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It seems for now the Flames faithful are content with the course the Flames are on.  With three wins in the past three games, the grumbles of dissatisfaction seem to have mellowed out and the fans are focusing on the high points of the Flames.  I am not as happy but really, there is no pleasing me when it comes to Flames hockey.  I demand excellence from the Flames. With that being said, the Flames are now undefeated this season against the Oilers AND the Avalanche, which is impressive, even as both teams flounder more with each passing week.  The [...]

Hello everyone! So sorry for the delay, there was some technical issues with the site, two nights ago we had the chat so I didn’t get a chance to do a preview or review, and then finals have taken over my life so it’s all been a blur of German film and literature.  But enough about that! Wow what a week for the NHL, the Board of Governors going and voting up a new division of the league.   Now the Flames will be in a Conference with Anaheim, Colorado, Edmonton, LA, Phoenix, San Jose, and Vancouver.  Not exactly the happiest [...]

  To say that the win last night was a much needed kick in the butt for the Flames would be an understatement.  While their play was not the cleanest, 4 of the 6 penalties called on the Flames last night was due to sloppy play, it’s hard to not be excited over the 5-2 victory over a team who blew them out a week earlier 4-1. The Flames finished up a very short 2 game stretch at home split with a win and a loss.  While the 2 points lost to the Ottawa Senators was not ideal, they did [...]

So my original post was going to be on how the Flames have so much money tied up in the press box with healthy scratches, but it took me too long to get my butt writing and well now their biggest cap drain in the press box is on the ice tonight, damn you Cory Sarich, going and playing the game tonight! Instead, I sit here and struggle to come up with a topic for this post.  I didn’t write a game preview because what am I going to say? Flames can’t capitalize on the power play and the Blackhawks [...]

Sorry about the delay, the nor’easter that hit the area managed to take out all power and internet.  I’ve been without anything for about 24 hours and will have another 24 more without.  Because of this, yesterday’s post about the game against the St. Louis Blues didn’t get to go up and well now, it seems pretty pointless to talk about their performance.  Their next game, Vancouver Canucks, is too far out for me to start complaining about any aspect of the team’s play, so today’s post will be about the Flames’ newest member Roman Horak.

It’s now been almost a year since I started writing for the Flame for Thought blog, and this, regrettably, will be my final entry. Seems an appropriate time to discuss how little has changed with the Flames the past 12 months. Oh, sure, the GM was (mercifully) gassed, some new names have moved to town and some old ones have moved on. And, sure, the team is on a nice roll, turning a miserable season into an exciting playoff race. But really, are they any better than they were this time last year? When I, along with a few friends, [...]

A little more than a month into the Jay Feaster era, and in so many ways, life is much better in Flame Country. The team has clawed its way back into playoff contention (honestly, how the hell did that happen?), Brent Sutter and people around him are cracking smiles occasionally, and GM Feaster is starting to slowly clean up the mess Darryl Sutter had left behind. But in Feaster’s first significant move as GM, he showed that maybe the organization hasn’t changed as much for the better as we might suppose. Last week, Feaster placed Craig Conroy – one of [...]

Two things stand out from the Flames’ 7-4 win over Dallas last night. One, that it was a hell of a quick turnaround from the 6-0 ass-kicking the Flames took in the same rink 48 hours earlier. And two, that it was done in front of a goalie who wasn’t the $6-million all-star the Flames usually rely on to turn things around for them. Henrik Karlsson was hardly much better than Miikka Kiprusoff had been a couple of nights before – four goals in 21 shots is far from brilliant goaltending, and he looked very ordinary on all four of [...]