Calgary Flames Rumors & News

Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel "Panthers General Manager Dale Tallon continues to stockpile draft picks as he acquired another fourth-rounder from the Calagary Flames for prospect Corban Knight. In addition to having the overall second pick of the June 30th draft, the Panthers have the first pick in the second round, four..." June 18

Calgary Sun "The Calgary Flames confirmed Monday they are, indeed, looking to expand their hockey operations department, and Brendan Shanahan is one of the possible hires the club has talked to. However, team president and CEO Ken King insists any such move will be made entirely with an eye on bolstering..." June 18

SportingNews.com "While the NHL, NHL Players Association, International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation all say a deal to bring players to the 2013 Sochi Olympics will get done, there are still roadblocks, according to Sportsnet's John Shannon. Two of the big ones: the league's desire..." June 10

Calgary Herald "Unofficially, the post-Miikka Kiprusoff era has begun for the Calgary Flames. The Flames, according to reports, have come to terms with netminder Karri Ramo. The team — which cannot comment on the development until July 5, the start of the free-agency period — has high expectations for the..." June 06

NHL.com "All players entering the NHL beginning next season could be required to wear a visor. The NHL's Competition Committee met Tuesday here. Among its recommendations was a proposal that would make visors mandatory for all players entering the League, starting in 2013-14. Under the proposal,..." June 05

TSN.ca "The NHL's Competition Committee has recommended the mandatory wearing of visors be grandfathered in at its meeting in Toronto on Tuesday. The use of shallower nets to be used next season as well as a hybrid icing rule to be tested in preseason were among other recommended rule changes proposed..." June 04

Calgary Sun "“Call my mom,” Clint Malarchuk recalls telling his equipment manager as the final few minutes of his life appeared to be ticking away, “and tell her I love her.” Nearly a quarter-century after one of the most horrific injuries in sports history, the pain and fear of the moment is still..." May 30

NHL.com "The 2013 NHL Awards winners will be revealed in two live television specials during the Stanley Cup Final. At 7 p.m. on the day of Game 2 of the Final, the winners of the Hart, Calder, Norris and Vezina trophies, along with the Ted Lindsay Award, will be announced as part of an hour-long show..." May 24

TSN.ca "Hockey Canada is making changes to reclaim its spot atop the international game, as the national governing body has parted ways with head scout Kevin Prendergast and goaltending consultant Ron Tugnutt. "Those are not easy things to do, but we have to do it," Hockey Canada president Bob..." May 24

Calgary Sun "Danny Taylor is packing his goalie pads for an overseas excursion. After two appearances with the Calgary Flames this season, including his first big-league win, Taylor has agreed to a deal with Farjestad of the Swedish Elite League. Farjestad announced the signing on their website. The..." May 23

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