Joel Farabee scored a goal and added two assists as the Calgary Flames cruised past the visiting Detroit Red Wings 4-1 on Saturday, snapping Detroit's eight-game winning streak in the teams' series.
The Calgary Flames are building for the future, and while the team don't yet have elite level veterans on the squad, they've got several intriguing role players that will be trusted to help lead this team through the rebuild and out the other side around their young prospect pool.
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.
The 2026–27 NHL season is quickly approaching. Before it kicks off, let’s take advantage of the dog days of summer and start looking ahead at expectations for the Calgary Flames and their roster.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
Since becoming general manager of the Calgary Flames in the spring of 2023, Craig Conroy made it a priority to get younger and restock the prospect cupboards.
Friends, Blake Coleman is a really valuable member of the Calgary Flames. He plays hard. He scores timely goals. He kills penalties. He’s been on the power play from time to time.
The Calgary Flames were looking to get more out of Joel Farabee heading into the 2025-26 season. They acquired Farabee alongside his friend and Flyers teammate Morgan Frost last season with the short and long term in mind.
Joel Farabee and Victor Olofsson scored second-period goals and the host Calgary Flames rode the momentum to a 4-1 victory over the Florida Panthers on Friday.
The Calgary Flames held on for a 5-4 win over the Carolina Hurricanes Saturday night at Scotiabank Saddledome, ending a rough four-game slide. It was the kind of game that started with Carolina jumping out to an early lead, only for Calgary to rally back with some opportunistic scoring and a little grit down the stretch.
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.
The Calgary Flames didn’t do much before the 2024-25 trade deadline. In fact, they only made one in-season move compared to six in the 2023-24 season. That only move came on Jan.
The Philadelphia Flyers entered the season hoping to make up for their late-season collapse in 2023-24. Philadelphia had a playoff spot locked up for most of the season.
Just two games into the season, Philadelphia Flyers winger Joel Farabee was absent from practice due to what was ascribed to a “maintenance day”, per head coach John Tortorella.
After a dreadful, unproductive end to the 2023-24 season for Philadelphia Flyers forward Joel Farabee, it was generally considered a good thing that the 24-year-old would have the opportunity to play more hockey and back into a groove, featuring for Team USA at the Men’s IIHF World Championships in Czechia this month.
Flyers fans were delighted to learn earlier this week that Matvei Michkov could be joining the team next season. We weren’t expecting him so soon, after all… Because he’s under contract with SKA St.
In this edition of our 2023-24 Philadelphia Flyers player grading series, we take a look at 24-year-old winger Joel Farabee. The youngster is a veteran of 334 NHL games but had career-highs in goals, assists, and points.
Joel Farabee is one of many Philadelphia Flyers players who suffered through a very rough half of the 2023-24 season. Despite all of that, Farabee still enjoyed a career year overall for the Flyers, establishing personal bests in goals (22), assists (28), and points (50).
On Jan. 12, the Philadelphia Flyers capped off a two-goal comeback against the Minnesota Wild in overtime with a 4-3 win on the road. With Joel Farabee scoring the dagger, the Flyers moved to a 22-14-6 record on the season and got their second consecutive victory.