

Stylized ember-on-ink illustration of a hockey player seen from behind in a near-black weight room, backlit so an ember halo traces his cap, shoulders and arms. He wears a red sweater reading ROBERTS above the number 10 and stands over a loaded barbell inside a squat rack.

Aug 25, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Gary Roberts' 48 Hours

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.

Riley Quinn

Ember-lit illustration of an empty arena radio broadcast booth looking out over a dark, empty rink. Two monitors show colour bars, microphones sit unused on the counter, and an open spiral notebook lies on the desk with a pair of reading glasses resting on the page.

Aug 13, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Peter Maher's Yeah Baby Night

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.

Riley Quinn

Aug 7, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Paul Baxter's Wrong Guy

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.

Riley Quinn

Ember-on-ink illustration of Matthew Tkachuk (No. 19, red) and Blake Wheeler (No. 26, white) fighting on the ice at Rogers Place during the empty-arena Edmonton bubble, sparks flying against a dark arena backdrop.

Jul 31, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Matthew Tkachuk's Bubble Brawl

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.

Riley Quinn

Ember-on-ink illustration of Colin Patterson in a red and gold Calgary Flames No. 11 jersey, hoisting the Stanley Cup overhead.

Jul 18, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Colin Patterson's Tuition Clause

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.

Riley Quinn

Stylized ember-on-ink split illustration of Don Maloney: on the left, a younger 1970s player in a red Flames Scout Wire hockey jersey raising a stick; on the right, the 2026 executive in a dark suit and red tie, lit by orange embers against a near-black background.

Jul 15, 2026 The ScrapbookFlames

Don Maloney's Miracle Camaro

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.

Riley Quinn

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