CALGARY, AB -- For the second straight day, Jiri Hudler fell to a Calgary Flames teammate. Sean Monahan assisted on Joel Ward’s first goal at 9:56 of the first period as Canada upended the Czech Republic 4-3 at the 2014 IIHF World Championship ......
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. On the one hand, you obviously cannot question the results. John Gibson, the 20-year-old goaltender for whom the term “stud prospect” seems to have been invented, was...
Rather than talking about P.K. Subban's double overtime Game 1 winner, or the electrifying hour and a half of playoff hockey that preceded it, the hockey world spent the bulk of the time before Game 2 talking about the racist comments it generated. Well, not so much the racism itself. Not even the victim of it. The primary concern here was the city of Boston, wherefrom this handful of despicable comments...
CALGARY, AB -- Jiri Hudler scored, but it was Mikael Backlund’s Sweden that got the better of the Czech Republic on Sunday at the 2014 IIHF World Championship. Backlund assisted on Oscar Moller’s first period goal to tie the game 1-1 while Hudl......
CALGARY, AB -- It wasn’t the international debut Sven Baertschi was hoping for. According to the IIHF website, Baertschi sustained a fractured rib in his first career Men’s World Championship game, effectively ending the tournament for the 21-y......
CALGARY, AB -- Mikael Backlund’s best season to date was extended with a trip to the 2014 IIHF World Championship. So too as his success, it seems. Backlund scored twice to lift Sweden to a 3-0 win over Denmark on Saturday. The 25-year-old, ......
CALGARY, AB -- If the Calgary Flames accomplished one feat this season, it was in creating a new identity. Gone from a year ago were the likes of Jarome Iginla, Miikka Kiprusoff and Jay Bouwmeester. In were the likes of Sean Monahan, Karri Ramo......
Defending champion Sweden made the first step in its title defense with a 3-0 victory over Denmark at the ice hockey world championship on Saturday. Calgary Flames forward Mikael Backlund scored twice in the opening period when the Swedes displayed fast, well organized play that was tough for Denmark to match. Another Scandinavian superpower, Finland, began its campaign with an upset 3-2 loss to Latvia...
CALGARY, AB -- Johnny Gaudreau wasted little time introducing himself to the World. In his first game at the 2014 IIHF World Championship, the 20-year-old reigning Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner recorded a goal and two assists in 17:28 of ic......
France stunned Canada in their first game of the ice hockey world championships Friday, winning 3-2 after a shootout. The other favorites avoided similar stumbles, as the United States and Russia both began their campaigns with big wins and the Czech Republic earned an overtime victory. In Group B, the Americans brushed aside host Belarus 6-1 and Russia showed off its attacking power in a 5-0 win over...
CALGARY, AB -- The youth of the Calgary Flames is ready to make a splash on the international stage. Nineteen-year-old Sean Monahan will join Sven Baertschi, 21, and Johnny Gaudreau, 20, as three of five Flames players that will participate in ......
CALGARY, AB -- When the Calgary Flames acquired Kris Russell from the St. Louis Blues on Jul. 5, 2013, it was a bit unclear as to what kind of role he would play for the club. During his junior career with the Medicine Hat Tigers, Russell put u......
68 - Kris Russell played 68 games in his first season with the Flames. The Flames acquired the defenceman from St. Louis on July 5, 2013. 7 - Russell potted seven goals in the 2013-14 season, tying a career-high he set in 2009-10 when he was wi......
ABBOTSFORD, BC -- Make no mistake about it, Eric Roy knows his path to the NHL will be a long one - if it weren't, it just wouldn't feel right. Growing up in Beauval, SK - a small community of just under 800 people - the local Charles Gauthier ......
66 - Eric Roy suited up for 66 regular season games with the Brandon Wheat Kings in 2013-14. This season marked Roy's fourth year with the Wheat Kings. 11 - Through 66 games, Roy potted 11 goals. His career-high in goals scored came in the 2012......
NHL.com's weekly Q&A feature called "Five Questions With …" runs every Tuesday. We talk to key figures in the game today and ask them questions to gain insight into their lives, careers and the latest news. The latest edition features Calgary ......
CALGARY, AB -- Johnny Gaudreau kicked off the 2014 IIHF World Championship pre-tournament with a bang, scoring the game-winner for the USA in a 3-1 victory over Germany on Tuesday. Gaudreau scored the Americans second goal just 14 seconds after......
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CALGARY, AB -- Brian Burke said he is willing to open his wallet up for the first person to provide him with a system that will help him trade and draft better. In the press conference to introduce newly minted general manager Brad Treliving la......
CALGARY, AB -- The Calgary Flames announced today that the American Hockey League’s Board of Governors has approved the relocation of the franchise owned by the Flames from Abbotsford, B.C., to Glens Falls, N.Y., beginning with the 2014-15 season......