Four Flames First-Rounders, One Rink in Texas
Four Calgary first-round picks play each other in Texas on Halloween. A Flames fan's guide to North Dakota vs Michigan State: who they are, why it matters, how to watch.
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Four Calgary first-round picks play each other in Texas on Halloween. A Flames fan's guide to North Dakota vs Michigan State: who they are, why it matters, how to watch.
Anthony Dillett of the Dakota Student on what the C looks like at North Dakota now that Cole Reschny wears it in games that count.
Brian Williams drives 190 miles round trip for North Dakota hockey, and he has the ink to prove it. From "Unleash the Wiebe" to watching Reschny and Carels on opening night, this is the ultimate view from the Ralph.
Flames prospects Carson Carels and Cole Reschny at North Dakota media day: draft night on the farm, captain at 19, and coach Dane Jackson on both.
UND holds its media day today, and the season it opens has a date already circled: North Dakota against Michigan State in Texas on Oct. 31, with four Calgary first-round picks on the ice.
A day after the Flames sent him back to junior, Chase Harrington was named the Spokane Chiefs' 39th captain. Then he scored, set up the winner and dropped the gloves: the first Gordie Howe hat trick of his WHL career.
The Flames put their second-round pick in the NHL group at training camp, and two goalies noticed his shot. Here's the notebook on Chase Harrington, from the Spokane Chiefs to Mikael Backlund's wing and back.
The Flames dressed 18 skaters against Seattle on Sunday and almost none of them were the Flames. That was the plan. Here is what the night said about each of them, sorted by what it means for the cut.
North Dakota's players voted a sophomore their captain on Wednesday. Cole Reschny, the Flames' 2025 first-rounder, is the first underclassman to wear the C at UND since Dave Hakstol in 1990-91, and the youngest ever.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A fifth-round pick led the entire NCAA in scoring as a freshman, then showed up at the World Junior Summer Showcase and kept going. Here's the notebook on Calgary's most surprising prospect.
Wyttenbach followed a three-assist opener with two goals Monday, five points through two games. USA White beat Sweden 6-4 in the late game, with Jack Hextall picking up a power-play assist.
Five of the Flames' eight prospects in Windsor took the ice Sunday as the World Junior Summer Showcase opened. Carson Carels and two more are still to come this week.
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.
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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