The second round of the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs concluded on Monday evening, and with the completion of that round, the Calgary Flames’ picture for the 2024 NHL Draft is becoming clearer.
If you’ve gone to a Calgary Flames home game since the Olympic Saddledome (as it was called then) opened in October 1983, you’ve probably had the same experience in the area that many have.
It’s difficult to assign a grade to the rookie season that Ryan Huska recently concluded as head coach of the Calgary Flames. You have a coach tasked with deprogramming the Darryl Sutter five-man neutral zone approach out of the majority of a recently aggravated roster that essentially forced the future Hall of Fame coach out of his seat.
You could make a case that General Manager Craig Conroy has handed in his homework early. The Calgary Flames are roughly five months away from commencing the 2024-2025 regular season, and the rookie Calgary exec has most of his work done.
The National Hockey League’s entry draft is a big event on the league’s calendar. Every year, typically at the end of June, teams gather to select from a brand-new crop of fresh-faced prospective NHLers.
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The seventh round of the NHL Draft can be a weird time. It’s the final round of the draft. A lot of the teams are starting to pack up their tables. Heck, a lot of teams are trying to figure out whether to get dinner before heading to the airport for their flights home.
This article is brought to you by bet365. In anticipation of an exciting 2024 NHL Draft, we can look at past draft selections under a common management group to give us a sense of Calgary’s drafting vision and potential 2024 direction.
Life is full of twists and turns, and often a young hockey player’s draft year can be full of ups and downs. When the 2023-24 season began, Finnish blueliner Aron Kiviharju was touted as one of the top players in his draft class.
It’s been said often that every prospect’s journey is different. Some players figure things out early and as soon as a year after their draft, they can look like slam-dunk picks.
Ok. You read the title. Put your pitchforks and torches down for just a minute. Let’s catch up. Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman made waves throughout the hockey community on Friday when he weighed in on what he believes to be the next course of action for the recently eliminated Carolina Hurricanes.
Every off-season, even if a season goes incredibly well, there’s roster turnover within the Calgary Flames organization. On Friday, the first organizational departure was confirmed, as Calgary Wranglers blueliner Brady Lyle signed with the Kontinental Hockey League’s Dynamo Minsk.
In February of 2023, Walker Duehr jumped into the lineup and gave the stumbling Calgary Flames a much-needed jolt of youth and speed. He impressed in the back half of a frustrating season and emerged as a fan favourite with his blend of size, skill, and hard-nosed style.
On Monday, the Calgary Flames announced that John Bean will be stepping down as president and CEO of the organization – the Flames and the parent Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation, which includes the Wranglers, Hitmen, Roughnecks, Stampeders, and operation of the Saddledome.
Every season, it’s interesting to see which Calgary Flames prospect stays active in the post-season for the longest. Sometimes it’s their American Hockey League farm team.
As the year went on and the Calgary Flames traded away some of their unrestricted free agents a lot more responsibility was placed on some veteran defencemen.
The Calgary Flames head into the 2024 NHL draft with nine picks total, eight of those being in the first four rounds of the draft. One option for Craig Conroy and his management team is to use some of those draft picks and current NHL players to help them get another pick or two in the top half of the first round.
The Calgary Flames played their final game of the 2023-24 season back on Apr. 18. Since then, everyone’s attention has drifted to the ongoing Stanley Cup playoffs and the Flames’ preparations for the many, many draft selections they have available in the 2024 NHL Draft at the end of June.
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A look at the pressing offseason questions for the Calgary Flames.
Longtime Calgary Flames CEO and President John Bean has stepped down from his role, announced on Monday afternoon. Bean has been with the Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation (CSEC) for the last 14 and a half years where he became CEO and president in 2020, officially replacing Ken King before his death.
The NHL Playoffs are into Round 2 and are providing hockey fans with a plethora of dramatic moments to be etched into the history of the game forever. What is much less exciting is being a fan of a team on the outside looking in, sitting idly by until the fall comes.
According to an internal memo he sent announcing his decision obtained by The Athletic, he informed CSEC ownership of his intentions to step down last year.
Now that the first 16 picks of the 2024 NHL Draft have been finalized following Tuesday night’s draft lottery, let’s take a look at some of the top prospects in this year’s class. Here’s five players to know not named Macklin Celebrini, the presumed 2024 No. 1 pick.
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