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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 tournament, which really should be excluded) last night, in an innovative two-city split-squad…Read More

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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…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,…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,…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…Read More

December Drought for the Flames

Wow… how bad are the Flames this December? Just terrible, after coming out of November looking…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…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…Read More