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Leafs Meet Flames Tomorrow, Both In A Playoff Battle

from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star, Despite the injuries, the Flames knocked off high-flying Vancouver in a shootout on Saturday night and have lost only two of their last 10. The Leafs turned Mats Sundin Appreciation Night into an unholy disaster against Montreal, and just 10 days after seeming to make an emphatic statement by hammering the Senators in Ottawa, they are now again...
Via Kukla's Korner  |  6 hours ago
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Flames C Backlund injures arm in fight

Calgary Flames center Mikael Backlund was injured in Saturday’s 3-2 shootout win over the Vancouver Canucks.Backlund injured his left arm in a fight with Vancouver’s Andrew Alberts, after Alberts had bulldozed Flames winger Blake Comeau. Backlund left the ice with his arm dangling with what the team is calling it an “upper-body injury.”Backlund has four goals and seven assists...
Via Pro Sports Daily  |  1 day ago
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Flying V’s Hat Trick: Flames Catch Canucks in Shootout Win

Stinkin Flames… The Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames battled in a classic Northwest Division matchup featuring two fights and extra time as the Flames beat the Canucks 3-2 in the shootout. Mason Raymond and Alex Edler were stopped in the skills competition and Jarome Iginla had his revenge on Roberto Luongo to seal it in the third round, keeping the Canucks from collecting...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat  |  1 day ago
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Iginla’s shootout goal lead Flames past the Canucks

The Calgary Flames defeated the Vancouver Canucks in a shootout 3-2 on Saturday. Mike Cammalleri and Roman Horak scored for the Flames while Cody Hodgson and David Booth scored for the Canucks. Olli Jokinen scored the 1st shootout goal for the Flames. Alex Burrows scored a shootout goal to keep the Canucks alive. Jarome Iginla would then score the next shootout goal. Mason Raymond...
Via Rant Sports  |  1 day ago
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Flames 3, Canucks 2, SO

Jarome Iginla scored the shootout winner and the Calgary Flames earned an important two points with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night. The shootout was tied through two rounds, with Olli Jokinen scoring for Calgary and Alex Burrows replying for Vancouver, which set the stage for Iginla - the Flames' captain and all-time leading scorer. Iginla put the Flames...
Via AP on Fox  |  2 days ago
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Flames lose C Jones to broken ankle

Calgary Flames center Blair Jones is expected to be sidelined six weeks due to a broken ankle. Jones was injured in Thursday's game against Phoenix when he was hit in the ankle by a shot. The 25-year-old Jones has one goal and two assists in 13 games for the Flames after notching two goals and two assists for Tampa Bay this season.
Via Pro Sports Daily  |  2 days ago
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Jokinen's hat trick lifts Flames to win

Miikka Kiprusoff can thank fellow Finn Olli Jokinen for helping him earn his 300th career NHL win. Jokinen capitalized on a turnover by Colin White to break a third-period tie with his third goal of the game, and the Calgary Flames beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 Wednesday night. Jokinen also assisted on Jarome Iginla's second-period goal to help Kiprusoff reach the milestone...
Via AP on Fox  |  5 days ago
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Luca Sbisa hit on Tim Jackman

Check out this hit by Ducks defenseman Luca Sbisa on Calgary Flames forward Tim Jackman. While Sbisa does hit Jackman in the head, I definitely think the hit in question looks accidental and not malicious. For the hit in question, Sbisa was given a five-minute major and a game misconduct for headbutting Jackman. After the hit, Jackman left the game and didn't return. I don...
Via Goon's World  |  6 days ago
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Does trading Jarome Iginla make sense?

It seems like we go through this every year, doesn't it? The NHL trade deadline approaches and right on cue Jarome Iginla's name starts surfacing in various rumor hubs around the Internet. Will this be the year Iginla and the Flames finally part ways?  It seems like the NHL trade deadline has borrowed a strategy used by a soap opera, constantly recycling storylines...
Via Puck Drunk Love  |  6 days ago
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Big Mac breaks Olli Jokinen's goalless streak

When Calgary Flames center Olli Jokinen had gone 15 games without a goal, he knew he had to change up something. So the former Phoenix Coyote recollected on some advice that was passed on to him by the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. He went out for a Big Mac meal. "In Phoenix, I think I went 10, 11 games without a goal and he pulled me into a meeting and said ‘Hey, you take...
Via It's Always Sunny in Detroit  |  6 days ago
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Flickering Flames Need Fresh Fuel

What happens when a once-mighty team fails to consistently develop good young players?That franchise ends up spending lots of money on middling veterans while hanging around the periphery of the Stanley Cup playoff race year after year.Such is the fate of the Calgary Flames.They are on the outside of the Western Conference race looking in, despite catching fire of late.Should this...
Via The Hockey Guy  |  6 days ago
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Flames C Jokinen snaps slump .. by eating hamburger

Olli Jokinen snapped his 15-game goalless streak by having a hamburger. Yes, you read that right. The Calgary Flames center remembered some sage words from the legendary Wayne Gretzky when the Finn was last mired in a pronounced slump during the 2008-09 campaign. "In Phoenix, I think I went 10, 11 games without a goal and he pulled me into a meeting and said ‘Hey, you take...
Via Pro Sports Daily  |  7 days ago
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AHL Battle of Alberta Comes the Calgary This Thursday

The AHL Western Conference leading Oklahoma City Barons are coming back to Calgary to play the AHL battle of Alberta because the Abbotsford Heat, the AHL farm team of the Calgary Flames will play a home game in the Saddledome this Thursday night. While once again both corresponding NHL teams are on the outside looking in for the NHL playoff race, their AHL teams currently playoff...
Via Kukla's Korner  |  8 days ago
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NHL: Calgary Flames at the All Star Break: Will the Jekyll and Hyde Year Continue?

The Calgary Flames have reached the All Star weekend in pretty much the same place they were in last season; second last in their division and tied for 10th in the Western Conference. They have showed flashed of brilliance during the year and flashes of incompetence. But will this roller coaster ride continue the rest of the way or can the Flames actually put together a run to...
Via Sports-at-Work  |  15 days ago
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Brendan Morrison is the true winner in Chicago Blackhawks, Calgary Flames deal

When the Chicago Blackhawks announced the acquisition of Brendan Morrision from the Calgary Flames last night, they ultimately beefed up their depth down the middle for the better. Morrison, a veteran, who has never hoisted the Stanley Cup, will get his chance this year. Signing several one-year contracts at a time, Morrision, even more so than the Blackhawks, have the most to gain...
Via centericechat.com  |  16 days ago
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