We’re into the stretch drive of the junior hockey schedule, friends, and soon we’ll be into that part of the collegiate calendar, too. The World Juniors are done with and everyone’s starting to adjust their rosters for the stretch drive.
The Calgary Flames have made some roster moves on Tuesday afternoon to reduce their training camp roster. The club announced that they’ve assigned goaltender Waltteri Ignatjew and defencemen Yan Kuznetsov and Artem Grushnikov to the American Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers.
When the Calgary Flames were negotiating the deal that sent Chris Tanev to the Dallas Stars this past spring, they pushed hard to acquire defence prospect Artem Grushnikov as part of the trade.
Our pre-prospect rankings miniseries just keeps chugging along here at FlamesNation. After all, what better way is there to spend these rainy early August days than to read about some of the best-kept secrets in the Calgary Flames’ prospect pool?
As free agent frenzy approaches, more and more names that the Vancouver Canucks may have been interested in are coming off the board. Over the past 24 hours, Jake Guentzel signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning after they traded a third-round pick to acquire his exclusive negotiating rights.
The Calgary Flames organization went through a lot of changes during the 2023-24 season. Several pending unrestricted free agents were traded to new homes, while several youngsters were added to the organization via trade.
The Calgary Flames head into the 2024 NHL draft with nine picks total, eight of those being in the first four rounds of the draft. One option for Craig Conroy and his management team is to use some of those draft picks and current NHL players to help them get another pick or two in the top half of the first round.
The Calgary Flames will not be partaking in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs and tomorrow’s game versus the San Jose Sharks will be their last of the season.
Saturday night was the Calgary Flames’ final Hockey Night in Canada appearance of the 2023-24 season. To commemorate the season winding down, Scott Oake and Ryan Leslie had Craig Conroy as their guest on After Hours.
The Calgary Flames are all but out of the playoff race, sitting 16 points out of the final Wild Card spot with just 10 games remaining and a bunch of teams to jump.
It wasn’t long ago that the Calgary Flames had very few defensive prospects worth mentioning. Before selecting Étienne Morin and Axel Hurtig in the 2023 NHL Draft, the Flames had picked a total of six defenders in the previous five draft years.
The Calgary Flames have added a lot of new faces to their organization since the beginning of the 2023-24 season. Most recently, they added two American Hockey League level prospects via a pair of trades, as the club acquired Riley Damiani and Artem Grushnikov in a pair of trades with the Dallas Stars.
In the aftermath of the NHL’s annual trade deadline, sometimes the trades that weren’t consummated are as fascinating as the deals that did come to fruition.
Since he took the job last May, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has been grinding. He’s been working on resolving the situations of seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
The Calgary Flames made their third trade of the 2023-24 season last night, as they sent one of their most talked about pending UFAs, Chris Tanev, to the Dallas Stars.
Over the past few months, the online discourse surrounding the Dallas Stars and Calgary Flames has recently reached a new level. Dallas’ biggest area of need as a “buyer” this season is help on defence.