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…
The Calgary Flames finally found a power supply, and Devin Cooley made sure nobody switched it off. Calgary scored twice with the man-advantage, then survived a frantic third period to beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 Thursday night, extending its winning streak to two games at…
Before Ben Kindel joined the Pittsburgh Penguins, he was one of the most gifted young forwards to pass through the Calgary Hitmen program. That Calgary connection made this week’s news especially unsettling at Scotiabank Saddledome. Kindel collapsed aboard Pittsburgh’s team flight Tuesday and required emergency…
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…
The Calgary Flames did not lose Connor Zary or Brayden Pachal on waivers. They did, however, send both players a message that could not have been much louder. Zary and Pachal cleared waivers Tuesday and were assigned to the Calgary Wranglers, one day after Calgary…
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…