Calgary Flames: Set Fire to Ice | A Fantasy Draft Story

[pittsburgher86]

This will be a story of the Calgary Flames. I did a fantasy draft and started with the 7 overall pick and picked Logan Couture. The team will be built around him. Here is what the team looks like:

Calgary Flames Team Roster
#	CENTERS	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE
17	Aleksander Barkov	18	6'2"	205	Left	Finland
39	Logan Couture	24	6'1"	200	Left	Canada
19	Cody Hodgson	23	6'0"	192	Right	Canada
20	Alexander Killorn	24	6'1"	202	Left	Canada
21	Louis LeBlanc	22	6'0"	190	Right	Canada
24	Nathan MacKinnon	18	5'11"	179	Right	Canada
#	LEFT WINGS	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE
14	Nathan Gerbe	26	5'7"	178	Left	United States of America
90	Ryan O'Reilly	22	6'0"	200	Left	Canada
16	Magnus Paajarvi	22	6'3"	208	Left	Sweden
26	Eric Wellwood	26	5'11"	179	Left	Canada
12	Wojtek Wolski	27	6'3"	215	Left	Canada
#	RIGHT WINGS	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE
28	Brett Connolly	21	6'2"	181	Right	Canada
10	Zack Kassian	22	6'3"	215	Right	Canada
#	DEFENSE	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE
25	Jordie Benn	26	6'0"	205	Left	Canada
3	Seth Jones	19	6'3"	200	Right	United States of America
47	Torey Krug	22	5'9"	180	Left	United States of America
8	Nick Leddy	22	5'11"	191	Left	United States of America
29	Johnny Oduya	32	6'0"	190	Left	Sweden
5	Justin Schultz	23	6'2"	188	Right	Canada
22	Kevin Shattenkirk	24	5'11"	208	Right	United States of America
#	GOALIES	AGE	HT	WT	SHOT	BIRTH PLACE
35	Justin Peters	27	6'1"	210	Left	Canada
34	James Reimer	25	6'2"	207	Left	Canada

I like young teams with room to grow. It's going to be a fun year. The lines look like this:

Calgary Flames Depth Chart - 2013-14
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
LW	Ryan O'Reilly	Wojtek Wolski	Magnus Maajarvi	Nathan Gerbe
C	Logan Couture	Cody Hodgson	Aleksander Barkov	Alexander Killorn
RW	Zack Kassian	Nathan MacKinnon	Brett Connolly	Eric Wellwood
D #1	Seth Jones	Nick Leddy	Jordie Benn
D #2	Kevin Shattenkirk	Justin Schultz	Johnny Oduya
G	James Reimer	Justin Peters

The powerplay units are unique and should be fun too:

Hodgson | MacKinnon | Wolski
Shultz | Couture
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Kassian | Barkov | O'Reilly
Shattenkirk | Leddy

Should be a fun season! First game results should be posted soon.

[Tazer19]

Good luck with the Flames!

[pittsburgher86]

Calgary Falls in Washington, Seth Jones Records First Career Point

--Washington
"It was a hard fought game. Our guys battled out there," said head coach and team GM Levi Anderson. "We made a couple bad mistakes; that comes with the territory of being a young team, though. We will get better."

For a team that got beat Anderson was in good spirits. He talked highly of the efforts of captains Logan Couture and Ryan O'Reilly. O'Reilly scored two of the Flames goals, both set up by Couture. Couture had scored the other goal. Rookie defenseman Seth Jones assisted one of O'Reilly goals, recording his first career point.

Jones' fellow rookies did not fair so well, however. Highly touted center/winger Nathan MacKinnon struggled giving the puck up multiple times. Center Aleksander Barkov played similarly to MacKinnon. One of his giveaways set up Little's second goal.

All this really means is to remember Levi Anderson's press conference: this is a young team, they'll make mistakes. They're also very talented young players and their future is bright.

Calgary Flames at Washington Capitals
Sep 4, 2013 1 2 3 F CGY (0-1) 1 1 1 3 WAS (2-0) 1 1 2 4 Three Stars Bryan Little 2 Goals, 1 Assist Logan Couture 1 Goal, 2 Assists Ryan O'Reilly 2 Goals	Team Stats Comparison CGY WAS Shots on Goal 24 24 Hits 19 10 Faceoffs Won-Lost 7-11 11-7 Penalty Minutes 0 0 Power Plays Converted 0 0 Power Play Opportunities 0 0 Time on Attack 4:12 4:59
Scoring Summary FIRST PERIOD CGY 3:34 R. O'Reilly (1), (L. Couture, K. Shattenkirk) WAS 19:16 B. Little (1), (T. Toffoli) SECOND PERIOD WAS 5:50 W. Simmonds (1), (B. Bennett, M. Irwin) CGY 19:34 L. Couture (1), (Z. Kassian, J. Schultz) THIRD PERIOD WAS 2:43 B. Little (2), (Unassisted) CGY 4:27 R. O'Reilly (2), (L. Couture, S. Jones) WAS 7:08 S. Gagner (1), (B. Little)

[pittsburgher86]

Calgary Loses Second Game Of Season

--Columbus
It wasn't a fun game to watch. Goalie James Reimer struggled, allowing 6 goals. Four of which were on rebounds off of his pads. As Reimer put it, "I have to play better. There is no way I should have given up all those rebound type goals. I have to do a better job of corralling those."

Defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk doesn't put the blame on Reimer, however. "We [the defenseman] have to do a better job of positioning to sweep some of those out of the way. I know Reimer is going to take the blame, but it's on us too. Oduya and I are the leaders of the defensemen here and we've got take some responsibility in teaching Seth [Jones] and those guys. We all have to play more responsible out there or games like this will happen."

Coach Anderson echoed much of what Reimer and Shattenkirk had to say. He talked about positioning and playing responsible when it came to the defense. Added that some of the offensive guys have to come down and help out as well. As for Reimer, Anderson talked about it being a learning process, "He was playing on back to back days and that's never easy. Maybe I shouldn't have done that. Just like the players I am a young coach. This is learning process for me too. It could've been he was feeling tired or sluggish. I haven't gotten to talk to James yet so when we do it will be a learning process for everyone involved and we're going to figure it all out."

Logan Couture notched two more goals taking his total up to three and bringing his point total to five in just two games.

Calgary Flames at Columbus Blue Jackets
Sep 5, 2013 1 2 3 F CGY (0-2) 1 1 0 2 CBJ (1-0) 3 1 2 6 Three Stars Claude Giroux 1 Goal, 2 Assists Brandon Yip 2 Goals Marcus Johansson 2 Goals	Team Stats Comparison CGY CBJ Shots on Goal 22 23 Hits 25 10 Faceoffs Won-Lost 13-12 12-13 Penalty Minutes 2:00 2:00 Power Plays Converted 0 1 Power Play Opportunities 1 1 Time on Attack 6:26 3:32
Scoring Summary FIRST PERIOD CBJ 5:28 B. Yip (1), (J. Spurgeon, R. Wilson) CBJ 9:41 C. Giroux (1), (J. Carlson, B. Marchand) CGY 11:50 L. Couture (2), (Z. Kassian, J. Reimer) CBJ 19:55 B. Yip (2), (J. Carlson, D. Brunner) SECOND PERIOD CBJ 3:20 M. Johansson (1), (C. Giroux, T. Barrie) CGY 18:52 L. Couture (3), (N. Leddy, K. Shattenkirk) THIRD PERIOD CBJ 3:14 M. Johansson (2), (T. Barrie, C. Giroux) CBJ 14:21 M. Foligno (1), (K. Clifford, D. Hamilton)

[pittsburgher86]

Calgary Records First Point, Loses in Shootout

--Calgary

The Calgary Flames lost in a disappointing fashion in yesterday's game to the Vancouver Canucks. After going down 2-0 in the first period the Flames battled back with goals from Cody Hodgson and Eric Wellwood. They overcame many of the penalties they took killing four of five. It looked like they might get their first win but to no avail. Canucks winger Pascal Dupuis ended up scoring the clinching goal in the shootout.

"Losing in a shootout is always tough," started coach Anderson, "honestly, it is just a terrible feeling. We get a point from it so thats good I guess. A consolation prize for forcing overtime, if thats how people would like to look at it. It stinks to lose the way we did. We faced a lot of adversity with those penalties and to kill them way we did it would have been great to get that win. We'll move on, however, and look to our next game."

When asked about the teams performance as whole he seemed happy even with the loss, "It's early, only three games in now. This isn't how we wanted to start, obviously, but this was our best game defensively and for James [Reimer]. We took a couple silly penalties and we'll work on that. I think this game was a step in the right direction for the team and we can use it as stepping stone. We have a couple days to prepare for Montreal and game film from today will be a good tool to teach the players about themselves."

Rookie Nathan MacKinnon showed off some good moves in the shootout with a an awesome backhand-forehand-backhand goal. He said it felt great to show off some moves, though it stunk it didn't actually count for his first goal. He also added that he felt terrible about the loss and it'd be a tough one to get over saying, "When Wellwood scored that shorty I thought we were going to pull out. Then I scored my shootout goal and thought we had for sure. It's a sour feeling for sure."

The team plays their next game against the Montreal Canadiens on September 9.

Vancouver Canucks at Calgary Flames
Sep 6, 2013 1 2 3 SO F VAN (2-1-0) 2 0 0 3 3 CGY (0-2-1) 0 1 1 2 2 Three Stars James Reimer 1.85 GAA, .926 SV%, 27 SA Jaroslav Halak 1.85 GAA, .929 SV%, 28 SA Eric Wellwood 1 Goal	Team Stats Comparison VAN CGY Shots on Goal 27 28 Hits 14 29 Faceoffs Won-Lost 13-11 11-13 Penalty Minutes 0:00 12:00 Power Plays Converted 1 0 Power Play Opportunities 5 0 Time on Attack 6:54 5:52
Scoring Summary FIRST PERIOD VAN 10:17 J. Zucker (1), (J. Garrison, D. King) VAN 16:25 B. Seabrook (1), (C. Smith) SECOND PERIOD CGY 12:36 C. Hodgson (1), (B. Connolly) THIRD PERIOD CGY 16:25 E. Wellwood (1), (J. Oduya, R. O'Reilly) SHOOTOUT VAN P. Kessel CGY N. MacKinnon VAN D. Perron CGY W. Wolski VAN P. Dupuis