Recent Podcast Episodes

Posted on May 10, 2013 (Season 1)

In part one of our two part 2013 Entry Draft series, we look at the Flames options for the sixth overall pick this year, breaking down the stats and helping you get to know the players who are expected to go around the sixth spot, as well as talking about some other scenarios. Next week, we’ll be discussing the other two picks the Flames have in the first round.

Posted on May 4, 2013 (Season 1)

The 2013 NHL regular season is over. These past five months have been full of highs and lows for Flames fans – this season left a lot to be desired, but did have some positives to it as well. This week we look back at the season that was and break down some of the moves and happenings that have lead the Flames to their spot as the bottom 6 team in the standings.

Posted on April 27, 2013 (Season 1)

Lucas compares himself to a well respected hockey broadcaster, and picks a fight with another. We discuss Mark Cundari’s Flames debut and his future with the club and Lucas proposes that next year the team needs a new look – players growing mullets and wearing fake mustaches. What will the future look like for the Flames in goal in a post-Kipper era?

Posted on April 19, 2013 (Season 1)

This week we boast a little bit about the Flames big win over the Oilers, what the Oilers have done wrong in their re-build and what the Flames can learn from it. Lucas brings up the Flames need to get tougher, and wonders which of the Flames prospects could fit that role, and we discuss which prospects are Restricted Free Agents this summer, and who we’d resign and who we’d let go.

Posted on April 13, 2013 (Season 1)

This week Dan is out, but Lucas and Matt discuss the history of the “Fireside Chat” name, how the prospects the Flames have brought up and how they’re looking so far, the Flames lack of a defensive system, how the veterans like Alex Tanguay who are left on the Flames roster are doing since the departure of Jarome Iginla.

Posted on April 5, 2013 (Season 1)

On this week’s episode the guys discuss the Flames big deals from the last week – Jarome Iginla and Jay Bouwmeester leaving town, and how the assets that are coming back help kickstart the “rebuild”. With Kipper being the only star player left in a Flames jersey, we talk about how his rumoured retirement next year would affect the team and that number 34 needs to be retired by the team, and not “honoured”.

Posted on March 29, 2013 (Season 1)

Are Flames fans finally starting to lose their passion for the team? The guys would rather discuss ATB commercials and the NHL 94 and 97 video games than talk about the Flames this week. How does the pending Jarome Iginla trade compare to the Theo Fleury trade – both in magnitude and return? With Jay Feaster getting criticism from fans we debate how well Feaster has done during his tenure as GM.

Posted on March 23, 2013 (Season 1)

The three man panel is back together for this episode, where Lucas provides some interesting stats about past “cinderella teams” and why the Flames don’t have the make up this year to make the playoffs. We discuss what the Flames have to do to rebuild but avoid the fate of other teams who’ve rebuilt recently like the Oilers, Blue Jackets, and Islanders, and other Flames topics.

Join us for another Fireside Chat!

Posted on March 14, 2013 (Season 1)

It has been said for years that the “cupboards are bare in Calgary” – the Flames don’t have many prospects in their organization that have the potential to become NHL players. With the state the Flames are in, they need prospects who can step into the NHL in the next few years. Is it still true the cupboards are bare? This week we look at the young players in the Flames organization and who could be future NHL players and who won’t, as well as looking ahead to the NHL Entry Draft and the players available.

Posted on March 9, 2013 (Season 1)

This week the guys discuss potential trade deadline moves, should the Flames “blow it up” and start the rebuild process now? We play armchair GM and decice who would we move at the trade deadline, and who would we keep? Lucas tries to sell candy and he tells us more about his creepy dreams about Darren Dreger. With Joey MacDonald finally having his Flames mask, we think back to our favourite all-time Flames goalie masks.