Darryl Sutter News

Darryl Sutter's prime off-season catch makes his official debut tonight as a Flame.

Jake Voracek, who is in his second season with the Blue Jackets, has four goals and six assists.

Tossing the puck towards the faceoff dot like a lion tamer would hurl raw meat, Brent Sutter ordered two of his most ferocious beasts to do battle.

The Detroit Red Wings prepare to battle the Calgary Flames tonight without the services of Jonathan Ericsson and Valtteri Filppula , and the 7-3-and-2 Flames, whose 3-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche broke a 3-game winning streak, have no qualms about kicking the Wings while they're down, as Jarome Iginla told the Calgary Sun's Wes Gilbertson: ...

Lanny McDonald lifts the Stanley Cup after the Flames' famous win in 1989. Photograph by: Calgary Herald, Archive Three decades is a lot to sift through, particularly for an eyewitness to 26 of them.

Well, well. They crash the party, after all. But only by sneaking in through the servants' entrance.

The livestock comes rumbling through the chutes today. At 9 a.m., the Calgary Flames veterans - a beefy herd - begin to show up for physicals, fitness testing and possibly branding.

In recent years I have come to expect the worse from Calgary Flames clubs whom have been great in the regular season, only to underachieve in the playoffs.

Yes, it's way too early to start talking about the fact the Calgary Flames leading scorer is free to play anywhere he wants next season.

It's said that the Calgary Flames signed Curtis Glencross to a free-agent contract while the Edmonton Oilers were looking the other way.

Reclamation projects are a thing of the past. For the Calgary Flames, the future is in its youth.

Rich Preston's first visit to the Brandt Centre was full of nostalgia. The Regina native made his "home" debut on Saturday as the head coach/GM of the Lethbridge Hurricanes, who hired the former NHL assistant on June 30.

If there's anyone who knows about the type of growing pains Jarome Iginla is going through, it's Rick Nash.

There aren't many years left for the Calgary Flames' core players to have their best chance to win a Stanley Cup.

The Calgary Flames hope an upcoming five-game homestand will get them back into the win column, as they take on the Northwest Division-rival Vancouver Canucks tonight at the Saddledome.

By all accounts, there still haven't been any signatures or handshakes exchanged between the Calgary Flames and star defenceman Dion Phaneuf, a potential restricted free agent.

John Madden plays for the Chicago Blackhawks this season, but he toiled for New Jersey when current Calgary Flames head coach Brent Sutter guided the Devils.

One-quarter of the season is in the books. What have the Calgary Flames learned so far? Well, for starters, they've been reminded that petitioning the National Hockey League head office for a November start to the campaign might not be a horrible idea.

Even before the final horn sounded at the Pengrowth Saddledome on Wednesday night, Flames diehards were muttering the obligatory: "Wait till next year." The glass-half-full types will pin their hopes on the comforting knowledge the club's top three scorers -- Jarome Iginla, Daymond Langkow and Dion Phaneuf -- the entire six-man blue-line brigade -- ...

In his silence, Darryl Sutter symbolically shouted his faith from the rooftops. "Every player in here,'' said defenceman Robyn Regehr, "can consider that a vote of confidence.