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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…
A Flame from the Past: Niklas Hagman
Do you remember Niklas Hagman? Every once in a while, we take a look at a player who once played for the Calgary Flames in a series called “A Flame From the Past.” This player has to have played a significant number of games for the Flames. I’ll put every Flames’ season into a Wheel…
Grading every trade Craig Conroy has made with the Flames: part 2
In part one of grading Craig Conroy trades we broke down his first three deals as GM of the Flames: Tyler Toffoli, Nikita Zadorov, and Elias Lindholm. Today, we will look at his next three trades. As always, I am going to hand out letter grades (A, B, C, or D) for each trade. For…
Flames announce four hockey operations staff additions ahead of 2026-27 season
The Labour Day weekend is behind us and the hockey world is starting to ramp up for training camps and the upcoming season. Ahead of prospects training camp kicking off later this week, the Calgary Flames announced four new hockey operations hires on Tuesday morning. The Flames have added the following individuals to new gigs:…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can the Flames figure out Morgan Frost?
At the end of January 2024, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy pulled the trigger on a trade. Headed to the Philadelphia Flyers were pending free agent Andrei Kuzmenko, bubble forward Jakob Pelletier, a second-round pick and a seventh-round pick. Headed back to the Flames were winger Joel Farabee and, perhaps the big target for…
Grading every trade Craig Conroy has made with the Flames: part 1
I hope Craig Conroy knew what he was getting himself into when he took on the job as General Manager of the Calgary Flames in May of 2023 because his predecessor, Brad Treliving, left behind an organization in a state of disarray. The team was reeling from losing Matthew Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau within a…
Could a shortened pre-season actually benefit the Flames rookies?
The 2026-27 NHL season is the first year of the new collective bargaining agreement, and the pre-season schedule has been cut down from the traditional six to eight games to only four, with veteran NHL players who have appeared in over 100 NHL games can only dress for two of these. The Calgary Flames are…
20 Days, 20 Questions: What can Matvei Gridin do over a full NHL season?
The Calgary Flames started the 2025-26 regular season with a pair of teenagers on their roster for the first time since 1997-98. One of them, top prospect Zayne Parekh, had accomplished basically everything he could as a junior player and was essentially forced to make the leap to the National Hockey League because there was…
20 Days, 20 Questions: What does Zayne Parekh’s sophomore season look like?
Man, Zayne Parekh had a really, really weird first professional season, didn’t he? The ninth overall selection by the Calgary Flames in the 2024 NHL Draft, Parekh joined the club in 2025-26 on the heels of one of the most impressive couple seasons an Ontario junior defenceman has ever had. He had back-to-back 30-goal campaigns,…
NHL Notebook: Canucks sign Zeev Buium to eight-year extension
With the regular season quickly approaching, teams across the National Hockey League have ramped up their transactions. One of the biggest news pieces these last few days belongs to the Calgary Flames’ Pacific Division rivals, the Vancouver Canucks. On Friday, they extended defenceman Zeev Buium to an eight-year deal worth $9.38 million annually. 8 MORE…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Yegor Sharangovich re-discover his offensive swagger?
The very first trade that Craig Conroy made as general manager of the Calgary Flames had extremely promising early returns. On June 27, 2023, the Flames sent forward Tyler Toffoli, one of seven roster players heading into their final year before potential unrestricted free agency, to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Yegor Sharangovich…
Meet the new EBUG, same as the old EBUG: Dusty Nickel to be named Flames full-time emergency backup
When the National Hockey League’s collective bargaining agreement was extended for four years in July 2025 – a year before its expiry – one of the interesting wrinkles was the introduction of full-time emergency backup goaltenders (or EBUG) for every team starting with the 2026-27 season. In the olden days, the home team was required…
‘It’s just a matter of when, not if’: Craig Conroy on Jonathan Huberdeau’s injury return timeline
Earlier this week, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy chatted with QR Calgary’s Jock Wilson, and part of their conversation might have caused some worries about the status of Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau’s return from hip surgery. Well, Sportsnet’s Eric Francis had a chance to get a few updates from Conroy in his latest column,…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Can Joel Farabee become the Flames’ new Blake Coleman?
After covering hockey for a few years, one of my conclusions about player performance is pretty simple. It’s easier to find consistency when your game has a clear identity. In a sense, that’s why Mikael Backlund made so much sense to be the captain of the Calgary Flames. For a hockey club going through a…
The Flames will play four times on Amazon Prime’s Wednesday Night Hockey in 2026-27
Pals, over the past couple of seasons, the folks at Amazon Prime sub-contracted Sportsnet’s Monday national window and ran Monday Night Hockey broadcasts in Canada on their stream service. The broadcasts were pretty good, and seemingly Sportsnet enjoyed the money they got from contracting out one of their nights. As the new 12-year national TV…
Flames prospect Bode Laylin commits to University of Minnesota for 2027-28 season
Calgary Flames defence prospect Bode Laylin announced Thursday that he has committed to attend the University of Minnesota starting in the 2027-28 season. Laylin, 18, collected 11 goals and 38 points in 55 games with the USHL’s Tri-City Storm during the 2025-26 season, adding a goal and an assist in two playoff contests. The Flames…
20 Days, 20 Questions: Who will be the Flames’ fourth line centre in 2026-27?
Friends, when the 2026-27 begins for the Calgary Flames, all indications are that their centres will include 37-year-old captain Mikael Backlund, pending unrestricted free agents Morgan Frost and Ryan Strome, and a to-be-determined fourth person. We’ll get to the free agency part of it all later on, but right now, let’s focus on their fourth…
What Ryan Pike read, watched and listened to in August 2026
Pals, if you’re anything like me, you consume a lot of hockey content. After covering the Calgary Flames and the National Hockey League for roughly 15 seasons, I still like reading, watching and listening to content about the sport – I didn’t play beyond the pee wee level, so I try to learn as much…
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