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Calgary Flames Sign Joey MacDonald
The Calgary Flames announced today that they have signed goaltender Joey MacDonald to a one-year, one-way contract with a base salary of $925,000 . MacDonald, a native of Pictou, Nova Scotia, has played 18 games this year with Calgary recording a 7-7-1 record, a 2.91 GAA and a .900 save percentage. MacDonald was originally acquired by the [...]
Calgary Flames Sign Reto Berra
The Calgary Flames have signed Reto Berra to a one year entry-level contract worth $625,000. Berra, 26, was the Blues’ fourth-round pick (No. 106) at the 2006 NHL Draft. He has spent his entire professional career in Switzerland, making his debut in the National League B for the GCK Lions in 2003-2004. During the 2005/06 season he was the back-up to Ari [...]
Flames Sign Laurent Brossoit To Three Year ELC
With the goaltending future in Calgary a big question mark, the Calgary Flames have signed goalie Laurent Brossoit to a three year entry level contract. Brossoit was selected by the Flames in the sixth round, 164th overall, of the 2011 NHL draft. After helping his junior team, the Edmonton Oil Kings, reach the second round of the [...]
Steve Mason Traded To Flyers, Blue Jackets Grab Comeau
The Columbus Blue Jackets have traded Steve Mason to the Philadelphia Flyers in return for Michael Leighton and a third round pick. Mason, 24, was the 2009 Calder Trophy winner as the NHL’s Rookie of the Year. Since then, he has only fallen downwards and was replaced by Sergei Bobrovsky as the starter. The Blue Jackets also received Blake Comeau [...]
St. Louis Blues Grab Bouwmeester From Calgary
The Calgary Flames announced today that they have acquired St. Louis’ 2013 first-round pick, defenseman Mark Cundari and goaltender Reto Berra in exchange for Jay Bouwmeester. Unable to come to terms with Bouwmeester back in 2009, the Florida Panthers traded his negotiating rights to the Calgary Flames in exchange for the negotiating rights to defenceman Jordan Leopold and a third round draft pick (Josh Birkholz) in [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins Will WIn The Stanley Cup, Trade For Iginla
The hockey world thought last night that the Calgary Flames and Boston Bruins had a trade in place to send Jarome Iginla to Beantown. Nope. After 16 NHL seasons in a Flames uniform, captain Jarome Iginla was dealt to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday for college forwards Kenneth Agostino and Ben Hanowski and Pittsburgh’s first-round [...]
Flames sign Avs’ O’Reilly to two-year, $10M offer sheet
According to TSN’s Darren Dreger, the Calgary Flames have filed an offer sheet on forward Ryan O’Reilly for 2 years with a cap hit of $5M per season. If Colorado was to not match, Calgary, who offered O’Reilly $1M the first season and $6.5M the second, would have to give up their first and third [...]
Brian McGrattan Traded Back To Calgary
With Michael Ryder heading back to Montreal and Simon Gagne getting traded to Philadelphia, Calgary wanted to join in on the fun when it comes to trading for former players, re-acquiring Brian McGrattan from the Nashville Predators in return for Joe Piskula. McGrattan passed through waivers yesterday, but went unclaimed. He was drafted by the Los Angeles [...]