Faces That Shape The Calgary Flames, Part One
February is Black History Month in both Canada and the United States and while hockey is largely populated by mainly white players and fans, it is important to point out that they are not the only ones…Read More
Have the Flames Really Changed?
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…Read More
Jokinen: The Poison Flame
Everything the Flames need to know about Olli Jokinen can be summed up in what has happened the past two weeks. The deadweight centre, having scored all of two goals in his first 17 games of the season…Read More
Backlund To The Future
When Mikael Backlund scored the third-period goal that triggered a come-from-behind victory for the Calgary Flames over the Colorado Avalanche earlier this week, it was a happy reminder: Not everything…Read More
The Aging of Iggy
I promised myself (and a few others) that I wouldn’t pass judgement on the Calgary Flames until we were at least 15 games into the season. That, I figure, is a fair amount of time to figure out…Read More
Pre-Season First Impressions
Hockey’s back, and so am I! The Flames hit the ice for the first time in anger (excluding the rookie…Read More
The goals that got away
Who says the Flames aren’t in the playoffs? Every time I turn on the TV, I’m seeing them…Read More
The off-season intrigue begins
Gonna match Iain’s first-round playoff prognosticating with my own in a few minutes here, but first…Read More
Phaneuf vs. White
Given the Flames current situation, I guess it’s natural to second guess every decision made by…Read More
Abandoned by our leader
Imagine if High Noon had been written differently. Imagine if Gary Cooper, in the face of almost insurmountable…Read More
Recipe for a Denver Omelette
Gotta thank Dave Thomas (aka SundevilD) for not only slipping a Ringo reference into his last post, but also reminding me of a time when we loved the Flames so completely and utterly that we would commit…Read More
A Regular Day
As you may or may not know, this blog is being written by a group of guys who are not only Flames fans, but have been friends for 35 or 40 years. We have good chemistry (unlike the Flames) and share a…Read More
Iggy must be a fan of the Monkees
And my traditional role is to tell Iain he doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about, and that he’s too in love with the Flames GM and/or coach, one/both of whom needs to be fired.…Read More
We’re not done…
I’m Iain. I tend to leave the in-depth analysis to Dave and Daryl, because they’re good at it. Most of my posts will be short and to the point. Like this; “We’re not done. We have…Read More
December Drought for the Flames
Wow… how bad are the Flames this December? Just terrible, after coming out of November looking like one of the teams to beat, they have proven to me, and fellow Calgarians that this is probably another…Read More
Iginla’s Trick Trumps Kings
The puck dropped to start the game and not 30 seconds later, Jarome Iginla had his 13th goal of the year. After that the Flames pretty well owned the first period, with Jokinen and Phaneuf ringing shots…Read More
Ugly Win Against an Ugly Team!
Well…we won, it was not pretty but we got the job done. But lets be completely honest if you aren’t beating the Maple Leafs this year, unless you are Carolina, you better be hanging your head…Read More


Too Many Men
