The IIHF 2024 men’s World Championships are officially over after Team Czechia defeated Team Switzerland in the gold medal game and Team Sweden defeated Team Canada in the bronze medal match.
Nobody – and I mean nobody – had projected Martin Pospisil to play NHL games in his career. In the 2023-24 season he took his one opportunity and boy oh boy did he make the most of it.
A huge blow for a team gearing for the knockout stage. On Wednesday, it was reported that Slovakia forward Martin Pospisil will miss the remainder of the IIHF Men’s World Championship due to injury.
When it comes to round robin action at the IIHF men’s World Championships and the Calgary Flames, we’ve got good news and bad news for you, folks. The good news is that Canada and Slovakia both finished in the top four of their respective groups and they’re both advancing to the medal round.
Saturday will mark a full month since the Flames last played hockey. A 5-1 win over the San Jose Sharks that saw Dustin Wolf get within 8.9 seconds of his first NHL shutout.
Martin Pospisil has led team Slovakia through their first three games of the World Championships. He is currently leading his team in points with six in three games.
Slovakia faced its biggest challenge so far in the 2024 IIHF men’s World Championship on Monday in Czechia, as they clashed with the United States in round robin action.
You have to wonder when NHL players are going to start getting paid for the intangibles. Sunday night, the Florida Panthers scored a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins to take a 3-1 series lead in their second round playoff series.
We’re a few days into round robin play at the 2024 IIHF men’s World Championships and a couple Calgary Flames players are representing their countries.
It would be an understatement to say that the 2023-24 Calgary Flames were a mixed bag of results. The standings were not good (unless you were rooting for the highest place the team could find in the draft lottery), but plenty of individual performances were encouraging for fans, teammates, coaches, and management.
The Calgary Flames begin every season with a pretty simple goal: to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you want your team to be able to do anything impressive, making it into the post-season tournament is a requirement.
The Scotiabank Saddledome was the site for exit interviews for the Calgary Flames on Friday morning. The Flames players met with coaches and management to discuss the season, briefly chatted with the local media, and then headed off to their off-seasons.
The Calgary Flames fell 4-1 in the penultimate game of the 2023-24 season to the Vancouver Canucks, but even though the score might seem a bit lopsided with the Flames not scoring a goal until the third period from Brayden Pachal (his second of the season) head coach Ryan Huska was a fan of the team’s effort and output.
The Calgary Flames got into a high scoring shot-for-shot battle with the Arizona Coyotes and were able to scrape up enough offence to find the win. The goals weren’t all conventional – this certainly wasn’t a goaltending battle by any means – but the Flames really jumped on the upper side of the shooting percentage.
The Calgary Flames got a shorthanded goal early and never looked back as they rolled over the Anaheim Ducks in a 6-3 win. The Flames handily controlled the pace of play for all three periods, only having about 10 minutes at the start of the third where they were collapsing a bit defensively.
The Calgary Flames didn’t have a great first period on Tuesday against the San Jose Sharks. But man, if you toss out the first 10 minutes or so, they were really good against a Sharks team that entered the game with the 32nd-best record out of the NHL’s 32 teams.
On Thursday night, for the first time in his National Hockey League career, Connor Zary was a spectator when the Flames played the Winnipeg Jets. On Saturday night, also for the first time in his NHL career, Zary was a centre when the Flames played the Edmonton Oilers.
There are a lot of things to like about the way Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil plays hockey. He’s big, and he uses his size well. He moves really well, too, and his combination of size, speed and deceptive skill have made him really useful for the Flames – and earned him a two-year contract extension.
Martin Pospisil seems to keep getting himself in trouble. The Calgary Flames center was ejected from Thursday night’s game against the Winnipeg Jets after elbowing defenseman Josh Morrissey in the head.
Calgary Flames forward Martin Pospisil received a three-game suspension following his hit on Vince Dunn during Monday’s game. The hit happened relatively late in the contest after Jared McCann scored a short-handed goal.
He boarded Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn in the third period of Monday’s game.
The Calgary Flames retained a promising rookie Wednesday evening by inking forward Martin Pospisil to a 2-year, $2 million extension.
Calgary drafted him in the fourth round of the 2018 NHL Draft. He’s already played more NHL games than all but two players taken that round, behind Philipp Kurashev and Paul Cotter.
With Martin Pospisil’s injury, the Flames were expected to bring someone up to take his place before Saturday's game against Edmonton.
The Calgary Flames got some good news regarding center Martin Pospisil, as he’s expected to only miss a couple weeks with his upper-body injury. Pospisil
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