It would be an understatement to say that the 2023-24 Calgary Flames were a mixed bag of results. The standings were not good (unless you were rooting for the highest place the team could find in the draft lottery), but plenty of individual performances were encouraging for fans, teammates, coaches, and management.
The Calgary Flames begin every season with a pretty simple goal: to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you want your team to be able to do anything impressive, making it into the post-season tournament is a requirement.
The Scotiabank Saddledome was the site for exit interviews for the Calgary Flames on Friday morning. The Flames players met with coaches and management to discuss the season, briefly chatted with the local media, and then headed off to their off-seasons.
The Calgary Flames fell 4-1 in the penultimate game of the 2023-24 season to the Vancouver Canucks, but even though the score might seem a bit lopsided with the Flames not scoring a goal until the third period from Brayden Pachal (his second of the season) head coach Ryan Huska was a fan of the team’s effort and output.
The Calgary Flames got into a high scoring shot-for-shot battle with the Arizona Coyotes and were able to scrape up enough offence to find the win. The goals weren’t all conventional – this certainly wasn’t a goaltending battle by any means – but the Flames really jumped on the upper side of the shooting percentage.
The Calgary Flames got a shorthanded goal early and never looked back as they rolled over the Anaheim Ducks in a 6-3 win. The Flames handily controlled the pace of play for all three periods, only having about 10 minutes at the start of the third where they were collapsing a bit defensively.
The Calgary Flames didn’t have a great first period on Tuesday against the San Jose Sharks. But man, if you toss out the first 10 minutes or so, they were really good against a Sharks team that entered the game with the 32nd-best record out of the NHL’s 32 teams.
On Thursday night, for the first time in his National Hockey League career, Connor Zary was a spectator when the Flames played the Winnipeg Jets. On Saturday night, also for the first time in his NHL career, Zary was a centre when the Flames played the Edmonton Oilers.
There are a lot of things to like about the way Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil plays hockey. He’s big, and he uses his size well. He moves really well, too, and his combination of size, speed and deceptive skill have made him really useful for the Flames – and earned him a two-year contract extension.
The Calgary Flames needed a win against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday evening to stay mathematically alive in the playoff race. The Jets needed a win over the Flames to punch their ticket to the post-season.
Martin Pospisil seems to keep getting himself in trouble. The Calgary Flames center was ejected from Thursday night’s game against the Winnipeg Jets after elbowing defenseman Josh Morrissey in the head.
A game the Calgary Flames certainly deserved a better fate for ended up as a loss Thursday evening against the St. Louis Blues. Calgary had the tying goal before the empty netter to make it 4-4 due to a miss called high stick as well as getting another one called back for being just offside.
The Calgary Flames headed into St. Louis on Thursday evening to conclude their brief two-game road trip, hoping to end their four game skid when they faced the Blues.
On Tuesday night, the Flames gave up the lead quickly and never saw the scoreboard go back in their favour. Despite winning the shots battle 39-24 and out-shooting the Blackhawks 34-12 in the final 40 minutes, the Flames fell 3-1 to the doldrum-dwelling Chicago Blackhawks, not really challenging the Chicago netminder Petr Mrazek to make big saves.
I’m glad the Calgary Flames got some of their nice moments out of the way early because the majority of the night was the Colorado Avalanche treating the Flames like a punching bag.
After a tough three game road trip, the Calgary Flames returned home on Tuesday to host the Colorado Avalanche. Facing their fourth strong opponent in a six day span, and missing three key cogs, the Flames were, quite simply, out-matched against a superior opponent with Stanley Cup aspirations.
The Calgary Flames were hoping to shake off a bad outing in Florida when they headed to Raleigh to visit the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday afternoon. It didn’t turn out that way, as the Flames were pretty thoroughly out-played for the first 25-30 minutes and couldn’t put together a comeback in a 7-2 loss to Carolina.
The Calgary Flames began their stretch drive on Saturday afternoon when they visited the powerhouse Florida Panthers. The Flames were far from their best, unfortunately, with a tendency for ill-timed turnovers at key moments in this game that led to goals against.
Since he took the job last May, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has been grinding. He’s been working on resolving the situations of seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil received a three-game suspension following his hit on Vince Dunn during Monday’s game. The hit happened relatively late in the contest after Jared McCann scored a short-handed goal.
He boarded Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn in the third period of Monday’s game.
The Calgary Flames retained a promising rookie Wednesday evening by inking forward Martin Pospisil to a 2-year, $2 million extension.
Calgary drafted him in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL Draft. He’s already played more NHL games than all but two players taken that round, behind Philipp Kurashev and Paul Cotter.
With Martin Pospisil’s injury, the Flames were expected to bring someone up to take his place before Saturday's game against Edmonton.
The Calgary Flames got some good news regarding center Martin Pospisil, as he’s expected to only miss a couple weeks with his upper-body injury. Pospisil
The Calgary Flames have announced that center Martin Pospisil will not return to Thursday’s game against the Toronto Maple Leafs due to an upper-body injury.
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