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Another defining moment for Flames?2

CALGARY — For Canada's neophyte NHL teams — which is to say any without the long and storied history of either the Montreal Canadiens or the Toronto Maple Leafs — Game 7s have a way of defining the face and future of the franchise. Take the Calgary Flames for example. 21/04/08 4:52 PM 2

Kiprusoff delivers with game on the line

CALGARY — It was hours before the start of his team's sixth game of the Stanley Cup playoffs and head coach Mike Keenan knew exactly what the Calgary Flames needed to extend their postseason experience. "Our goalie has to give us his best game," Keenan said, taking an accusatory jab at Miikka Kiprusoff, the guy who usually delivers outstanding performances as easily as he puts on his pads. 20/04/08 10:52 PM

Flames force deciding game30

CALGARY — Yes, that was Journey's Don't Stop Believing playing over the loudspeaker system, just minutes before the Calgary Flames took to the ice Sunday night against the San Jose Sharks with their playoff lives on the line. Hey, if it was good enough for the final episode of The Sopranos, it was good enough for the Flames, too. 20/04/08 10:31 PM 30

Flames stage stunning comback50

CALGARY — There was a moment, about five minutes into play, when the scoreboard clock at the Pengrowth Saddledome went completely blank. The scores were wiped out; the clock was reset at 20:00 and for a moment there, the Calgary Flames must have wondered: Was their awful start just a bad dream? Sadly, no. 14/04/08 1:41 AM 50

Sarich makes an impact2

CALGARY — For two days, they'd told themselves the same things — don't take too many penalties, don't fall behind early, don't give the San Jose Sharks more scoring chances than they need. Two days; the same warnings. Over and over. And so what happened Sunday night in Game 3 at the Pengrowth Saddledome? The Calgary Flames took to the ice like zombies from Night of the Living Dead. 14/04/08 1:03 AM 2

Sharks get even30

SAN JOSE — The statistics don't always tell the whole story, but this was one time when they actually did: In the second period of the second game of their Western Conference playoff series Thursday night, the San Jose Sharks outshot the Calgary Flames 27-3. No, that was not a typo. 11/04/08 1:29 AM 30

Montreal abuzz over Habs' chances14

MONTREAL — The commute for Montreal Canadiens head coach Guy Carbonneau from his west-end home to the Bell Centre takes 45 minutes. Along the way, he encounters plenty of well-wishers. "I get honked at 150 times," he said on the eve of his team's first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins. To say the city of Montreal adores its Canadiens and has ratcheted that affection to a new level this season would be to state the obvious. 09/04/08 9:47 PM 14

Flames make the cut

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The subject was haircuts and more specifically, Jarome Iginla's new 'do. "A 'frohawk," is how Iginla described the look which, as advertised, combines the best (or worst) elements of an afro and a Mohawk into one odd head of hair. Nor was Iginla the only Calgary Flames player sporting a strange set of locks for Tuesday's playoff opener against the San Jose Sharks. 09/04/08 8:05 PM

Canucks face uphill challenge2

VANCOUVER — When Vancouver Canucks general manager Dave Nonis says missing the NHL playoffs is never an acceptable result in this marketplace, he is in lockstep with the fan base and ensures the lofty expectations that greeted the 2007-08 season will survive into next fall. 08/04/08 9:47 PM 2

Hair we go, it's playoff time7

Welcome to the fourth season. There are actually five in hockey, by a measure once offered up by no less than Wayne Gretzky. There is the exhibition season, which means nothing. There is the regular season, which runs quietly until the trade deadline. Then comes the stretch season, which ended rather dramatically last weekend. Now begins the playoff season, leading up to the Stanley Cup final, which Gretzky always considered a separate season. As season No. 08/04/08 8:46 PM 7

Fletcher sets the agenda6

Cliff Fletcher made two promises yesterday as the Toronto Maple Leafs put the wreckage of the 2007-08 NHL season behind them: The team will get better, and there will be a new man in charge when the puck is dropped next fall. As for details, well, as Fletcher said a rancher told him in the 1980s, when Fletcher was trying to turn the Calgary Flames into a match for the Edmonton Oilers, "the corral is full of horses, but you can only bring one into the barn at a time. 07/04/08 7:10 PM 6

The stage is set39

So here is how it shapes up for Canada's three playoff contenders, now that the NHL regular season is finally over: The Montreal Canadiens emerged from the Eastern Conference pack on the final weekend of the season, earning their first conference title in 19 years and the right to play their perennial punching bag, the Boston Bruins, in the opening playoff round. See the 06/04/08 10:52 PM 39

Vancouver veterans face uncertain future7

VANCOUVER — The day after Trevor Linden Night, there was a decidedly different mood at General Motors Place. No longer could a lopsided loss, a stretch-run collapse and an underachieving season be swept aside by the mutual affection of Linden and Vancouver hockey fans, who stole the show Saturday with a love-in worthy of goose bumps and tears. 06/04/08 9:59 PM 7

Linden and Naslund hint at retirement25

VANCOUVER — Going in, it was believed to be Trevor Linden's last game ever, and Markus Naslund's last game as a Vancouver Canuck. But after the fawning tributes to Linden, the former captain and face of the franchise who made no definitive announcement but was celebrated as though this was the end, the current captain dropped a bombshell. 06/04/08 1:45 AM 25

Wild clinch division title1

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Marian Gaborik added to his career-high goals total, now 42, on a defining night for a career that began 7 1/2 years ago — the first time the Minnesota Wild took the ice. Gaborik scored twice in the third period to help the Wild beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Thursday night for their first Northwest Division title. 04/04/08 1:07 AM 1