I would like to welcome you all to the new Calgary Flames thread. If you have any insight, questions or general comments about the Calgary Flames this is the place to be.

I wasn’t always a Calgary Flames fan in fact growing up I hated them as they were in the same division as my Winnipeg Jets. Even after I moved to Calgary I still did not like the Calgary Flames but that all changed in May of 2004. With all the Vancouver Canuck fans that live in Calgary is was pretty easy for me to defend my city and become a Flames fan even if it were only going to last one series or so I thought.

After Calgary knocked off the now hated Canucks the Flames moved on to the Detroit Redwings. I was watching one the games at Boston Pizza on the famous 17th ave and after the game I was on my way home walking to my car when I see the beginning of the Red Mile. Cars were going up and down the strip yelling and screaming and blaring there music and then it happened, right in front of me. The moment that made me a Calgary Flames Fan For Life: A girl in a Jeep that drove by lifted up her shirt and flashed me! And a couple of cars later another girl did the same thing and a tradition was born! I have been a diehard fan ever since.

I will do my best to give you all the Flames coverage that you can handle and I can’t wait to discuss the Calgary Flames with all of you.

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Studs N Duds - Sunday's

12 Team NHL Salary Cap Dynasty
H2H, Salary Cap 82mil, Player actual salaries
G,A,PTS,GWG,PIM,SOG,STP,HT,BL,+/-,W,GAA,SV,SO
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies

F - Stamkos, Perry, E.Staal, Voracek, J.Staal, Simmonds, Ott, Downie, J.Jokinen, Eller, Nielson, Prust
D - Martin, Faulk, Brodie, Ellerby, M.Weber, Stone
G - Bobrovsky, Halak
Bench - Brunner, Brodie, Strachan, Khudobin, Lindback, Neuvirth, Ramo

Prospects - Calvert, Forsberg, Etem, Namestinikov, Kreider, Cundari

Sweet, some insight from the future!

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Welcome to the team!! Looking forward to all sorts of Flames news and I am sure some odd humor along the way haha. Seriously though, welcome aboard!

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Good to have you. Ill get u started with some thought on these guys going forward?

Hanowski
Cammy
Cundari

With the team being in a weird middle ground whats your take on how these guys will look next yr and on.

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g/a/+-/PIM/PPP/SHP/SOG/W/GAA/SV%/SHO
play 4c/4lw/4rw/6d/2g (2min start)
Center: Getzlaf, Marleau, Ribiero, Pavelski
RW: Hossa, Horton, Downie, Franzen, vrbata
LW: Kovalchuk, D.Sedin, Semin, Fleischmann,
Defense : Enstrom, Myers, Goligoski, Wisniewski, Hamilton, Cowen
Goalies: Lundqvist, Brodeur, Pavelec S.Mason,

Farm noteables: Niederreiter, Greiss, Frazee, Kinkaid, Grigorenko

Just to add to DR's answers, I covered Hanowski and Cundari in some past articles:

http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index...ookie-signings
http://hockey.dobbersports.com/index...ains-part-viii

Not all relevant today, but hopefully it adds to the overall picture.

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Montreal Canadiens coverage

Twitter:@DH_EricDaoust.

Hanowski - I watch this guy play live and even though he did score he didnt impress me all that much. I know that he is still young but I felt that he was a step behind and couldnt keep up with his line mates. I see him as a 3rd line guy.

Cammy - There have been some talk around town that Cammy is on the way out. I sure hope he isnt. The Flames still need some veteran leadership on this team to show the young kids the ropes. I still think he should be on the Flames top line with Tanguay.

Cundari - I really like this kid. He does it all. He can score, shoot, hit and eat up minutes. He will start on the top 4 next year and get tons of PP time.

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Derek Reese - Future Hall of Famer
Studs N Duds - Sunday's

12 Team NHL Salary Cap Dynasty
H2H, Salary Cap 82mil, Player actual salaries
G,A,PTS,GWG,PIM,SOG,STP,HT,BL,+/-,W,GAA,SV,SO
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies

F - Stamkos, Perry, E.Staal, Voracek, J.Staal, Simmonds, Ott, Downie, J.Jokinen, Eller, Nielson, Prust
D - Martin, Faulk, Brodie, Ellerby, M.Weber, Stone
G - Bobrovsky, Halak
Bench - Brunner, Brodie, Strachan, Khudobin, Lindback, Neuvirth, Ramo

Prospects - Calvert, Forsberg, Etem, Namestinikov, Kreider, Cundari

Thanks buddy!

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Derek Reese - Future Hall of Famer
Studs N Duds - Sunday's

12 Team NHL Salary Cap Dynasty
H2H, Salary Cap 82mil, Player actual salaries
G,A,PTS,GWG,PIM,SOG,STP,HT,BL,+/-,W,GAA,SV,SO
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies

F - Stamkos, Perry, E.Staal, Voracek, J.Staal, Simmonds, Ott, Downie, J.Jokinen, Eller, Nielson, Prust
D - Martin, Faulk, Brodie, Ellerby, M.Weber, Stone
G - Bobrovsky, Halak
Bench - Brunner, Brodie, Strachan, Khudobin, Lindback, Neuvirth, Ramo

Prospects - Calvert, Forsberg, Etem, Namestinikov, Kreider, Cundari

Is Todd Marchand playing on the 3rd line in BOS and who are his linemates usually?

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H2H, Salary Cap 82mil, Player actual salaries (all)
+/-,G,A,GWG,PTS,STP,PIM,SOG,HT,BS,GAA,SO,SV,W
Starters: 12 Forwards, 6 Defense, 2 Goalies

Forwards: Fleischmann, Duchene, Ennis, Kessel, M.Koivu, Neal, Conacher, D.Sedin, H.Sedin, Bailey, J.Thornton, Bozak
Defense: Carlson, Gardiner, Kulikov, Franson, Dillon, MacDonald
Goalie: Rask, Crawford
Reserves: B.Schenn, Cowen, Fraser, Gryba, Brodeur, Emery, Pavelec
Prospects: Gallagher, Chiasson, Killorn, A.Larsson, Murphy, Rielly
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Brad Marchand? Also wrong thread? Hanowski will be in the AHL next year, Flames just had to show something to the fanbase. He isn't more than a third liner.

Cammy will be on the team to start the year next year if for no other reason thatn basically no team will be able to take on a full 6 mil cap hit, we will see where he is at the end of the year. I can see him being a deadline move, but I also know he legitimately loves Calgary. I could see him really taking a pay cut to stay here, he wanted to last time and the organization chose Olli over him (terrible call). Somewhere in the ranfge of $4 mil/year or maybe like Tanguay money (I think he is making $5mil, $6 is too much though).

Cundari and Brodie will be an interesting battle. I think they are basically fighting for the same spot. Wideman is going to be top PP, so his partner will be either Brodie or Cundari, and then second PP will be the other one and Gio. Derek Smith and Chris Butler probably round out the top 6.

Random funny tidbit, a random flames fan I follow on twitter (I also live in Calgary, but to be clear I am a Pens fan and have been since Crosby was drafted) think Brodie will easily finish top 5 in D scoring next year, to which I laughed in his face and agreed that would happen as long as the top 20-30 guys ahead of him got injured for the whole year.

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12 Team Keeper, Keep 17, Keepers
Roster: 4C, 3RW, 3LW, 5D, 2U, 3B, 3IR, 4G (Start 2)
Stats: G(3), A(2), +/-, PIM(0.5), PPP(2), SHP(3), GWG(2), HITS(0.1), BLKS(0.2), W(3), L(-1), OTL (1), GA(-1), SV(0.2), SO(3)

C: Crosby, Tavares, Datsyuk, Nugent-Hopkins, Johansson
LW: Hall, Parise, Silfverberg, Skinner, Conacher
RW: Seguin, Wheeler, Burns, Pavelski, Yakupov, Nyqist
D: Doughty, Fowler, J. Johnson
G: Schneider, Hiller, Fasth, Nabokov

Good to see you running this thread, Derek. Look forward to the updates.