It is now mid January, which is around the time that trade talks tend to heat up on a Brian Burke run team. After all, he likes making his biggest splashes early, as evidenced by the acquisition of Joffrey Lupul and Jake Gardiner last year, and Dion Phaneuf, Keith Aulie, and Fredrik Sjostrom the year [...]

If there’s one thing that made a lasting impression in last night’s game, it was the MTS Centre crowd. The newest audience in the NHL showed a national viewership that they weren’t just excited for the first game back, and plan on making all their commotion a thing. 15000 people in the crowd, spending 60 [...]

Here’s an experiment for you – go to a Calgary Flames fan, and offer them a team that’s the youngest in the NHL, with a 24 year old star winger, an almost as good late 20′s linemate, solid offensive depth around them, a decent but more importantly very young defensive core, and while the goaltending [...]