Well, I was not ready for this on an overcast Friday afternoon. The Flames trade James Neal to Edmonton of all places for MILAN LUCIC. Understandably, a lot of Flames fans are groaning at this, and I seem to be in the minority of those who are tentatively pretty pumped about the trade. The...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-flames-new-arena-deal-1.5217783?cmp=rss Looks like the Flames and the city are "close to a deal" on the new arena. Not sure how significant that is, as it seems like we've been 'close to a deal' a few times before. Regardless, the official...

Literally ANYTHING would be better than that ugly grungy parking lot and chainlink fence lmao. ANYTHING.

Indeed you could've. No reason to insult, berate, and blame other people, especially for circumstances largely out of their control. How many live in Ogden? 9000? Don't pretend all 1.3M+ of us Calgarians can afford to live right beside a c-train station or within walking distance to the downtown...

Was reading this article this morning, looking at some possible UFA goaltenders to sign as a backup or 1A/1B with Rittich. As much as Smitty's playoff effort was spectacular, and as much as I like McElhinney, I feel like our best option out of those three would be Talbot. And that's not just...

What you're saying makes sense, I'm pretty sure we all ultimately want better public transportation and more pedestrian prioritization. The fact that people who, by circumstance, are required to use cars are deserving of zero sympathy doesn't make sense. And, in other places, it might add a few...

UrbanWarrior a few pages back: "Yeah, I can't feel at all sorry for people in environmentally destructive, climate controlled boxes when the proposal is about prioritizing pedestrians. All at the same time making Stampede Park much more connected to the urban fabric and the whole immediate area...

We can all say "people should only use public transit, not cars!" and be all Kumbaya about everything, but face it, that's not how this society functions currently. You can say everyone should live in the downtown core and walk everywhere, that's not practical. I live in the NW, a 25 minute walk...

I hope so. The ctrain does cross 25th ave, and runs just east of Mcleod, like they have in that picture. You're right though, it's probably 17th ave. Either way, if they truly want to "connect the Beltline and VP" in the manner they say, through putting everything at ground level, they'd have to...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/stampede-station-revamp-1.5141417 Wtf ... this looks like a huge step backwards to me. I thought there was talk of raising Erlton station above ground because the traffic in this area gets so bad. Now they want VP Station entirely at ground level with a...

Agreed ^ Definitely overreacting guys. Not a piece of glass nor spandrel nor anything has even been put up yet and you're all ready to burn Cidex at the stake. Wait and see how it goes.

Yup. Refs are the most inconsistent bunch of bastards i've ever seen. That disallowed Gaudreau goal? The exact same play happened for Toronto today, and it counted. Not only that, Bennett was pulled by the Avs guy into his goalie, his goalie moved towards the net, had some time to get back, the...

The refs that game were absolutely horrible, they've been bad all series and really all season but this game especially. Seems like they were making every soft call they could on the Avs but obvious highsticks, hooks, and trips on Flames players were ignored. I don't like being THAT guy, and...

Bleh. What a disgusting game. In all honesty I shut it off when it went 3-0. Turned it back on when we scored making it 4-1, then it became 5-1 soon after and i went to bed. Just a horrible effort. Bennett and Smith have been the only two guys giving it their all in this series imo, and you...

What a game last night. Smith was absolutely insane, 5 or 6 amazing glove saves. Agree with @Surrealplaces though, this one will be difficult. They had lots of good chances and that top line is scary. That being said, we have so much depth - our top line wasn't even really going yet, except for...

Yup! Johnny was otherworldly in that game. Funny, the Vegas game the 2nd line burst out with 11 points and a Chucky hattrick and we all went nuts. Guess the top line got jealous, cause they came out even harder this game. Can't imagine what the third line's got in plan for Friday! We're...

Aaaaaaaaaand we did nothing. Well. I guess we added checks notes Oscar Fantenberg? Don't worry, I said "who?" as well. We have a great team and all, but just looking at how cheap some of these guys ended up being is irritating. Vegas basically ended up snagging Mark freaking Stone for an okay...

Totally agree. Those guys have been kind of underappreciated and some (like Hath) hated on for a lot of the year, glad they're getting attention now. I still think it's incredibly understated how good Lindholm has been for us. Though most of our top guys are ice cold right now, he's still lights...

I figured this would happen eventually. We're in a bit of a slump. We're still winning the odd game, we're still playing generally fine, lots of pressure in the enemy's zone but we're just not getting the wins. Vs San Jose we missed at least 6 open net chances. Vs Vancouver we piled on nearly 50...

They might be a little rusty for the first few back, maybe similar to how we started 2019. Shaky, defensive lapses, bad passes, that kind of thing. Thankfully we still won most of those. But unless a key guy gets injured long term I think we should generally be fine. All star game was a rough...