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Instant Reaction: The Flames lose battle to Seattle in penultimate pre-season outing
Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Calgary Flames game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! Back on Sunday night, the Calgary Flames iced an AHL-heavy roster to play a similarly AHL-heavy roster from the Seattle Kraken. The Flames’ group were okay but…
Former Flames forward Andrei Kuzmenko’s father killed in bear attack
The hockey world has received some very sad news out of Russia. Early on Thursday morning, reports circulated that former Calgary Flames forward Andrei Kuzmenko’s father, Alexander, had been killed in a bear attack in Russia. Russian media network REN TV were among the first outlets with the news. In their article, translated from Russian,…
Flames Pre-Season Game Day: A trip to scenic Seattle (7:40pm MT, Flames.com)
The new, shorter pre-season schedule will conclude for the Calgary Flames on Saturday night in Edmonton. But before the curtain is drawn on their exhibition calendar, it’s time for a rematch with the team that beat them on home ice in their pre-season opener, the Seattle Kraken. The Flames are sending a mostly AHL-bound group to the…
4 Flames prospects made their Canadian Hockey League debuts last week
Friends, hockey season has begun! When it comes to the Calgary Flames, we’re at the point where a good chunk of their system’s prospects have started playing, and a bunch more will get going quite soon. Most notably, four of their prospects made their Canadian Hockey League debuts over the weekend – three in the…
Scotia Place: a street-level look at construction progress from late September 2026 (and an off-season snapshot)
Man, the summer went by too quickly, didn’t it? The Calgary Flames have already played their final two pre-season games at the Scotiabank Saddledome. They will hit the ice for their final home opener on Oct. 1 – that’s one week away! And as the final 42 regular season dates at the Saddledome tick away,…
18-year-old Flames prospect Chase Harrington will play on Thursday against Seattle
On Thursday evening, the Calgary Flames will play the third of their four scheduled exhibition games as part of their 2026-27 pre-season schedule. And when they suit up against the Seattle Kraken, they’ll have a very interesting player in their lineup. 18-year-old winger Chase Harrington. During his media availability following Wednesday’s practice at the Saddledome,…
Flames roster news: Two players sent to Wranglers, camp roster down to 43
The Calgary Flames have made a couple roster moves on Wednesday, as they regroup after Tuesday’s pre-season win against Vancouver and prepare for Thursday’s pre-season game in Seattle. Headed to the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers are defenceman Abram Wiebe and forward Luke Philp. Wiebe is on an entry-level NHL contract and is waiver exempt…
Some big Wranglers questions may be answered early this season
The countdown is on for the season opener for the Calgary Wranglers and there are quite a few things to establish at the start of the new year. With them clearing out most of last year’s roster, new players have a chance to make their mark in the Flames prospect pool. Not every lingering question…
Which Flames may be hitting NHL waivers soon?
The Calgary Flames will need to make some decisions ahead of Sept. 28’s roster finalization deadline. As it stands, the Flames’ roster sits at 41 players with NHL contracts, 18 more than the maximum of 23. The deadline to final rosters will be on Sept. 28 at 3:00 p.m. MT, meaning the Flames will need…
The Flames’ special teams units start coming into focus against Vancouver
The Calgary Flames hosted the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday evening at the Scotiabank Saddledome, winning by a 3-1 score. The Canucks brought a fairly youthful – AHL-level, really – line-up, and so the flow of the game was rather tilted towards the home side. But that sort of game gave the Flames an opportunity to…
Ryan Pike discussed the pre-season and the Flames’ rebuild on West Coast Conversation
The Calgary Flames reached the midway mark of their pre-season schedule on Tuesday evening when they hosted – and beat – the Vancouver Canucks at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Ahead of that game, on Tuesday afternoon, Daily Faceoff Calgary managing editor Ryan Pike joined Daily Faceoff Vancouver’s David Quadrelli and Harman Dayal to discuss all sorts…
Instant Reaction: Veteran-heavy Flames corral youthful Canucks in pre-season clash
Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Calgary Flames game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! Gang, you know how sometimes, you can see two lineups on paper and kind of have an inkling of how a hockey game is going to…
Flames announce 2026-27 jersey schedule, including Hometown Remix alternate and return of 2004 black C jersey
During the final National Hockey League season at the Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary Flames fans will be treated to some new threads, some classic threads, and some retro threads. The Flames announced their 2026-27 jersey schedule during the first period of Tuesday night’s pre-season clash with the Vancouver Canucks, and the schedule includes the return of…
NHL Notebook: Sam Steel and Tim Washe sign four-year extensions
The 2026-27 National Hockey League season is here, well, at least pre-season is. That doesn’t mean that teams have quit signing players to extensions. The latest of which was given out by the Dallas Stars, who signed Ardrossan, Alberta product Sam Steel to a four-year deal with an annual cap hit of $3.7 million. Steeler…
Trio of new Flames set to make preseason debuts Tuesday vs. Canucks
With the Calgary Flames set to deploy a veteran-laden lineup in their preseason clash with the Vancouver Canucks at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Tuesday, fans will get the opportunity to take a first look at the team’s three major offseason acquisitions on home ice. Simon Nemec, Jake Middleton, and Maxim Tsyplakov are all expected to…
Flames Pre-Season Game Day: A clash with the Canucks (7pm MT, SN1)
After both starting their pre-season schedules with identical 4-2 losses to the same opponent over the weekend, the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks are meeting in the second of four exhibition games for each club. It’s also the final exhibition National Hockey League game in the long history of the Scotiabank Saddledome! The game starts just after…
Notes from last game: Aydar Suniev shines in Flames’ first pre-season game
The 2026-27 season has finally kicked off, only if it’s pre-season. While the Calgary Flames fell 4-2 to the Seattle Kraken, there were still a handful of strong performances from Flames’ players, mostly from their prospects. There weren’t a whole lot of veterans in the Flames’ lineup, and those that were had a rather tough…
An eventful final college season prepared Flames prospect Jonathan Castagna for the unexpected
This fall, Calgary Flames prospect Jonathan Castagna is embarking upon a new challenge, a professional hockey career. But his third and final season with the Cornell University Big Red men’s hockey team was full of ups, downs, a mid-season trade – and a lengthy ice delay early in the season. A product of the Toronto…
Could Aydar Suniev push for an NHL roster spot to start the season?
>With the length of training camp and the number of pre-season games cut down, it really limits the time a player has to make an impression on his coaches. You really have to take advantage of your opportunities, and that is exactly what Aydar Suniev has done. So far, Suniev has played just two games:…
Flames general manager Craig Conroy spent a half-hour chatting with Boomer and Rhett
Friends, the Calgary Flames are in the midst of their exhibition schedule. They have to declare their season-opening roster in about a week, and they begin their regular season on Oct. 1. That’s next Thursday. But in the midst of all this hubbub, Flames general manager Craig Conroy took advantage of a recovery day for his…
Monday Mailbag: Starting a busy week of pre-season games with reader questions
The Calgary Flames played their first pre-season game of 2026-27 on Sunday evening. They will play their final pre-season game on Saturday evening, and have their roster essentially locked in for the regular season by this time next week. Camp goes by fast, folks. As we gird ourselves for a hectic week of hockey and hockey-related…
Flames prospect Jakob Leander is following in Axel Hurtig’s footsteps with the Hitmen
On Friday night, the Calgary Hitmen began their 2026-27 regular season with a home date against the visiting Red Deer Rebels. During their 3-2 shootout win over the Rebels, the Hitmen blueline featured a big-bodied Swedish defenceman wearing a number-six sweater. However, it wasn’t Calgary Flames defence prospect Axel Hurtig patrolling their blueline. Instead, it…
Flames prospect Chase Harrington is soaking in his NHL training camp experience
The Calgary Flames’s performance at the 2026 NHL Draft received rave reviews from those in the public scouting sphere for accumulating a lot of good young hockey talent with their draft picks. But with college hockey being such a strong proving ground for up-and-coming talent, the Flames’ first two players selected in the 2026 NHL…
Instant Reaction: The pre-season gets Kraken, but Flames lose to Seattle
Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Calgary Flames game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! The Calgary Flames opened their pre-season schedule on Sunday evening, hosting the Seattle Kraken in the last first pre-season game at the palatial Scotiabank Saddledome. It…
Flames roster news: Three players sent to Wranglers, camp roster down to 45
In advance of Sunday’s pre-season opener for the Calgary Flames against the Seattle Kraken, the hockey club has trimmed their training camp roster by assigning a trio of players, all on American Hockey League contracts, to the AHL’s Calgary Wranglers. Headed to Winsport are defencemen Kyle Walker and Kent Anderson and forward Alex Gallant. Walker,…
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