2025 -2026 Season: All aboard the Wolf Train

[harmfuljays]

Rory Kerins is back up with the club. Dustin Wolf and the Flames get a shutout last night against the high octane sharks, outshooting them 36 to 16. Win #5....tied with the Preds and Sabres! Proof once again that if they work hard they can win some games.

[harmfuljays]

Good news Wolf seems to be better.......Coronato scored last night that's a positive as well.

I keep forgetting that Rory Kerrins is playing......that can't be good.

This team is about as entertaining as watching the UFC right now.

[Pokecheque]

Interesting, someone posted that the Flames are actually generating plenty of grade-A scoring chances, they just can't capitalize on any of them to save their lives.

[harmfuljays]

Ownership believes in the direction management is taking. Conroy and others get extended for 2 years.

Cooley seems to be playing better than Wolf right now.

Flames actually played fairly well in November. Rasmus Andersson has been doing his best to increase his paycheck.

Looks like I completely missed Rory Kerins ice time. Seems like a waste of time for him. Probably one of those guys who is never really going to get a fair shake at the NHL level wth Calgary.

But hey...no longer the worst in the West! Thanks Nashville!

[harmfuljays]

We are at Christmas and almost back to .500! Rasmus Andersson quietly carrying the team around lately........in a recent after hours interview he said it takes 2 to tango about staying in Calgary. Well wherever he ends up he's found the motivation to increase his payday.

Weegar is still a -19 but he also has company in Coronato.

Who would have thought Cooley would have better numbers than Wolf so far? Cooley needs more starts to really tell. A few games of whimsical D and his numbers will be like Wolfs.

Conor Zary really having a tough year so far.

The Vegas beatdown was fun to watch.

Flames wrap up pre Christmas with a surging McDavid in Edmonton tuesday night.

[harmfuljays]

I found this amusing John Beecher.....gets suspended one game for actually punching someone and not standing there saying why I aught too! Doesn't he know its all about looking tough?



What actually makes this even more amusing is the fight he picks with Hague later on......



Now that should be punishment enough....but add 1 game for insult to injury.

[harmfuljays]

Apparently Zayne Parekh is now a problem for the Flames?

https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/news ... ots-remark

He was clearly one of the best players out there for Canada during the WJC.

"I think it's more watching NHL guys be robots and not having any personality. I think you need some personality, and it's the best way to grow the game. I don't want to come in here and be a robot. When I'm in Calgary, I definitely have a lot of guys that are telling me to give really simple answers. But here I could kind of do what I want," he said.

So what that he made those comments? Forcing him to apologize is ridiculous.

Apparently these jokers broke off of 960 and made their own podcast



Thank goodness Rhett is not directly involved with the organization any longer!

While I don't disagree with the assessment of Parekh....I think everyone needs to calm down....he's 19.....since you aren't sending him back....play the shit out of him and let's see where the chips fall for the season. The Flames aren't a good team so no need to pretend.

[Chris18]

He's absolutely right. The NHL is full of robotic answers. Interviews are usually boring as hell. They might as well say "I'll give you quotes 2, 5 and 7 today. See you tomorrow."

[E.L.]

They’ll trade him to Carolina or Florida in a few years and he’ll thrive there. Can’t have an autonomous thinker playing hockey in Canada.

[harmfuljays]

All the BS about Boston comes to naught and good old Vegas somehow gets Rasmus Andersson.

Please someone tell me how a team is able to go almost 12 million over the cap? I'd love to know!

The return tells me everything I need to know about the Flames. Good to know management knows where they are at.

According to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, the Flames will receive defenceman Zach Whitecloud, Abram Wiebe, a 2027 first-round pick and a conditional 2027 second-round pick, which will become a first if Vegas wins the Stanley Cup this year.

The Flames will retain 50 per cent of Andersson's salary.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/fl ... n-knights/

So long!

[E.L.]

Solid haul for the Flames. Vegas wanted their man.

[Pokecheque]

I'm reading the Bruins offered up Mason Lohrei, a first rounder, and more, not sure what the "more" entailed but I think I'd rather have Whitecloud.

So...what happens on these boards in a trade between the Bruins and Flames? If it's lopsided one way or the other, does Harmy lord it over Harmy? Does one Harmy get pissed and report the other Harmy?

[harmfuljays]

Well....like in this case.....I'll go to the Bruins forum and talk about it from a Bruins fan's perspective. I felt that was way too much if the offer was indeed Poitras, Lohrei and the Leafs 1st rounder. And of course I would understand how the Bruins would insist on an extension pre-move with that package.

I also understand that if I was Andersson...I would be like yeah right...I am 29 and this is the last shot for the big haul. So totally get why he wasn't into the extension before testing FA.

As I said in the Nucks forum....its great to stockpile picks...but the Flames haven't had the best track record of cultivating homegrown talent.

I find the random scuttlebutt on Kadri interesting. He's is currently the Flames leading scorer and makes 7 Million until 29-30. What incentive do the Flames have to move him right now?? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me.