The Calgary Flames head into the 2024 NHL draft with nine picks total, eight of those being in the first four rounds of the draft. One option for Craig Conroy and his management team is to use some of those draft picks and current NHL players to help them get another pick or two in the top half of the first round.
In a tough season filled with ups and downs, rumours and trades, and a lot of uncertainty and change, MacKenzie Weegar became a rock on and off the ice for the Calgary Flames.
The 2023-24 season was a weird time for the Calgary Flames’ defensive group. Case in point: of the six defencemen that played in the season-opening game against the Winnipeg Jets on Oct.
The Calgary Flames had a weird season in 2023-24, and there’s no better illustration of that weirdness than their special teams play. The club swapped
After three seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Yegor Sharangovich was traded to the Calgary Flames in the Tyler Toffoli trade. At the time, many people grading the trade poorly for Calgary suggested that it was an A+ deal for New Jersey and an F for the Flames.
One of the highlights for the Calgary Flames in an otherwise low season was the play of defenseman MacKenzie Weegar. In his second season with the team, he took a huge step forward, playing like the star the Flames thought they were getting from the Florida Panthers.
The 2023-24 season has been a tough one for the Calgary Flames. They’ve weathered a season of significant locker room change, and their games weren’t always easy as a result.
The Calgary Flames hosted the San Jose Sharks in the 82nd and final game of the season for both teams. And the Flames utterly dominated their opposition for the duration of this hockey game.
Today is one of the quieter days on the sports calendar we've seen in quite some time. But there's still some action to be had.
The Calgary Flames got into a high scoring shot-for-shot battle with the Arizona Coyotes and were able to scrape up enough offence to find the win. The goals weren’t all conventional – this certainly wasn’t a goaltending battle by any means – but the Flames really jumped on the upper side of the shooting percentage.
The Calgary Flames have been in ‘small victory’ mode for a long while so let’s take a look at a glimmer of positivity amidst this tank, oops, sorry, stretch drive.
The Calgary Flames got a shorthanded goal early and never looked back as they rolled over the Anaheim Ducks in a 6-3 win. The Flames handily controlled the pace of play for all three periods, only having about 10 minutes at the start of the third where they were collapsing a bit defensively.
By the time the Calgary Flames were able to seriously apply pressure it was already too late as the Los Angeles Kings took them down on Thursday night.
The Calgary Flames have undergone significant roster changes since the season began in October. But all due respect to Elias Lindholm, no position has seen more significant changes than the Flames’ blueline.
The Calgary Flames don’t currently have a core. Yes, they have some strong veteran players. They also have some promising young prospects. But they don’t have the foundational pieces that every contending team in the National Hockey League has built around.
We went 2-0 yesterday on our two NHL looks, so we opt to keep it simple and stick with just two looks on the ice. Here's to some Saturday winners!
Calgary Flames defenceman MacKenzie Weegar isn’t getting nearly enough recognition this season. The 30-year-old is having a career season, as he already has a career-high 15 goals.
The Calgary Flames have provided their fans with a very interesting 2023-24 NHL season, to say the least. They have gone from a 2-7-1 beginning to the campaign to now sitting just one point out of the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
When the Calgary Flames traded Matthew Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers, it was Jonathan Huberdeau coming back that had fans in Calgary so excited. After all, they were getting a player who had been one of the league’s best offensive producers for several years, and was coming off of a career-best 115-point season.
Since the latest report by David Pagnotta at The Fourth Period, there have been talks around Calgary Flames and Ottawa Senators Twitter (and other social media platforms as well) regarding a potential deal for Flames defenseman MacKenzie Weegar.
YB's Griffin Carroll is back on the NHL grind on a packed Saturday of puck. Nobody digs in the corners like GriffyBets.
Though the Flyers broke a four-game losing streak on Monday night versus the Flames, it was not all good news for the visitors in Calgary. Winger Travis Konecny left the game in the second period with an upper-body injury sustained from a heavy hit from Flames’ defenseman MacKenzie Weegar.
Acquired along with Jonathan Huberdeau, Cole Schwindt and a first-round pick this summer in exchange for Matthew Tkachuk (and a fourth-rounder), Weegar immediately publicized his desire to stay in Calgary long term.
Weegar and the Flames will engage next week about an extension.
The 26-year-old has turned into one of the more underrated defensive defensemen in the league over the last few seasons, spending a good amount of his ice time alongside Aaron Ekblad in Florida.
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