Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Calgary Flames game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! The Calgary Flames visited the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night to begin their 2025-26 regular season. And the first half of the game was not pretty…

The first Calgary Flames goal of the 2025-26 season belongs to Matvei Gridin. On top of the goal being the first Flames’ goal of the season, it was also Gridin’s first career goal. It wasn’t anything special, as Gridin received a pass from Nazem Kadri, drifted to the corner, spun around, and attempted to pass…

When the Calgary Flames hit the ice in Edmonton for their season-opener, they’ll see a familiar face on the other side. Andrew Mangiapane, a 2015 sixth-round pick and a 417-game member of the Flames, is now a member of the Edmonton Oilers. Mangiapane was traded to the Washington Capitals during the 2024 off-season and after…

Russian-born 2023 third round draft pick Aydar Suniev made his NHL debut with the Calgary Flames at the end of last season among the group of Zayne Parekh, Hunter Brzustewicz, and Sam Morton. Now, he’s set to make his debut in his first professional season with the Calgary Wranglers. He had his time to show…

After a pre-season that lasted longer than everyone really ever wanted, hockey fans are rewarded with a great as the 2025-26 NHL season gets going. On Wednesday evening, the Calgary Flames visit their most bitter rivals, the two-time Stanley Cup Finalists, the Edmonton Oilers. The Flames are hoping to prove that last season’s surprising resurgence…

Gang, this will be my 16th season cover the Calgary Flames. I’ve covered rebuilding teams. I’ve covered resurgent teams. I’ve covered Flames teams that have thumbed their nose at low external expectations. And I’ve covered Flames teams that have, frankly, wilted in the face of raised external expectations. And heading into the 2025-26 season, I’m…

The 2025-26 National Hockey League season is starting this week, and the season is kicking off with a Battle of Alberta between the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers. It’s just the eighth time in 45 seasons that these teams begin their seasons against each other. And the rarity of the match-up may be a blessing…

Gang, it’s really tough to make a National Hockey League roster at any age. It’s virtually unheard of for a teenager, given their lack of physical and mental maturity – relative to their older counterparts – and just how much NHL clubs tend to skew towards reliable veterans over uncertain kids. The Calgary Flames will…

Dryden Hunt has played a great in between role between the Calgary Wranglers and Calgary Flames the last couple of years. He served as alternate captain of the Wranglers last season and typically played on the top line with Rory Kerins and a mix of William Stromgren, Martin Frk or Sam Morton as the other…

Speculation surrounding the best player in the world will stop – for now. On Monday afternoon, numerous sources reported that Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers agreed to a two-year deal worth $12.5 million. McDavid is undoubtedly the best player in hockey, as he just registered his eighth triple-digit season in just 10 seasons. He…

The 2025-26 campaign for the Calgary Flames kicks off tomorrow night when they take on the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place! Now is the perfect time to get the FlamesNation team – Ryan Pike, Ryley Delaney, Adrian Kiss, Paige Siewert, Flash Stevens, and myself — together for a roundtable to give some predictions for the…

The National Hockey League season is just around the corner, but many Calgary Flames’ prospects’ seasons are in full swing. This is the Sept. 29- Oct. 6 edition of the Flames prospect round-up, where we look at how Flames prospects have done on a weekly basis. Specifically, we’ll look at players playing overseas, in junior…

The Calgary Flames announced their season-opening roster on Monday afternoon. The roster contains 23 active players – two goaltenders, eight defencemen and 13 forwards – plus two players on the injury reserve list. Despite having their highest-paid player on the IR to start the season, the Flames have oodles and oodles of salary cap space….

The Calgary Flames announced their season-opening roster on Monday afternoon. The Flames will begin 2025-26 with a mix of young and old players, an interesting juxtaposition between veteran players retained from Brad Treliving’s regime and a wave of younger players brought up from within the team’s drafting and development system. Here’s a rundown of all…

Friends, the Calgary Flames have locked in their opening roster for the 2025-26 National Hockey League season. The Flames began Monday with 24 active players and got down to the 23 player in-season maximum by placing forwards Jonathan Huberdeau and Martin Pospisil on the injury reserve list, retroactive to their respective injuries on Wednesday against…

Friends, the exhibition schedule is over and done with. Opening rosters will be revealed today by the 32 NHL clubs. Hockey games that count in the standings start on Tuesday. The Calgary Flames face the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night. Hockey is back. Let’s dive into the mailbag! what are your projected lines for the…

Friends, two things can be true at the same time. First and foremost: Mikael Backlund and Nazem Kadri are two of the most important players on the Calgary Flames roster. Secondly: Kadri turned 35 on Monday, while Backlund turned 36 on St. Patrick’s Day. We need to discuss both sides of this coin, as it’s…

Making predictions about the Calgary Flames is not an easy task. When you think they’re going to struggle, they succeed. When you think they’re going to succeed, they struggle. I don’t know what it is about this organization but they are difficult to get a read on. This season is no different. The range out…

Former Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving often quipped that the game of hockey should simply be called “goaltending” because of how crucial that position is to having success. After all: if you have goaltending, you have a lot. But if you don’t have goaltending, you don’t have much. In 2024-25, the Flames had goaltending…

Artem Grushnikov played his first full season with the Calgary Wranglers last year after coming to the team on a mid-season trade in the 2023-24 season. He enters the last year of his entry level contract this season and has some development to do to figure out where he fits. Meets expectations Grushnikov has positional…

The Calgary Flames are enjoying a rare stretch of consecutive days off the ice this weekend, a brief respite before a pretty hellacious regular season schedule that’s compressed due to the 2026 Winter Olympics in February. The last gate for the Flames to clear before opening night in Edmonton on Wednesday is filing their season-opening…

There are a lot of unanswered questions when it comes to the Calgary Flames heading into the 2025-26 season. Where are the goals going to come from? Who is the long term backup goalie behind Dustin Wolf? What is going to happen to Rasmus Andersson? There is a lot going on around this team. But…

Hunter Brzustewicz is an intriguing prospect who’s facing a fairly critical development year; in other words, this season will be more telling than any previous year about what he can actually project to be as an NHLer. Though he’s not ready for the NHL just yet, taking another step forward with the Calgary Wranglers in…

The Calgary Flames were not particularly good on Wednesday night when they faced the Vancouver Canucks. They allowed eight goals, scored just one (and that play was fairly off-side), never led, and generally seemed completely discombobulated. In short: they really didn’t look like the team that scraped and clawed their way to within a tiebreaker…

Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Calgary Flames game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! Well, that was much better than Wednesday. The Calgary Flames did not give up eight goals against the Winnipeg Jets on Friday night at the ‘Dome….