6’4″ Defenseman Joni Jurmo has officially signed back home in Finland with Kiekko-Espoo in Liiga. The 2025-26 season will not be Jurmo’s first season playing in Liiga as he played with JYP in the 2020-21 season, Jukurit in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, Ilves and KooKoo in the 2023-24 season.
On Tuesday we saw two young players placed on waivers, and now both Calgary's Joni Jurmo and Toronto's Ty Voit have learned their NHL fates on Wednesday after both officially cleared through waivers, becoming free agents.
The Calgary Flames have reportedly placed defensive prospect Joni Jurmo on unconditional waivers to terminate his contract, according to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
A couple of players are on their way to becoming free agents. On Tuesday, the Toronto Maple Leafs placed forward Ty Voit on unconditional waivers for the purpose of contract termination.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
The Vancouver Canucks have made their fair share of bad trades in recent years, but here are some of the worst, according to Tyson Cole of Canucks Army.
The Calgary Wranglers have recalled defenceman Joni Jurmo from the ECHL’s Rapid City Rush, the club announced Thursday morning. Jurmo, 22, skated in nine games with the Rush to start the 2024-25 campaign after being assigned to the ECHL on Nov.
When FlamesNation head honcho Ryan Pike published the full list of 10 players who did not receive any top-20 votes for this year’s edition of our prospect rankings, those of you in the comments section expressed a fair amount of concern.
Friends, here at FlamesNation we pride ourselves on doing our homework and trying our best to provide smart, insightful commentary on the Calgary Flames and their many prospects.
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.
Last week, friends, we talked about signing szn when it came to prospects. And hey, the Calgary Flames signed Joni Jurmo shortly afterwards. That’s kind of fun.
The Calgary Flames have signed defense prospect Joni Jurmo to a two-year, entry-level contract, the club announced Sunday afternoon. Jurmo, 21, has one goal and five points in 46 games in the Finnish Liiga this season split between Ilves Tampere and KooKoo Kouvola.
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.
Folks, we’re obviously all a bit caught up in the 2024 trade deadline pandemonium. But once March 1 hit the calendar, another important period began: the opening of the window for teams to sign players to entry-level deals that begin next season.
One of the newest Calgary Flames has hit the century mark in points With a goal in the second period of Monday’s game, Andrei Kuzemenko now has 100 points in his National Hockey League career.
Back in May 2023, when Craig Conroy was named the Calgary Flames’ new general manager, he pledged to focus on asset management when it came to the club’s seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
With less than a month until the National Hockey League trade deadline, rumours are starting to pick up. As per usual, there are plenty of rumours surrounding the Calgary Flames.
The Calgary Flames made a trade this past week. Elias Lindholm is now a Vancouver Canuck. And the Flames have a couple new defencemen in their prospect pool.
Last Tuesday we put out our FlamesNation All-Star break fan survey. Today we are posting the results. Thank you to those who were able to fill out the Google Form.
Folks, in the game of hockey, in many positions, size matters. All things being equal, a bigger body is harder to knock off the puck, but often there’s a trade-off between size and other attributes.