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Member, @ThePHWA . Website editor/reporter/occasional co-host, @FlamesNation . Author. CBA/cap/draft/arena nerd. Bad puns, sweet dekes, and spreadsheets.
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As of today, the Seattle Kraken can start signing players and making trades. They are a real NHL team.
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Essentially
#Flames
GM Brad Treliving turned one remaining possible year of Matthew Tkachuk into nine years of Huberdeau, nine years of Weegar, six controllable years of Schwindt, and the cap space to sign Nadem Kadri in free agency.
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The NHL is playing before zero fans and is literally three days ahead of their pre-ordained schedule for the playoffs. They can definitely afford to take a night off to put attention on the Jacob Blake shooting.
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Our man (Twitterless) Rick Ball doesn't have a playoff assignment for the second round, but let's all express our appreciation for what a superb job he does on
#Flames
broadcasts. An absolute pro and, as
@ryanlesliemedia
revealed, one heck of a musical performer, too.
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For those of you keeping track... All-time playoff wins at Rogers Place:
-Calgary Flames, 5
-Edmonton Oilers, 5
2020 is weird.
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I wonder when Brad Treliving plans to have dinner with MacKenzie Weegar...
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Reminder: due to the structure of the trade, the Oilers actually paid Milan Lucic to steal that puck from Mike Smith.
#Flames
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Johnny Gaudreau has 11 more even strength points than Connor McDavid in 193 fewer ES minutes played.
#Flames
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Craig Conroy has turned pending UFAs Toffoli, Zadorov & Lindholm into Kuzmenko, Sharangovich, Brzustewicz, Jurmo, Aydar Suniev, 2024 1st, 2024 4th, 2024 5th & 2026 3rd
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Saddledome public address announcer Beasley has just now finally finished announcing the goals from Wednesday night's Flames/Oilers game.
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No hockey game has been ever calmed down by Mike Smith coming into it.
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Try to be the Chris Snow of your little corner of the world. And hug your people. Your time with them won't last forever.
We'll miss you, Chris.
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#Flames
F Milan Lucic quips to TNT post-game panel: “Nice to be on TNT for once. Thanks for fitting us in.”
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All due respect to the organization, but has any team done so little with so many amazing pieces as the Edmonton Oilers?
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Darryl Sutter won the NHL coach of the year award.
#Flames
AHL coach Mitch Love won the AHL coach of the year award.
Neat.
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FYI:
#Flames
D Juuso Valimaki won't be credited with a pro season in 2019-20 (he played zero games) and as a result he will be exempt from the 2021 Seattle expansion draft.
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#Flames
alternate captain Matthew Tkachuk closes out his availability by wishing Postmedia's Kristen Anderson best of luck in her new gig.
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The Edmonton Oil Kings have selected Joe Iginla at 12th overall in the WHL Bantam Draft.
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Sean Monahan is a heck of a hockey player. Has absolutely physically paid the price for all the goals he's scored, and now he won't be a part of one of the most anticipated playoff runs in decades. The guy has the worst friggin' luck.
#Flames
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Using
@CapFriendly
's super-simplified tax calculator (and assuming *all salary* for simplicity):
-Gaudreau take-home in CGY (8x$10.5m) = $43.7m
-Gaudreau take-home in CBJ (7x$.9.75m) = $36.4m
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I'll say this: Darryl Sutter is pretty clear about why he's leaving his farm to return to the NHL. He wants to win a Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames.
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Wranglers opener attendance via AHL site: 5,663.
Stockton averaged 1,713 last season. So this would be more than that.
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Elias Lindholm with Carolina: 188 points (in 374 games)
Elias Lindholm with Calgary: 188 points (in 215 games).
#Flames
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According to Tyler Toffoli, either Mikael Backlund or Elias Lindholm was the first
#Flames
player to text him to welcome him to the team. (They both texted at about the same time.)
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Johnny Gaudreau returns to Calgary on January 23 as a member of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Yes, just as we all predicted.
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Suggesting nothing here, but Tyler Toffoli is a right shot forward, $4.25m cap hit. Played with Monahan in junior, played briefly with Tanev & Markstrom in VAN, won a Cup under Sutter in LA. Ticks a lot of boxes for
#Flames
' needs.
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Andrew Mangiapane, a pending RFA with arbitration rights, is gonna get paaaaaaaid.
#Flames
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So... I wrote a book! My first book, On The Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Calgary Flames at the NHL Draft, is now available for pre-order and it's in stores March 19.
Indigo:
Barnes & Noble:
Amazon:
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Mangiapane: "We look great I think!"
Apparently this was Kadri's idea.
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Craig Conroy has turned 5 pending UFAs into 4 players under contract, 3 prospects, 7 guaranteed draft picks and 1 pick that could happen under certain conditions.
5 expiring assets turned into 14 or 15.
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The
#Flames
are the first team this season to earn standings points against all 31 of the NHL's other teams.
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I love Hockey Twitter usually, but adore them this weekend as a few are trying to link Matthew Tkachuk to the Kennedy assassination, which took place 34 years before he was born.
#Flames
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Brad Treliving: "If you're having trouble sleeping tonight, just read through the list of conditions..."
#Flames
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#Flames
F Matthew Tkachuk noted that he's been helping Mikael Backlund out with NHLPA duties for the last couple years. With Backlund in Sweden, Tkachuk took the lead for his club on Return to Play and CBA discussions. That speaks to how highly he's viewed by his teammates.
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Huberdeau's $84 million extension would run from 2023-24 through 2030-31, and it's the richest deal in
#Flames
franchise history - nearly $40 million more than Sean Monahan's current deal.
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Weirdness:
#Flames
goal featured Tkachuk's 60th point, Lindholm's 70th point and Gaudreau's 80th point.
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The NHL has announced that
#Flames
AGM
@ChrisSnowCGY
(and his family) will be among those presenting as part of the NHL Awards broadcast this coming Tuesday.
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I have watched Johnny Gaudreau's entire pro career. Literally every single game.
This is the best Johnny Gaudreau I have ever seen.
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Johnny Gaudreau leads the NHL with 76 even strength points. He has eight more even strength points than Auston Matthews and has played 42 fewer even strength minutes than Matthews.
#Flames
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The
#Flames
defensive pairing of Noah Hanifin & Chris Tanev have played 70 5v5 minutes together over five games and have yet to have a goal against.
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If Milan Lucic gets suspended for his punch earlier this season, does Zack Kassian get anything for his altercation for Matthew Tkachuk?
#Flames
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The Edmonton Oilers now mathematically cannot catch the Calgary Flames in the standings.
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Your reminder that the
#Flames
acquired the 2016 pick used to draft Dillon Dube by cashing out on Kris Russell at the trade deadline.
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Because of 10 COVID postponements, the
#Flames
had to play 40 games over the final 80 days of the regular season. (They went 27-8-5.)
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"It meant a lot" - Jonathan Huberdeau on Brad Treliving flying to Montreal to meet him in person.
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#Flames
who stood out positively during the post-season:
-G Cam Talbot
-D Rasmus Andersson
-D Noah Hanifin
-F Dillon Dube
-F Playoff Sam Bennett
-F Matthew Tkachuk
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Darryl Sutter has coached the
#Flames
for three full NHL seasons (2003-04, 2005-06 and 2021-22).
The Flames won their division in two of those seasons.
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The $1m boost in the cap will be likely be eaten up for the
#Flames
by Johnny Gaudreau's raise. Or Matthew Tkachuk's raise. Or Andrew Mangiapane's raise. Or Oliver Kylington's raise.
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On air with
@Fan960Steinberg
,
#Flames
GM Brad Treliving confirms it was a sign and trade deal with Florida. The league told Treliving it was the first-ever sign-and-trade.
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For those following along at home:
Milan Lucic has a $5.25m cap hit for Calgary and $750K for Edmonton
James Neal has a $750K cap hit for St. Louis and $1.9m cap hit for Edmonton
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In the most Matthew Tkachuk sequence ever, Tkachuk took two penalties fighting a goalie and drew three penalties.
#Flames
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Via
@ArponBasu
's great look at Sean Monahan, there's this terrifying bit documenting how much Monahan's life *sucked* due to injuries late in his Calgary run.
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10 years ago today, future Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla made the most important pass in Canadian hockey history.
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Folks, there's a lot of doom and gloom regarding the local hockey club, but let me offer a bit of a ray of sunshine.
The underlying numbers, on both sides of the puck, strongly suggest Jakob Pelletier is the real deal as an impactful 200-foot player.
#Flames
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"We want him back here. We're going to move heaven and earth to do everything we possibly can to get Johnny back here." -Brad Treliving on After Hours on Johnny Gaudreau, pending UFA.
#Flames
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#Flames
D Oliver Kylington is currently the NHL's outright leader in points by a defenseman at 5v5.
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With the win, Cam Talbot is now tied for 5th all-time in
#Flames
playoff goalie wins... with three.
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Only two Johnny Gaudreau goals in the first round. But... one was a penalty shot goal that stood as the game-winner, the other was an overtime game-winner that won the series.
#Flames
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#Flames
past five weeks: They've basically replaced Brad Richardson, Adam Ruzicka & Tyler Pitlick with Ryan Carpenter, Calle Jarnkrok and Tyler Toffoli on their NHL roster.
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Reminder: because of retained salary, the Oilers are paying Milan Lucic to play against them tonight.
#Flames
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If Sean Monahan sits tomorrow vs. Arizona, it's his first healthy scratch since Feb. 9, 2016, when he, Johnny Gaudreau and Lance Bouma were parked by Bob Hartley after being late for practice after the Super Bowl.
#Flames
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April 17: Brad Treliving out as GM
April 25: Arena deal announced
May 1: Darryl Sutter out as coach
May 23: Craig Conroy in as GM
June 12: Ryan Huska in as coach
June 15: Jarome Iginla in as advisor
A pretty eventful off-season and player movement hasn't even begun.
#Flames
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My condolences to all impacted by the disappointing news, but it appears the
#Flames
' locker room nickname for Tyler Toffoli is "Toff."
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Unless his play falls off a cliff, I really don't see how
#Flames
can send Adam Ruzicka back to Stockton after the performances he's had so far.
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Have confirmed with
@Sportsnet
that they'll be airing the Jarome Iginla retirement ceremony in its entirety live on Sportsnet West on March 2.
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Rasmus Andersson, Calgarian, refusing to say Rogers Place in Edmonton has the best road locker room in the NHL.
We love player polls at The Athletic and especially in the NHL department,
❓Next city for expansion
❓Best/worst city nightlife
❓Best/Worst road dressing room
❓Player to be aware of on the ice
Here's what they had to say ⤵️
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Can confirm, no supplemental discipline for
#Flames
F Milan Lucic for his hit on Mike Smith in Game 3.
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#Flames
are winless when entering the third period down five goals on the road on a Thursday in February.
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Johnny Gaudreau has scored big goals in the USHL, NCAA championships, Beanpots, World Juniors and NHL regular season games.
From his own mouth: That's the biggest goal he's ever scored.
#Flames
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Seattle Thunderbirds F Tij Iginla has been invited to Hockey Canada's Under-17 Development Camp that runs July 10-16 in Calgary.
His father was an NHL player of note, I am told.
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Craig Conroy was informed by Don Maloney on Friday that he would be the next general manager. And then had to keep quiet about it for an entire long weekend.
Craig Conroy. Keeping quiet. For a long weekend.
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Per broadcast, Rick Ball returns to the booth on Saturday night for the
#Flames
game against Winnipeg.
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If we're spitballing here:
Gaudreau-Lindholm-Tkachuk
Mangiapane-Backlund-Coleman
Dube-Monahan-Toffoli
Lucic-Ruzicka-Lewis
#Flames
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Brad Treliving's 2022 off-season:
IN: Jonathan Huberdeau, Nazem Kadri, Kevin Rooney, MacKenzie Weegar
OUT: Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, Matthew Tkachuk, Erik Gudbranson
#Flames
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Love this quote from
#Flames
head coach Darryl Sutter: "You have to play every shift like it's the one that'll be the difference. That's the way it works."
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#Flames
F Jonathan Huberdeau won't be wearing 11 with his new team, as that's Mikael Backlund's. Huberdeau will make a decision on the next few days.
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In addition to leading the NHL in minors drawn, Tkachuk has also drawn 14 games of opposition suspensions.
Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog suspended four games for cross-checking Calgary’s Matthew Tkachuk.
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