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.
The 2026/27 regular season isn't one that comes with great expectations for the Calgary Flames, but if things are handled correctly both by the front office and the coaching staff, it could go a long way in building the future of the franchise.
There’s a funny thing about rebuilding an NHL team. Everybody understands the basic idea. Move out the veterans, collect draft picks, find some young players and accept that things are probably going to be a little ugly for a while.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
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.
There were many storylines around the Calgary Flames heading into the 2025/26 season, but the biggest of all was the arrival of 2024 No. 9 overall pick Zayne Parekh, with his incredible offensive upside giving Flames fans plenty of optimism for the future of the blue line.
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.
The 2026/27 NHL season is right around the corner, with the Calgary Flames home opener coming against the Seattle Kraken on October 1st, with four pre-season matchups taking place beginning on September 20th and ending on September 26th.
Friends, welcome back to Calgary Flames hockey. Well, prospects training camp, at least. The Flames have announced their roster and schedule for prospects camp.
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.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
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.
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.
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.
Simon Nemec rolled into Calgary a couple of weeks back, found a place with his fiancée, and got right down to business. That’s probably the smartest way to handle it.
Heading into the 2026/27 regular season, the expectations around the Calgary Flames are known around the league, with the team likely to be among the three worst squads in the National Hockey League given their lack of elite level talent.
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.
There’s a funny thing about rebuilding an NHL team. Everybody says they want to see progress, but then the season starts, and everybody starts counting wins.
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.
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
Calgary Flames forward Jonathan Huberdeau will miss the start of the 2026-27 season as he continues to recover from a hip resurfacing surgery performed in the Spring, general manager Craig Conroy told Pat Steinberg of Flames Now 770.
Perhaps no team across the entire NHL has been more active on the trade market in recent years than the Calgary Flames. While the 2026-27 season will likely be slower in that regard, the team still has some big pieces it could move before the 2027 trade deadline.
It feels like everybody has decided what Jonathan Huberdeau is at this point. He's the guy with the enormous contract. He's the former superstar who didn't live up to the deal.
The new NHL season is upon us, and the Calgary Flames feature at the bottom of a lot of pre-season predictions. After securing a lot of draft picks in recent years, the rebuild is well and truly underway.
Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has cleared the air about comments he made earlier in the week about the status of winger Jonathan Huberdeau’s recovery from hip resurfacing surgery.