Calgary Flames Rumors & News

Calgary Sun "Roman Cervenka apparently won't be back for a second season with the Calgary Flames. In fact, he won't even be skating in the NHL next winter. According to reports from Russia, Cervenka has signed a three-year deal with SKA St. Petersburg of the KHL. Because he is under contract with the..." May 16

NHL.com "The National Hockey League moved closer to an agreement to send its players to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia during a meeting in Stockholm on Friday. The meeting included representatives from the NHL, National Hockey League Players' Association, International Olympic Committee,..." May 10

Calgary Herald "To see a 25-year-old sitting out April’s final four dates had been truly odd. Especially considering the netminding alternatives — a 33-year-old (who was sick) and a 36-year-old (who was emotionally checked out). The healthy youngster stood out as the common sense option. Yet Leland..." May 08

Calgary Sun "While the bulk of the NHL is kicking off the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Calgary Flames are officially working towards the 2013-14 campaign. An off-season of change is ahead for the club which missed the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season,but finally came to the realization it was..." May 01

Calgary Herald "Meetings are set. Pro scouts drop in this week. Amateur scouts in two weeks. Dates are set. Draft day is June 30. Development camp goes July 10-16. Rookie tourney is slated for Sept. 5-9, in Penticton, B.C. But, concerning the Calgary Flames, little else is set in stone. After a winter in..." May 01

NHL.com "By finishing with the fewest points in the regular season, the Florida Panthers had the best chance to land the No. 1 pick at the 2013 NHL Draft in June. But, on Monday, the Colorado Avalanche were the ones smiling. Colorado (16-25-7) was the winner of the 2013 Scotiabank NHL Draft Lottery..." April 29

NHL.com "The 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs will open Tuesday in Chicago with a matchup between the Presidents' Trophy-winning Chicago Blackhawks and the Minnesota Wild, who were the last team to clinch a playoff berth. The NHL released the playoff schedule Sunday night and it includes three Game 1s on..." April 29

Calgary Sun "The most disappointing Calgary Flames season in recent memory is finally over. In a best-of-times-worst-of-times way, the 2012-13 NHL campaign is exactly what this organization needed. Now that the season is done with Friday's 3-1 defeat at the hands of the Chicago Blackhawks, the Flames are..." April 27

Calgary Sun "Replacing Jay Bouwmeester isn’t on Mark Cundari’s agenda. The Calgary Flames blueliner doesn’t lack for confidence, but he knows better than to put that level of expectations on himself. “What’s he making, $6.5 million? He’s an elite defenceman, so to be the only defenceman coming the other..." April 25

Calgary Sun "It’s been all about the young guns down the stretch for the Calgary Flames. But where the Roman empire fit into the future plans is anybody’s guess. Roman Cervenka, the prized free-agent signing out of the KHL last summer, has seen his share of rough spots in his first NHL..." April 24

NHL.com "The team holding the top pick in the 2013 NHL Draft will need to consider one important question prior to stepping to the podium to announce its selection on June 30 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. What do we need right now? Is it a poised and polished minute-munching, two-way..." April 24

Tennessean "The song “Ho Hey” by the Lumineers blared from the speakers in the Predators locker room. Players cheered for forward Austin Watson, who had scored his first NHL goal. Defenseman Shea Weber smiled and joked with his teammates. It was a scene that hadn’t played out for the Predators in 21..." April 24

NHL.com "In celebration of Earth Day, NHL Green has teamed up with Sterling Planet, the United States' leading retail provider of environmental assets for corporate, utility and government clients, to attempt to mitigate the environmental impact of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs. For the second..." April 22

Pro Hockey Talk "Calgary Flames defenseman Anton Babchuk told Sports.ru’s Igor Eronko that he expects to play in the KHL during the 2013-14 season. The Flames (and NHL as a whole) probably won’t be bothered too much by this plan because the hard-shooting defenseman has only managed to play five games this..." April 22

Calgary Herald "Give the man this much: He sure knows how to make an exit. As endings go, maybe not quite up there with Bogart and Claude Rains strolling into the Casablanca fog at the “beginning of a beautiful friendship”as The End flashes up on the screen in unbeatable black-and-white, but for here, for..." April 21

NHL.com "The Calgary Flames have signed center Markus Granlund, their second-round pick in the 2011 NHL Draft, to an entry-level contract, the team announced Friday. The three-year deal has an average annual value of $925,000. The native of Oulu, Finland, the 45th player taken two years ago, has played..." April 20

Calgary Sun "He's a keeper. Plucked off the waiver wire in mid-February, goalie Joey MacDonald has signed on for another season with the Calgary Flames. The team announced Saturday morning that they've signed the 33-year-old netminder to a one-year, one-way deal worth US$925,000. If Miikka Kiprusoff,..." April 20

Detroit Free Press "The Red Wings find themselves digging out of a hole as they head into a Saturday showdown against the Canucks. In a game they should have won, given the Flames' rapid descent down the standings, the Wings lost, 3-2, Wednesday at Calgary. They took Thursday off because they don't play again..." April 19

Calgary Sun "The National Hockey League sounds great. However, Kenny Agostino isn't ready to leave the Ivy League quite yet. The 20-year-old forward has informed the Calgary Flames that he's returning to Yale to spend one more winter with the reigning NCAA champion Bulldogs and — just as important — to..." April 18

Calgary Herald "In this town, he is a familiar sight. The red jersey — with No. 34 on the back — and the pads are a dead giveaway. So it doesn’t take long. A couple of fans, spotting the celebrity, sidle over. “Can I take a picture?” says one. The other politely asks him to remove his headgear. Decent..." April 18

Calgary Herald "The glove shot up, in the blink of an eye, like Superman catching a silver bullet between his fingers or Brooks Robinson moving effortlessly to snare a liner down the third-base line. Just in the nick of time. Just like old times. “Yeah, it felt good,” admitted Miikka Kiprusoff...." April 18

Calgary Sun "Sven Baertschi has always had all the tools. As it turns out, the Calgary Flames rookie was just missing the hard-hat. Baertschi was devastated when he was sent to the AHL in early March. When he was recalled earlier this month, he said he arrived in Calgary determined to add a little..." April 17

Calgary Herald "The last send-off of an icon wasn’t what a city had envisioned, or the man merited. Ghostly reminders of past glories, irretrievable greatness, indelible moments, relegated to colour-splash pixels up on a JumboTron during a TV timeout. Jarome Iginla was actually, physically, in the air,..." April 17

Michigan Live "Joey MacDonald was shocked and disappointed when the Detroit Red Wings signed Jonas Gustavsson on July 1 to be their backup goaltender. MacDonald felt his strong play last season earned him the right to be Jimmy Howard's backup. The club was concerned about MacDonald's back issues, which idled..." April 17

ESPN.com "The NHL is in the final planning stages of its much-anticipated series of outdoor stadium games next season with six outdoor contests set to take place in football and baseball stadiums across North America, sources familiar with the plan confirmed to ESPN.com Tuesday. The series will start..." April 17

NHL.com "The National Hockey League Players' Association and the National Hockey League today announced a historic partnership with the You Can Play Project that formalizes and advances their long-standing commitment to make the NHL the most inclusive professional sports league in the world. "The NHL..." April 12

TSN.ca "The National Hockey League's meeting with officials from the International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation wrapped up in New York City Friday with more work needed to be done. "We had a good working session and were able to discuss all of the issues involved in the..." April 12

Calgary Sun "In the eyes of many fans, Jarome Iginla needed only a few weeks to morph from Jarome Who? -- that was a headline in the Calgary Sun two days after he was acquired in December 1995 -- to the future-of-the-Flames. A dozen points, an MVP award and a gold medal at the world junior tournament in..." April 11

Calgary Herald "Perspective. It’s helped keep Bob Hartley sane. “You know, hockey has given me everything,” the Calgary Flames’ boss is saying Wednesday, game-day morning of a Vancouver Canucks’ visit, one more playing-out-the-string day waiting to be stricken off the calendar. “I love the game. I OWE the..." April 11

Vancouver Province "Surprise back-up goaltender Dustin Butler got the customary solo laps, Roberto Luongo got the uncustomary start and Cory Schneider got his fill of the flu Wednesday. As if there wasn't enough drama surrounding the Vancouver Canucks to open a five-game road trip with a 4-1 victory over the..." April 11

Calgary Sun "Johnny Gaudreau is staying in school. One of a hat-trick of finalists for the 2013 Hobey Baker Award as the NCAA’s player of the year, the Calgary Flames prospect — nicknamed Johnny Hockey — has elected to return to the Boston College Eagles for at least one more season. “Excited for my..." April 10

Calgary Herald "At age 22, a large number of T.J. Brodie’s high school classmates are on the verge of graduating from university with a fancy piece of paper to show for four years of study. Understandably, the smooth-skating rearguard feels like he is attending an institution for higher learning — albeit of a..." April 10

Denver Post "Jean-Sebastien Giguere is a proud player, the longest-serving member of the Avalanche. His time in the NHL dates to the late, great days of the Hartford Whalers. For Giguere to openly criticize his teammates is a big deal, something that shouldn't be dismissed lightly. After the Avalanche's 3-1..." April 09

Ottawa Sun "The NHL trade deadline may have been the final act for some general managers. With only three weeks left in the season, all 30 teams tried to tweak at Wednesday's cutoff to make trades, but a chosen few were more desperate than others because their jobs are on the line if they don't make a..." April 08

Calgary Sun "You know that guy who wins the lottery and tells the newspaper he plans to keep his job? He might, but you can bet he won't play by the rules the rest of the office staff does"¦ because he can. He can walk away at any time -- the kind of freedom everyone dreams of. Miikka Kiprusoff..." April 04

Edmonton Sun "It was men against boys. Or, rather, boys against Flames. Same thing. Just hours after GM Steve Tambellini stood pat on trade deadline day, giving his young team a chance to finish what it started, the Oilers responded with a show of force that shook the Calgary Saddledome and everybody in..." April 04

Calgary Sun "Three first-round draft choices for the Calgary Flames. That’s the possibility for the 2013 affair in New Jersey for the stripping-down team, which has its own pick, the Pittsburgh Penguins’ and the St. Louis Blues’, provided the Blues make the playoffs. (If the Blues miss the second season,..." April 03

Calgary Sun "A Calgary Flames-logo bearing baseball cap and fresh towel awaited Miikka Kiprusoff when he left the ice following Tuesday’s Calgary Flames practice. Kiprusoff, the embattled Flames netminder who’s been the backbone of the franchise for nearly a decade, put the towel around his neck and donned..." April 03

Calgary Sun "According to multiple reports, Miikka Kiprusoff isn't going anywhere before Wednesday's 1 p.m. trade deadline. The Calgary Flames goaltender arrived at work Wednesday morning and — barring a surprise — is expected to be on the ice for the morning skate at the Saddledome. The Flames host the..." April 03

Calgary Herald "Jay Feaster realizes Calgary Flames fans want someone, anyone, to accept blame for the demise of their beloved hockey club. In the wake of pedalling Jay Bouwmeester to the St. Louis Blues – five days after dealing captain Jarome Iginla to the Pittsburgh Penguins – the general manager stepped up..." April 02

NHL.com "The Calgary Flames announced Monday night that they have dealt veteran defenseman Jay Bouwmeester to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for St. Louis' 2013 first-round pick, defenseman Mark Cundari and goaltender Reto Berra. In the event St. Louis does not qualify for the 2013 Stanley Cup..." April 01

TSN.ca "The Calgary Flames have granted the Toronto Maple Leafs permission to talk to goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff's representatives. Maple Leafs general manager Dave Nonis has been vocal about his interest in adding a veteran goaltender to play alongside James Reimer and Kiprusoff's name has been front..." April 01

Ottawa Sun "The Senators have an eye toward Cowtown in search for help up front before the deadline. League sources told the Sun the Senators have shown interest in Calgary Flames left winger Curtis Glencross because GM Bryan Murray would like to get more than a rental player if he does make a move at the..." April 01

Calgary Sun "One big piece of the Calgary Flames puzzle was removed. It’s hard to imagine Jarome Iginla will be the only player dealt away before the April 3 NHL trade deadline. Between now and Wednesday’s 1 p.m. deadline, expect to hear all kinds of rumours surrounding the Flames. (Take almost all of..." April 01

Calgary Sun "The Iginla Era is over. The home winning streak is now history, too. Heading into Friday's 6-4 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Calgary Flames had won eight consecutive contests on Saddledome ice. Then again, they just traded their face-of-the-franchise and all-time scoring leader..." March 30