I run the @FlamesNation website and occasionally appear on shows. I wrote a book about Flames draft history. I'm in the PHWA. Trying to get the score right.
A month after leading Aston Villa to a Europa League crown, John McGinn opens the World Cup scoring for Scotland.
(Heck of a game with Scotland and Haiti right now.)
For a ninth consecutive year, in the interest of transparency, @thePHWA is revealing all voters' NHL awards ballots. You can find them all here: thephwa.com/2026/06/12/phwa-…
Will be writing a handful of stories for @PuckPedia over the next month or so! First up: I searched through the past 21 drafts for the very best hauls of the salary cap era, then ranked them 1-10👇
2025-26 NHL All-Rookie Team:
G, Jakub Dobes (MTL)
D, Matthew Schaefer (NYI)
D, Alexander Nikishin (CAR)
F, Ivan Demidov (MTL)
F, Beckett Sennecke (ANA)
F, Jimmy Snuggerud (STL)
Full voting table ⬇️
Kuznetsov absolutely killed it on the defensive side of the game this year, joining the Flames in November and stabilizing MacKenzie Weegar's game and helping super-charge the PK.
A winger when he played in the OHL (1997-01), Dean has coached continuously since 2008 in the OJHL and OHL. He was coach of the Greyhounds since 2018-19.
🔥 Built-in chemistry!
Markus & Liam Ruck joined @Fan960Steinberg on #Flames Talk to discuss the possibility of being drafted together, and what it could mean to one day play alongside Andrew Basha in Calgary.
LISTEN: sportsnet.ca/960/flames-talk…
Jordan Staal is the first player to score in five straight games to start a Stanley Cup Final since Jean Beliveau in 1956. Maurice Richard (1951) and Cyclone Taylor (1918) are the only other players to do it.
Lightning Nikita Kucherov wins the Hart Trophy over Connor McDavid by 10 points
This is the closest Hart Trophy vote since 2001-02 when Jose Theodore tied Jarome Iginla on points
(Theodore had more 1st place votes)