Kris Versteeg scores twice as Blackhawks hammer Calgary Flames 7-1 (The Canadian Press)
CALGARY - With a nearly unstoppable power play, the Blackhawks easily cruised to their fifth straight victory Thursday night.

CALGARY - With a nearly unstoppable power play, the Blackhawks easily cruised to their fifth straight victory Thursday night.
British Columbia's provincial health officer says Vancouver Canucks players jumped the line when they received swine flu vaccinations this week. "If they got the vaccine and they weren't in any of the risk groups as individuals then they were queue-jumping," Dr. Perry Kendall said in an interview on Thursday.
The Denver Post's Adrian Dater tweeted and then backed off a second-hand report of a shouting match between...
CALGARY - If Theo Fleury decides to pursue criminal charges against former junior hockey coach Graham James, Sheldon Kennedy will be in his former teammate's corner.
Ryan Wilson's first NHL points fittingly came against the team that traded him away. The Colorado rookie scored his first career goal and added an assist, Milan Hejduk got the game-winner and the Avalanche beat the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Tuesday night. Originally signed as a free agent by Calgary on July 1, 2008, Wilson was dealt to Colorado last March along with forward Lawrence Nycholat and a...
It was a battle for top spot in the Northwest division as the Flames had been on a hot streak as of late tallying eleven of a possible twelve points and came into the game trailing the upstart Avalanche but just a single point. For their part the Avs were fresh off an 8-2 drubbing and have cooled off a little since their lightning-quick start to the season only posting a modest 5-4-1 record in the...
Henrik Sedin's first career hat-trick and a pair of goals from Steve Bernier powered Vancouver to an 8-2 win over the Avalanche in Colorado on Saturday night.
A few notes and thoughts before the Leafs game tonight vs Calgary. Ron Wilson needs to set the team’s alarm clock back an hour or so, because again last night, the Leafs allowed the first goal, on a really bad giveaway to Patrick Kane by Luke Schenn and woke up trailing 3-0. At that point, the Leafs played a decent game and made the result close, but this team does not have the offensive f...
The Chicago Blackhawks jumped out to a 2-0 first-period lead and withstood a late charge by Toronto to win their NHL-leading 9th game on home ice this season, 3-2, on Friday night.
Carolina Hurricanes coach Paul Maurice has decided to give veteran Manny Legace the start in net as the team tries to end a monster losing streak on Wednesday night against the visiting Los Angeles Kings.
Two of the NHL's busier goalies figure to be back in net after rare nights off when the Edmonton Oilers visit the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday.
Calgary forward Curtis Glencross was suspended three games by the NHL on Monday because of a high hit he put on Chris Drury of the New York Rangers. Glencross caught Drury with a shoulder to the head in the first minute of Calgary's 3-1 win Saturday night. Rangers coach John Tortorella said Drury sustained a concussion and expressed his unhappiness with the lack of a penalty call at the time,...
As per TSN: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=297790 Looks like the league agreed with Ranger's coach John Tortorella at least in principle as the NHL has handed down a three same suspension to the Flames forward today. John made no bones about the fact that he thought the hit was dirty and it should have resulted in a five minute major when the hit occurred but it was "missed" by the official...
Alberta's health board says a second person has been fired for helping set up a private clinic for Calgary Flames players and their families to get the H1N1 flu vaccine. Alberta Health Services launched an investigation earlier this week into how the hockey players got shots while thousands of Albertans waited in line.
CALGARY - Alberta's health board says a second person has been fired for helping set up a private clinic for Calgary Flames players and their families to get the H1N1 flu vaccine.
In order to provide full disclosure I feel that's it's only fair to admit that as I watched the overtime last night and saw Dallas defenseman Niklas Grossman shoot the puck over the glass I immediately turned to the person I was watching with and said: "but doesn't he have to be in his own zone for it to be a penalty?". Well, one would assume that from reading the rulebook... Don't believe me? Jus...
Calgary coach Brent Sutter recently asked for more from captain Jarome Iginla, and that's what Sutter got. Iginla scored a power-play goal at 1:25 of overtime -- his second goal of the game -- to give the Flames a 3-2 comeback victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night. "Certainly Jarome's game was good, and not just because he scored two goals," Sutter said.
DALLAS - Jarome Iginla scored on a power play at 1:25 of overtime to give the Calgary Flames a 3-2 comeback victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night.
So heads supposedly did roll as a result of the private clinic deploying the H1N1 Vaccine to the Flames players and their families as per TSN http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=297196
Ok, so the Flames have been playing with similar frequency to sightings of Bigfoot for the last several games but tonight the Flames begin a set of three games in four nights as they face Dallas for the second time this season. Sure the sporadic schedule seemed to be positive initially as the Flames were able to really work on some things in practise and it translated into a 3-0 start of their...
The provincial health minister wants to know if swine flu shots were "inappropriately diverted" to the Calgary Flames while thousands had to stand in line for hours for the vaccine. Alberta Health Minister Ron Liepert says he doesn't know where the NHL team got the vaccine, adding that Alberta Health Services is the only supplier in the province.
CALGARY - The Alberta government has launched an investigation into how members of the Calgary Flames and their families scored swine flu shots at a special clinic as thousands of people waited in line for the vaccine or were turned away.
The team you're playing is in the second game of a back-to-back situation. They are on a huge roll to start the season, but many pundits feel that it's only a matter of time until their bubble bursts. Sure their goalie has been putting up some gaudy numbers that have set franchise records for continuous starts and October wins but it's merely a mirage, a game of smoke and mirrors and misdirection...
Wojtek Wolski broke a tie at 5:31 of the third period, and Craig Anderson made 30 saves to help the Colorado Avalanche reach 10 victories with a 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night. Wolski scored his team-high eighth goal, beating Miikka Kiprusoff with a wrist shot from the high slot. Anderson has started all 13 games for Colorado (10-1-2).
The Montreal Canadiens will go for their first five-game winning streak in more than a year when they visit the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday.