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Nobody’s quite gotten a handle on the brave new world of NHL scouting yet
When it comes to finding sustainable, long-term success, the NHL’s entry draft is crucial. Over the years, NHL clubs have devoted tons of resources to finding an edge. Most recently, teams have been utilizing a combination of video, statistical models, and good old-fashioned on-the-ground scouting to prepare for the draft. Year over year, NHL teams…
Flames prospect Jack Hextall may be exactly what the organization needs
Gang, the run-up to any NHL entry draft is a bit of a frenzy. No matter how well-prepared you are, unless your name is Steven Ellis, Scott Wheeler or Corey Pronman, there will be players selected that you’re not as well-acquainted with than you would like to be. Heck, truth be told, when Lanny McDonald…
The last trade the Flames made with every other NHL team
Folks, we’re headed into the quieter part of the hockey summer. The NHL Draft is behind us, free agency is behind us, and we’ve seen several big trades. As many of the NHL’s general managers head to the lake for a little bit of a recharge, we thought we would update our tracker of the…
11 Flames prospects earned collegiate academic honours in 2025-26
Pals, it’s the summer, which means the hockey season is over… and so is the school year for many of hockey’s collegiate players. With the easing up of the NCAA’s restrictions on who was eligible to play college hockey, there’s been a surge of players from Canadian major junior into the NCAA. Between the academic…
Breaking down the 2026-27 Flames schedule
The Calgary Flames’ 2026-27 season begins with a traditional 7 p.m. weeknight game at the Saddledome. Their season ends with a traditional 8 p.m. Saturday night game at the Saddledome, currently the final hockey game of any sort slated for that historic establishment of sport. In-between, though, the Flames’ schedule has a few oddities and…
Flames announce 2026-27 regular season schedule
The National Hockey League announced the full schedule for the 2026-27 regular season on Thursday morning, unveiling the largest schedule in the league’s history. It’s a historic season on a few fronts. For the first time since 1993-94, the NHL schedule will be 84 games. For the last time, the Calgary Flames will be playing…
A clear trend has emerged through Flames GM Craig Conroy’s 23 trades (so far)
The 2026 NHL Draft was Craig Conroy’s fourth entry draft as general manager of the Calgary Flames. Since ascending to the top hockey operations job in May 2023, Conroy has made a lot of moves – the Blake Coleman swap with Minnesota was his 23rd separate transaction with another club. And taken in the aggregate,…
What will the Flames’ penalty kill look like in 2026-27?
Pals, not a lot went well for the Calgary Flames in 2025-26, and that trend contributed to the club finishing in 29th place overall – fourth from the bottom – last season. One thing that worked for the majority of the season, though, and worked quite well when it did work, was the penalty kill….
Flames to open final season at the Scotiabank Saddledome on October 1 against Seattle
Mark your calendars, Calgary Flames fans: the long goodbye begins on Oct. 1. On Wednesday morning, the National Hockey League announced the fall home openers for its 32 member clubs as part of its two-part schedule reveal – the full schedule comes out on Thursday morning. As part of that announcement, they revealed that the…
FN AHL Report Cards: Alex Gallant was among the AHL’s penalty minutes leaders in 2025-26
Alex Gallant is a well-known enforcer for the Calgary Wranglers with over 12 years of professional hockey experience. Gallant is the longest standing member of the Flames’ AHL affiliation with game experience dating back to the 2019-20 season with the Stockton Heat. He came along for the ride for the relocation and creation of the…
Zayne Parekh and Carson Carels headline 7 Flames on The Athletic’s top 100 prospects ranking
On Tuesday, The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler released his annual tiered ranking of the top 100 drafted NHL prospects. In the midst of a full rebuild, this year’s list includes seven members of the Calgary Flames drafted over the past few years. Headlining that prospect pool for Calgary are defencemen Zayne Parekh and Carson Carels, who…
Scotia Place: a street-level look at construction progress from Stampede Week 2026
We just completed the 2026 edition of the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth, folks. And everyone who wandered down to the Stampede grounds over the 10 days of Stampede – and Sneak-A-Peek, which doesn’t count – got a chance to take a look-see at the construction progress for the future home of the Calgary Flames,…
What will the Flames’ power play look like in 2026-27?
A lot didn’t go well for the Calgary Flames in 2025-26. They didn’t score very much. They were prone to defensive lapses at key points in games, occasionally leaving their goaltenders out to dry. Their power play, in particular, was a disappointment, ranking second-worst in the league with a 16.2% success rate. If the Flames…
Why Flames prospect Simon Katolicky could be the 2026 draft’s hidden gem
Every year, teams go into the National Hockey League’s annual entry draft looking for value above all else. Now, for teams with a lot of early picks, value basically centres around selecting the best available players early on. But as the draft gets into the mid-to-late rounds, NHL clubs make some calculated gambles. A year ago,…
FN AHL Report Cards: Connor Murphy brought consistency and composure when called upon
Connor Murphy has been in the Calgary Flames’ system since he graduated from Union College of the NCAA in the 2022-23 season. He has been primarily an ECHL netminder who can easily be called upon in the AHL when needed. This year, he had to make a quick same day trip to be available to…
FlamesNation Mailbag: Settling into the dog days of summer
Folks, we’re getting into a quieter period of the hockey calendar. The draft is done. Development camp is done. The Calgary Flames have completed most of their meaningful off-season business. The hockey operations group gets a chance to relax a bit before things start ramping up later in July with the World Junior Summer Showcase…
Carson Carels tops Daily Faceoff’s Flames top 10 prospects countdown
Since Craig Conroy took the helm of the Calgary Flames back in May 2023, the hockey club has very much leaned into their youth movement. Call it a retool or a rebuild or a re-whatever, but the long and the short of it is that the Flames have traded a lot of established NHL players…
FN AHL Report Cards: Andrew Basha’s split AHL and WHL season was the right call
Andrew Basha was a 2024 second round draft pick for the Calgary Flames who faced some injury setback last season but felt ready to try pro with the Wranglers in 2025-26. The left winger is a Calgary kid who played the last four seasons with the Medicine Hat Tigers and served as an alternate captain…
Can history repeat itself with Flames first-round picks forming a core blueline group?
The Calgary Flames made some franchise history a couple weeks back at the 2026 NHL Draft. When they selected Prince George Cougars defenceman Carson Carels at sixth overall, it represented the highest pick they’ve used on a defenceman in franchise history. It’s also the 13th time the Flames have used a first-round pick to select…
Additional moves have made the Matthew Tkachuk trade tree really complicated
Way, way back in July 2022, restricted free agent forward Matthew Tkachuk informed the Calgary Flames that he wouldn’t be signing a long-term deal with the Flames. Tkachuk’s decision, undertaken after speaking with other teams after receiving his qualifying offer – a right afforded to him under the collective bargaining agreement – led to a…
Should the Flames trade for Shane Wright?
What type of player is the most difficult to acquire in today’s NHL? Young, right shot centres. That’s why the name Shane Wright has been discussed as a trade option for the Calgary Flames in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported the Seattle Kraken have been working with Wright’s agent, Kurt Overhardt,…
How the groups of 7 are defining Craig Conroy’s Flames rebuild
Numbers can be weird, folks. Sometimes numbers recur in your life to the point where it becomes almost spooky. Maybe the recurring numbers mean something. Maybe it’s just a coincidence. Just over three years into Craig Conroy’s tenure as general manager of the Calgary Flames, the number seven sure does seem to be coming up…
A statistical look at the Flames’ 2026 NHL Draft class
The Calgary Flames made nine selections at last weekend’s 2026 NHL Draft. It was the fourth draft with Craig Conroy as general manager, and the additions he made were a mixture of some of the best draft-eligible players in their respective leagues… and a few bets made on players with oodles of potential that were…
Calgary Wranglers announce their 2026-27 season schedule
Start filling out your calendars, folks. On Thursday, the American Hockey League released the schedule for its 2026-27 regular season. As part of that release they announced the fixtures for the fifth season for the Calgary Flames’ AHL affiliate, the Calgary Wranglers. Like all other AHL clubs, the Wranglers will play 72 games: 36 in…
How long do the Flames have to sign their prospects?
Pals, one of the most frustrating things with the old collective bargaining agreement between the National Hockey League and its players was that the rules governing how long a team holds a players rights after they were drafted was very, very complex. In the 2013 CBA, which was largely in force until recently, the portion…
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