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Assessing every Flames player in the 2026 NextGen Showcase
The Calgary Flames’ prospects hosted the Edmonton Oilers’ prospects at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Monday night in the NextGen Showcase. The Oilers won by a 6-1 score, but the Flames played decently for big chunks of the game. Here are our assessments of each player who suited up for the Flames against the Oilers on…
Instant Reaction: Flames fall to Oilers in NextGen Showcase
The Calgary Flames hosted the Edmonton Oilers on Monday evening in a clash of each club’s prospects training camp rosters, dubbed the NextGen Showcase. Effort was on display for the home side, but execution wasn’t quite there, as the Flames’ prospects dropped a 6-1 contest to the Oilers’ prospects at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Flames lines…
Flames Prospects Game Day: The NextGen Showcase against Edmonton (6pm, Flames.com)
Friends, it’s time once again to do that hockey. The Calgary Flames will welcome the Edmonton Oilers to the historic Scotiabank Saddledome for a prospects clash, entitled the NextGen Showcase! The game is intended to be the centrepiece of each club’s prospects training camp, and you can imagine players on both sides of the ice will be…
A brief history of Calgary Wranglers season-opening goals
Last fall, every player who had ever scored a season-opening goal for the Calgary Wranglers was on the roster at the start of the year. By the summer of 2026, only one remained. In the first two years the Flames’ AHL affiliate came to Calgary, Jeremie Poirier had the title of the season’s first goal…
Monday Mailbag: Tackling questions about prospects, training camp and Saddledome ice
The Calgary Flames play hockey on Monday night, as their prospects hit the ice to begin the final year of hockey at the historic Scotiabank Saddledome. As we prepare for the NextGen Showcase, and the rest of the season that follows it, let’s check in with our mailbag! What prospects do you think are being…
Scenes from practice: Flames youngsters prepare for NextGen Battle of Alberta
Calgary Flames prospects training camp continued on Sunday afternoon at the historic Scotiabank Saddledome, with the second day of on-ice action. As Wranglers bench boss Brent Sutter put the kids through their paces ahead of Monday night’s NextGen Showcase against the Edmonton Oilers’ prospects, here’s what we saw at the ‘Dome. Our general impressions The…
Why Flames captain Mikael Backlund could have a milestone week in March
Way back on June 22, 2007 in Columbus, Ohio, the Calgary Flames selected Swedish forward Mikael Backlund at 24th overall in the 2007 NHL Draft. Way back on Jan. 8, 2009, Backlund made his National Hockey League debut at home, playing 10:44 in a 5-2 Flames victory over the New York Islanders. During the 2026-27…
How the Flames’ and Oilers’ prospect training camp rosters compare
Since Craig Conroy became general manager of the Calgary Flames in May 2023, his club has made 33 draft choices. Up the road, the Edmonton Oilers have made 20. In the same span, though, Edmonton’s appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals. The contrast in directions between the two Alberta hockey clubs will be pretty apparent…
4 Flames players whose roles could grow in Jonathan Huberdeau’s absence
On Thursday, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy finally confirmed a rumour that fans and media in this city have been discussing for weeks: Jonathan Huberdeau will not be ready for the start of the 2026-27 regular season. The veteran winger appeared in just 50 games with the Flames in 2025-26 before undergoing a season-ending…
Scenes from practice: Flames prospects hit the ice for training camp
The Calgary Flames hit the ice for the first time officially in the 2026-27 season – well, their prospects did at least – on Saturday afternoon at the palatial Scotiabank Saddledome. 23 players participated in the main practice group as the Flames’ prospects began preparations for Monday night’s clash with their Edmonton Oilers counterparts in…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Where are the Flames in their rebuilding process?
On a few levels, it feels like Jay Feaster got a raw deal. Best known in hockey for his stint as general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, for which he has his name engraved on the Stanley Cup, Feaster joined the Flames as an assistant general manager in 2010 and soon succeeded Darryl Sutter…
Grading every trade Craig Conroy has made with the Flames: part 5
In part four of this series we handed out three A grades to Craig Conroy for his work on the Rasmus Andersson, MacKenzie Weegar, and Ryan Strome trades. Will we be handing any A’s for the three most recent trades the Flames have made? Let’s dive into it. As always, I am going to hand…
Scotia Place: a street-level look at construction progress from early September 2026
Pals, it is September! Not only is it September, but the on-ice portion of Calgary Flames prospects training camp begins on Scotiabank Saddledome ice on Saturday. As that part of the club’s future is being built on the ice, a block and a half to the north the infrastructure side of the club’s future is…
Who are the 9 try-out players coming to Flames prospects training camp?
The Calgary Flames have begun their 2026-27 season journey, with prospects training camp kicking off on Friday! In addition to a slew of the organization’s exciting young players coming to camp, there are a few names on the camp roster that might be unfamiliar to Flames fans. Fear not, we’ve got a breakdown of each…
Flames announce 2026-27 prospects training camp roster
Friends, welcome back to Calgary Flames hockey. Well, prospects training camp, at least. The Flames have announced their roster and schedule for prospects camp. This is the first year of the new collective bargaining agreement, which features more regular season games but has cut the pre-season in half. Combined with just a single prospects game…
Three-time Olympic medallist Meaghan Mikkelson returns to Flames radio broadcasts as colour commentator
Good news: QR Calgary has managed to keep the band together. For the past three seasons, the radio team for Calgary Flames broadcasts has been host Pat Steinberg, play-by-play commentator Derek Wills, and colour commentator Meaghan Mikkelson. When QR Calgary announced their broadcast plans recently, they announced the returns of Steinberg and Wills, but nobody…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can the Flames new-look penalty kill remain strong?
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: 2025-26 was not a great season on the ice for the Calgary Flames. Not a ton worked for the Flames. They didn’t score very much at even strength. They were prone to untimely defensive breakdowns which made life tough on their goaltenders. Their power play was…
Grading every trade Craig Conroy has made with the Flames: part 4
Nine trades down, six more to go! In part three we looked back on some great trades made by Craig Conroy including the grand slam Jacob Markstrom deal. And now it’s time to break down some of his work from around the 2026 trade deadline. As always, I am going to hand out letter grades…
Flames goalie Devin Cooley is learning linear algebra in his spare time
Friends, at this point, very little you could tell us about Calgary Flames goaltender Devin Cooley would surprise us. A product of Los Gatos, California, hardly a hockey hotbed, Cooley has worked himself into a steady job as Dustin Wolf’s understudy in the Flames’ net through a lot of hard work and determination. For those…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Matt Coronato lead the Flames in scoring again?
The 2025-26 season was a weird one for the Calgary Flames in several ways. The Flames registered just 2.54 goals-per-game, the ninth-lowest tally in franchise history, and the lowest per-game output they’ve had since 2013-14 – appropriately, the last time the franchise embraced a youth movement. With so many established players headed out of town in…
Grading every trade Craig Conroy has made with the Flames: part 3
Six trades down, nine more to go. Let’s dive into trades 7-9. As always, I am going to hand out letter grades (A, B, C, or D) for each trade. For the sake of efficiency, I am only going to grade the 15 NHL trades Conroy has made. Pick swaps at the draft and minor…
Flames injury news: Jonathan Huberdeau won’t be ready to start the regular season after hip surgery
Folks, if there’s been one lingering question for the Calgary Flames throughout their 2026 off-season, it’s been some version of “Hey, I wonder how Jonathan Huberdeau is doing?” The highest-paid player in Flames franchise history, signed to the largest contract in franchise history shortly after his arrival via a trade with Florida in the 2022…
How to watch every Flames game from your home in 2026-27
Gang, the folks at Sportsnet officially announced their national broadcast plans for the 2026-27 season on Wednesday morning, meaning we now have some clarity in terms of how hockey fans can watch their favourite teams from their living rooms in the coming season. For Calgary Flames fans, here’s what you need to know about following…
NHL Notebook: Fraser Minten signs seven-year extension with Bruins
The National Hockey League has seen a massive salary increase this off-season. A big reason for that was thanks to the Philadelphia Flyers’ offer sheet of Leo Carlsson earlier this off-season. Since then, Macklin Celebrini and Zeev Buium have also signed high-AAV contracts. The latest beneficiary is Fraser Minten, who signed a seven-year deal worth…
20 Days, 20 Questions: What does Simon Nemec’s first season in Calgary look like?
When it comes to the Calgary Flames and their rebuild process, general manager Craig Conroy seems like he’s working from the net out. He was an assistant general manager when Dustin Wolf was drafted in 2019, but he was in the big chair and pulled the trigger on 2024 trade that sent Jacob Markstrom to…
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