By Peter Maher Miikka Kiprusoff played as good as he’s ever played in Anaheim but still suffered another loss.  This time it was eight-shooters deep into a shootout before losing 3-2 Monday to the Ducks.  It was the Flames 14th straight loss within the shadows of Disneyland.  Kiprusoff has been the goalie in 10 of [...]

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  The Flames commence the February portion of their schedule on Thursday hosting Chicago in the exact same position in Western Conference standing that they were a year ago.   However, the Conference landscape is much different.   A year ago the trumpets were heralding the best playoff race ever in the West.  Positions 4 [...]

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  The Flames did a number of things right on Tuesday, but as colleague Pat Steinberg so accurately put it starting the Overtime call-in show, “Moral victories aren’t any good at this time of year.”   Playing the  NHL’s best team, the Flames took the Detroit Red Wings into the 2nd half of the 3rd [...]

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  There was once a time in the mid-80′s when the Flames played 13 games against the Edmonton Oilers without gaining a win.   The Flames have a similiar domination going now against their provincial rivals.   Lee Stempniak’s “hat trick”, the first by a Flame this season, on Saturday in Edmonton,was the latest Flame [...]

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In his pre-game comments to the media prior to Thursday’s match in Los Angeles, Flame GM Jay Feaster was emphatic he didn’t want media types, by extension fans and his players discussing injuries. In a news briefing called to update the teams’ 8 injured players, Feaster got emotional underscoring that injuries would not be an [...]

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It was a game where the Flames deserved better based on execution and effort, inside….. ….The good news is they got a point against a strong Shark team in San Jose on Tuesday. The bad new is losing the second point plus their top goal scorer in the 2-1 shootout setback. Curtis Glencross and his [...]

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  Two hours after Jay Feaster made his second trade in a week, the man he got in the first transaction delivered the OT goal in a 1-0 win over Anaheim on Thursday.   With the Scotiabank Saddledome crowd still buzzing about the deal that brought Mike Cammalleri back to Calgary, Blair Jones sent them [...]

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  Perhaps it should now be called the “Jarome Iginla Hat Trick” any time a player has a goal, assist and a fight in game.   That’s just one of the interesting aspects from a strange 6-3 Flame win over the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday.   It was a strange game on-the-ice producing some strange-but-term [...]

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  Brent Sutter revealed Monday that Mark Giordano could be back in the Flame line-up this week — likely Thursday or Saturday.   ….And while the depleted roster could greatly use his services of their best skater since he went down with that hamstring injury on Nov.29, the club needs to exercise caution.   The injury is one [...]

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For the second time in less than 2 years, Jarome Iginla played a major role turning gloom into gold. After Thursday 9-0 blasting in Boston, one wondered that atmosphere would be like in the Scotiabank Saddledome on Saturday when the Flames hit the ice against Minnesota. Rather than rip on the local skaters with jeers, [...]

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