Training Camp Turnover: 3 Possible Trades Before Puck Drop
September is here and thus signals the start of the hockey season. The World Cup of Hockey is in full swing and rookie tournaments have begun league-wide. While the weather…
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Applicants Wanted: Top 5 PTO Candidates for the Flames
Training camp is a month away and it’s time for general managers to extend professional try-outs (PTOs) to those unrestricted free agents (UFAs) that remain without a contract. This has…
Sam Bennett Crucial to Flames Success in 2016-17
The Flames off-season has been an eventful one. While they solved their goaltending problems and added a top six right-winger in Troy Brouwer, they still have some work to do…
Q&A: Catching Up with Craig Conroy
Craig Conroy joined the Flames management team following his retirement as a player in 2011. In 2014, he was named Assistant General Manager of the Flames when Brad Treliving took…
Testing Treliving Telepathy: Three Trades to Improve the Flames
The Stanley Cup Finals are almost complete and the off-season is right around the corner. There have already been a couple of deals leading up to the draft on June…
Analyzing Calgary’s Cap Climate
A couple of weeks ago my colleague Ryan Pike assessed the Calgary Flames upcoming free agents and what they mean to the team. Below I attempt to supplement that with…
Crease Crisis in Colorado Could Have Avs Goalie Shopping
The slow start to the Avalanche season took a potentially disastrous turn Thursday night when both Semyon Varlamov & Reto Berra sustained injuries that could see them miss significant time.…
Leaving Their Footprint: 5 Must Watch Avs At Training Camp
Do you smell that? Pause, take a deep breath in and enjoy. It’s mid September, and hockey is in the air. All over North America and Europe skates are being…
What Does Your NHL Expansion Team Look Like?
The Vancouver Province reported NHL expansion to Las Vegas and Seattle as a “done deal” early last week and the hockey world has been a buzz about the notion ever…
Colorado Management Seeking Monster Success
Val d’Or Captain Samuel Henley was 1 of 5 undrafted players signed by the Avs this off-season “We need to improve our minor league team, this is the next step…
Avalanche Off-Season: The Good, The Bad & The …”Meh”
The dust has settled on a busy few weeks of the NHL off season and the Avalanche roster has seen some notable changes. Now all that is left to do…
Top 10 Compliance Buy-Out Candidates
With the Stanley Cup Finals almost complete, the contract buy-out period is right around the corner. Last off season Grabovski, Lecavalier and Briere became free agents because of a new…