Contest Announcement: Calgarypuck and Outlawsportstv.com

August 30th, 2010 | Posted in Calgarypuck News | By: D'Arcy McGrath

Hey Calgarypuck regulars, the crew from Outlawsportstv.com want to see your rant of the week! Unload your vast hockey knowledge on a topic of your choice, and if it stands out you just may be the winner of some solid hockey prizes.

With each contest/prize announcement we’ll start a new thread on the message board where Calgarypuck hockey fans can offer up their two cents on things in the hockey world that have managed to stick in their craw.
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Calgarypuck, the Media and Polling

July 16th, 2010 | Posted in Commentary | By: D'Arcy McGrath

Internet polling, results and how they fit in with they non-cyber world … topics that have always caused great debate on Calgarypuck.com

Rabid hockey fans that flock to an online source to hash out every minute detail of a hockey club… are they more in tune? better fans? Indicative of society (Calgary) as a whole? Or homers wearing red and gold goggles, so unable to see fault with their hockey club that they can’t help but bend towards the positive?

Recently Calgarypuck.com was afforded a great opportunity to hopefully come up with answers to some of these questions; or perhaps not.
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Flames Continue Retro Rework on Canada Day

July 1st, 2010 | Posted in Commentary | By: D'Arcy McGrath

It’s been an odd six days in Flames history, or better put … it’s been odd watching the Flames dabble in their own history for six days? Or is it … the Flames are history?

Any or all of those statements could be used to describe the club using three player acquisition methods to acquire five pieces of club history during the past week.
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BLOG: Media Turns On Flame’s Brass

April 13th, 2010 | Posted in CPuck Blog | By: D'Arcy McGrath

The media make up of a sports city is a blend of many types of yarn woven into a rich pattern, often with the result greater than the sum of it’s parts.

Ok that was way over the top, but you get the idea. Different Strokes to rule the world; that kind of thing.

Toronto has or had the Al Strachans and the Damian Cox, the Stephen Brunts and the Steve Simmons. Some intended to analyze others tried annihilate a Leaf team that often left their fans wanting more.
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Game Takes: Nucks Blast Flames

April 13th, 2010 | Posted in Game Takes | By: Darren Linn

So here we are awaiting game 82 of the long and arduous NHL season. The last several years this was generally the game where the coach would decide who to rest and who’s icetime would be handled appropriately as they prepared for the marathon that is the playoffs. Not this time and not this year. For a team that had very high expectations coming into the 2009-2010 season, this was a game to try and salvage some sort of pride in a group of guys that quite frankly, have been far from anything resembling a playoff team.
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