Hello, hockey fans!!!!!
And so it begins - 82 games of regular-season Flames hockey! After a summer of change, the boys in red look to return to glory. Sit down, buckle up and hold on, because we're going on a ride!
lineups, courtesy of
www.dailyfaceoff.com (subject to change)
FLAMES
Gaudreau - Monahan - Lindholm
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Dube - Ryan - Neal
Bennett - Jankowski - Czarnik
Giordano - Brodie
Hanifin - Hamonic
Valimaki - Stone
Smith
CANUCKS
Baertschi - Horvat - Boeser
Goldobin - Pettersson - Eriksson
Motte - Sutter - Virtanen
Schaller - Beagle - Granlund
Edler - Tanev
Del Zotto - Stecher
Pouliot - Gudbranson
Markstrom
...and of course, nobody has been looking forward to tonight more than Our Hero. He's joined the Flames on the trip to the coast, and is looking to get the festivities started:
Go Flames