The Calgary Flames spent the opening week of the season looking like a team trying to extinguish a fire with an empty bucket. Now they are the fire. Calgary’s 5-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday completed a perfect four-game homestand, extended its…
The Calgary Flames have stopped waiting for confidence to arrive and started manufacturing it themselves. Three straight wins have changed the temperature around a team that opened the season with five consecutive losses, and Saturday’s 4-1 victory over Detroit looked like their strongest proof yet…
Nobody hands out silver chalices for a Sunday win in October. Still, if the Calgary Flames were looking for proof that their season has a pulse, beating the reigning Stanley Cup champions was a lively place to find it. The Flames knocked off the Carolina…
The Calgary Flames finally found the combination to the win column Tuesday night in Anaheim. It required one rookie starting the scoring, another rookie dragging them level, Martin Pospisil providing the late muscle and Dustin Wolf making sure the whole thing did not wobble apart…
The Calgary Flames finally produced their best effort of the young season Saturday. They also found the most painful way yet to lose. A short-handed goal by Ryan Poehling at 5:35 of the third period broke a 2-2 tie and sent the Anaheim Ducks to…
Four games into the season, the Calgary Flames are still searching for their first point, their first complete performance and, increasingly, a way to stop one bad stretch from destroying an entire night. Thursday’s 7-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche at the Saddledome followed the…
Three games into the NHL season, the Calgary Flames are still searching for their first point, their first lead and anything resembling the identity they intended to build. Sunday’s 6-1 loss to the Seattle Kraken was not an isolated bad night. It was Calgary’s second…
The Calgary Flames begin their final season at the Saddledome with a roster designed to create more questions than guarantees. Can Matt Coronato become a dependable top scorer? Can Zayne Parekh and Simon Nemec grow into cornerstone defencemen? Can Dustin Wolf provide enough saves to…
Training camp began with a crowded room and plenty of players circling NHL chairs. Now the music is slowing. The Calgary Flames cut 16 players from camp Friday, leaving 27 — three goaltenders, eight defencemen and 16 forwards — competing for the places available when…
Aydar Suniev keeps shooting, keeps scoring and keeps making the Calgary Flames’ roster decisions more interesting. The 21-year-old winger struck again Thursday, scoring his team-leading third preseason goal in a 4-3 shootout loss to the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena. Calgary’s young lineup carried…