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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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