10 Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo!, Inc. All rights reserved. en-us 126 15 http://sports.yahoo.com http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/b/ysp_logo_rss.gif Latest news and information about the Calgary Flames. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/teams/cgy http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12kohl96m/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/torts-expects-best-rangers-must-091313419--nhl.html NEW YORK (AP) Whether the New York Rangers truly believed they could overcome a 3-2 playoff series deficit earlier this year doesn't matter now. Fri, 25 May 2012 02:13:13 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,e6fac77f-0354-3359-b65b-6075dd29b975-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13r087mun/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-embarrassing-la-sports-media-moments-while-covering-135822855.html Mon, 21 May 2012 06:58:22 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,f879fe6a-83b0-3bf8-9dad-82774f5c572e-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=140o16js9/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/jersey-fouls-penner-pancakes-attack-frankenjerseys-winnipeg-beer-175756966.html Fri, 18 May 2012 10:57:56 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,95454951-1ec3-34b1-b985-6a52626c2376-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12gopasi0/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/oilers-coach-tom-renney-not-223310260--nhl.html EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Tom Renney is out as coach of the Edmonton Oilers. Thu, 17 May 2012 17:27:42 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,bd2a2d81-6371-345b-9fbd-405f5930f0ca-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13l84e0h2/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/tom-renney-contract-not-renewed-edmonton-oilers-might-221336441.html Thu, 17 May 2012 15:13:36 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,32cb288e-65d7-32f9-9e15-7a8a437fab7e-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13k3mjorc/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/hanzal-faces-hearing-winter-classic-liquor-news-time-183823761.html Wed, 16 May 2012 11:38:23 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,081d08ee-643d-3b86-afdb-b5e28b6c1736-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=141svhvcl/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/michel-therrien-marc-crawford-montreal-canadiens-coaching-vacancy-180013574.html Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:13 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,d6bc3e42-418c-3f9f-9f0a-550438a1576b-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=132163kk1/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-washington-capitals-season-122810056.html Mon, 14 May 2012 05:28:10 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,b64b3f05-215d-3e7b-bb33-a5e2f2745783-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12v3vuush/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/americans-blank-finland-quarter-final-spot-210811477--nhl.html The United States secured their place in the world ice hockey championship's last eight with a confident 5-0 win over reigning world champions and the event's co-hosts Finland here on Sunday. Sun, 13 May 2012 14:08:11 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,1483eeee-0387-31ee-9328-c3e40532339a-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=1287mvsrq/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/us-tops-finland-5-0-163354592--nhl.html HELSINKI (AP) Max Pacioretty of the Montreal Canadiens opened the scoring and the United States rolled to a 5-0 victory over defending champion Finland at the ice hockey world championships on Sunday. Sun, 13 May 2012 09:33:54 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,482baa5e-6691-3287-8bcb-2aa18599beef-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=138pgj1ld/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/troy-ward-line-next-coach-calgary-flames-190107261.html Fri, 11 May 2012 12:01:07 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,0f55b478-9478-37da-ad7c-c037ab02054e-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13fcfrhud/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/jonathan-quick-vs-mike-smith-battle-stanley-cup-162106083.html Fri, 11 May 2012 09:21:06 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,23090061-8f1e-3e80-b173-1d758dbe3a23-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=134p481le/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/last-13-stanley-cup-champions-didnt-repeat-part-191100742--nhl.html In the past 13 years, all 13 Stanley Cup champions fell short of raising the Cup another consecutive time. Last week, the first part of this series looked at how the champions from 1999, 2000 and 2001 failed to repeat. This week, part two explores how the 2002, 2003 and 2004 champions missed the chance to win again. Wed, 09 May 2012 12:11:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,beacbf65-fbc6-38e1-8343-9d64f341bb0c-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13t8hodni/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-mediocre-divisions-produce-better-stanley-cup-playoff-142434948.html Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. Occasionally you will hear that playing top teams several times a season, like those in the Atlantic and Central Divisions did this season, is a great way to prepare yourself for the postseason. They say it makes you ready to face the tougher competition in the playoffs, and by extension, those teams playing in softer divisions must logically be ill-prepared for similar rigors once the postseason rolls around. Both of the Atlantic and Central divisions were littered with 100-point teams, boasting eight of the league's 10 to eclipse the century mark between them (the other two being Boston and Vancouver), and it therefore stood to reason that they would likely send the lion's share of competitors to the conference finals. The better teams in the regular season tend to do about as well in the postseason, because they are, after all, very good teams. That makes sense. It turns out, though, that having a bunch of teams even in the neighborhood of 100 points in your division at the end of the regular season actually may be more of a detriment to a squad's postseason success. Since the lockout, only two teams have played in a Stanley Cup Final after playing in a division with three teams that managed 100 points. However, both those teams (Anaheim in 2007 and Chicago in 2010) won the Cup. If you expand that number out to even 97 points — which typically assures you a playoff berth but not home ice — only two more teams are added to the mix, the 2008 and 2009 Penguins. Conversely, teams coming out of divisions with two or fewer 97-point teams got into the Cup Finals with far greater frequency, doing so eight times since the lockout (including both Boston and Vancouver last year). But now we've seen the Los Angeles Kings advance to the Western Conference Final for the first time since 1993, and the Phoenix Coyotes stand on the precipice of doing the same for the first time since ever. Phoenix won the Pacific Division with 97 points, and is only a home ice team by virtue of its division title. Had seeding been based on points, they'd have slotted into the sixth spot. Los Angeles, meanwhile, finished with 95. The now-eliminated Sharks were sandwiched between them with 96. Three teams from one division in the playoffs, yes, but one terribly underwhelming division from which not much was expected. (Coming Up: America is a hockey superpower, thanks to Jack Johnson; Barry Trotz is wrong; Dustin Brown is awesome; Jordan Staal of Carolina; Thomas Vanek makes bank; Luongo to the Blackhawks?; Rick Dudley to the Habs; Jonathan Quick vs. Terry Sawchuck; trading Sidney Crosby; Todd McLellan-to-Calgary rumors; and the best and worst of the Capitals.) Mon, 07 May 2012 07:24:34 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,c6beedda-c66b-3b70-94d9-ff22ebdeed1c-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=128d8ig85/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/blues-kings-preview-203953002--nhl.html EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) The Los Angeles Kings weren't immediately sweet on the Jolly Rancher. Sat, 05 May 2012 13:39:53 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,037e21c7-4d60-3ea5-bd64-260c02cf22e8-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12hmhn0dl/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/sutter-pushes-la-kings-brink-202315185--nhl.html EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) The Los Angeles Kings weren't immediately sweet on the Jolly Rancher. Sat, 05 May 2012 13:39:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,1c4e36f6-cb75-3c5b-8aab-ae3506672c69-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12pm6hgup/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/flames-center-olli-jokinen-abdominal-190048727--nhl.html CALGARY, Alberta (AP) Calgary Flames center Olli Jokinen has undergone surgery on a torn abdominal muscle. Fri, 04 May 2012 12:00:48 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,f9c3402f-515a-3c56-b6b5-fefb49e86f59-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12s25rp34/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-roundup-suspended-nashville-players-224021706--nhl.html Nashville Predators coach Barry Trotz had said earlier this week that if his team won Game 3 against Phoenix he would keep the same lineup for Friday's Game 4, and Trotz on Thursday hinted he may stick to that plan, even though it would mean leaving forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn out of the lineup again. Thu, 03 May 2012 15:40:21 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,dc3a8834-7ab1-3aa8-92b5-fa3dcc02eea0-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12mkn7kgq/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/flames-shouldnt-expect-much-roman-182300688--nhl.html The signing of the Czech forward is an attempt to gain offense, but here's why he probably won't live up to expectations. Thu, 03 May 2012 11:23:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,3b548995-f137-3a07-91b4-da5097660e96-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12mdtiguk/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/flames-sign-czech-center-cervenka-223807968--nhl.html CALGARY, Alberta (AP) The Calgary Flames signed Czech center Roman Cervenka to a $3.775 million, one-year contract. Wed, 02 May 2012 15:38:07 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,2d6e50fc-b4fe-3e5c-9f77-79d2d37ef5c1-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13fr1ts6a/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/playoff-puck-previews-preds-attempt-stave-off-0-223030951.html Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:30 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,704e5a82-976e-34ef-a37f-55b203f64a28-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13lcorbg7/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/nhl-wins-emmy-khl-burmistrov-flyers-victim-conspiracy-185427057.html Tue, 01 May 2012 11:54:27 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,7681e4fa-7f7e-321e-adb5-eb59897c01ba-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13e5q7teu/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-says-stanley-cup-playoff-hockey-boring-134507641.html Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. Watching Saturday's Capitals/Rangers game was an exercise in masochism. Sitting through that game was a test — not unlike that delivered unto Abraham — to see just how much you actually like watching hockey. Two teams playing hockey not so much against each other but rather at each other, or, to put it another way, in defiance of every hockey fan's patience. In that game, four goals were scored on 32 shots. That was between both teams, and not just one, in case you were wondering. Certainly, convention states that playoff hockey is more defensive by nature than the regular season. And though you'd be a fool to subscribe to the belief that defensive hockey is boring hockey, even the most stoic men would have been reduced to tears by the kind of temerity it takes to dare people to sit through 60 minutes of whatever that was on Saturday afternoon. But one team, at least, flatly refuses to play anything like boring hockey. That would be the Philadelphia Flyers, whose efforts have thrilled all viewers not openly supporting their opponents, and enlivened what is otherwise shaping up to be a rather drab final few rounds of the playoffs. ( Coming Up: Pierre McGuire as Habs GM; trading Patrick Marleau; Jagr vs. Brodeur; Matt Greene's unlikely goal; Predators' revenue troubles; Nail for Staal?; Landeskog graded; Columbus addresses its goalie needs; Alex Ovechkin controlled by Rangers; in praise of Danny Briere; the Winnipeg Jets are dogs; and the future of Tim Thomas.) Mon, 30 Apr 2012 06:45:07 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,9cf72b34-e553-3e56-b5e4-54aba3898635-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13803t93q/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/rebuilding-nhl-teams-vs-endowment-effect-160551219.html After a third straight season outside of the playoffs, even the most faithful Flames fans in Calgary are starting to ask the same question pundits and others outside of the city have been asking for several years: Why don't the Flames rebuild? The organization hasn't won a playoff series since 2004 despite boasting one of the most expensive rosters in the league. Calgary's prospect pool is middling and it's marquee players are aging. They remain competitive enough to routinely challenge for a playoff spot, but are as far away from elite now as they have ever been post-lockout. It's a grim, uncertain future for the team. A clearing of the decks and reboot seems in order: trade the aging stars for kids and picks, up the club's cap flexibility and prepare for a few rough years. That's easier said than done, however. There are reasons — both rational and psychological — why teams in Calgary's position are typically hesitant to burn it down and start again. Let's first establish that NHL organizations very rarely engage in a full rebuild voluntarily. Invariably the reason a club decides to start trading stars for picks or marketing prospects to their fanbase in June is they have crashed and burned in their efforts to succeed. Meaning — teams rebuild when the rotted foundation collapses under foot and there is nothing to do by dig their way out. This can seem either shortsighted or delusional from the outside. However, keep in mind that while it's easy to build a terrible team, it's far more difficult to create a winner from scratch — even with the NHL rewarding the league's barrel scrapers with high picks every year. There is therefore very real risk to tearing down a club, which men who are hired and paid to win must be painfully and consistently aware of. From that angle, the gamble of tinkering with a middling team might seem like the better bet versus fire-bombing everything and starting from the bottom of the conference. Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:05:51 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,13a96d63-1820-3479-a1ff-dee210136348-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13chvepd5/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/watch-ray-whitney-thrilling-ot-goal-win-game-045352278.html Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:53:52 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,c707d9e8-318f-351a-8ea3-b2648548e6f0-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12jbv8l7c/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/fans-let-loose-racist-comments-194912829--nhl.html It had all the makings of a feel-good hockey moment - except the guy who scored the goal was black. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:28:51 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,a2e0079c-f374-3c9d-8add-f54e0c45b8a1-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=13qeimo7e/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/vezina-trophy-finalists-henrik-lundqvist-vs-jonathan-quick-155252818.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:52:52 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,07bde73c-5f1e-33eb-a16d-d2181021136d-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=12v7ikj1q/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/news/coaching-goaltending-discipline-carry-west-175900257--nhl.html The Western Conference is all about shutting it down now that the high-powered offenses are gone - and if one of them wins, the off-season will get more interesting Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:59:00 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,693f2b7b-aaf2-343f-bb64-9c40ddbc8cad-l:1 http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/nhl/SIG=136rpf5o6/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/learned-end-red-wings-sharks-know-them-135330625.html Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:53:30 PDT nhl urn:newsml:sports.yahoo,lego:19780928:top,article,d3d969f5-c121-3936-a5fc-023df1e9a16c-l:1 Fri, 25 May 2012 02:13:13 PDT