In Craig Conroy's first year as the Calgary Flames General Manager, he used the No. 16 overall pick on Samuel Honzek, a big forward that lacked high-end skill and elite physical traits, or at least that's what analysts around the league would have had people believe at the time.
Professional sports can be a tough business, folks. Spots in the big leagues are so competitive that grabbing and keeping a spot is almost as much about luck as it is about talent.
Craig Conroy has certainly received his fair share of plaudits for the work he’s done to restock the Calgary Flames’ cupboards over the past three years.
Welcome to The Win Column 2026 Calgary Flames Prospects Rankings. Ranked 9th on our list is the 16th overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft: Samuel Honzek.
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.
Stars center Sam Steel has returned home early from their road trip due to an undisclosed injury sustained on Thursday, relays team reporter Mike Heika
The Calgary Flames confirmed Friday that rookie forward Samuel Honzek had surgery to repair an upper-body injury, with a projected recovery of up to six months.
Samuel Honzek's season is likely finished after the Calgary Flames announced Friday that the rookie forward would miss up to six months to recover from upper-body surgery.
Calgary Flames rookie forward Sam Honzek underwent surgery on Thursday to address an upper-body injury and will miss up to six months while recovering, according to multiple reports.
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.
In the past few years, the Calgary Flames have built a prospect pool that has come to be well respected around the league. Headlined by the obvious in Zayne Parekh and the recently drafted Cole Reschny.
Welcome back to The Win Column Calgary Flames Prospect Rankings. We begin with an honourable mention: Samuel Honzek, who was drafted by the Flames 16th overall two seasons ago.
In this edition of Calgary Flames Prospect’s Quick Hits, I’ll report the progress of three key Calgary prospects and share how they’re developing. These are Samuel Honzek, Matvei Gridin, and Zayne Parekh.
After narrowly missing the playoffs in the 2022-23 season, the Calgary Flames were awarded the 16th overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft. With that selection, they drafted 6-foot-4 Slovakian forward Samuel Honzek.
Forward Samuel Honzek’s return to the NHL will be shortlived despite playing in the Calgary Flames’ loss to the Utah Hockey Club last night. The organization announced Honzek has been reassigned to their AHL affiliate, the Calgary Wranglers, while forward Matthew Coronato has been recalled in his stead.
The Calgary Flames are a pretty banged up group at the moment. They were already without Yegor Sharangovich and Kevin Rooney, and announced this morning that 19-year-old left winger Samuel Honzek is week-to-week with an upper-body injury.
The Calgary Flames announced their 2024-25 season-opening roster on Monday, and there’s a teenager on it. Forward Samuel Honzek, the club’s 2023 first-round pick and a teenager until Nov.
As the NHL preseason ends, the Calgary Flames have good news and bad to start the season. The team had standout performances from unlikely heroes, but they also lost a key forward who is out week-to-week with an injury.