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Stadium:
Pengrowth Saddledome
The Pengrowth Saddledome is the main indoor arena facility in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and is situated on the east end of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede grounds and Macleod Trail. It is also known simply as the Saddledome or even the 'Dome. The arena is home to the Calgary Flames of the NHL, the Calgary Roughnecks of the NLL and the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL.

Seating Chart:
Pengrowth Saddledome Seating Chart

Team History:
The Flames were the result of the NHL's first preemptive strike against the upstart World Hockey Association. In December 1971, the NHL hastily granted a team to Long Island — the New York Islanders — in order to keep the WHA's New York Raiders out of the brand new Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Needing another team to balance the schedule, the NHL awarded a team to an Atlanta-based group that owned the National Basketball Association's Atlanta Hawks, headed by prominent local real estate developer Tom Cousins. Cousins named the team the "Flames" after the fire resulting from the March to the Sea in the American Civil War by General William Tecumseh Sherman, in which Atlanta was nearly destroyed. The Flames were relatively successful early on. Under head coaches Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion, Fred Creighton and Al MacNeil, the Flames made the playoffs in six of eight seasons in Atlanta. In marked contrast, their expansion cousins, the Islanders, compiled two of the worst seasons in NHL history during their first two years in the league. This relative success would not translate in the playoffs, however, as the Flames won only two post season games during their time in Atlanta.

Season Preview:
There is a commonly held theory that the Calgary Flames, in spite of being unceremoniously dumped in the first round of the playoffs last spring, are Stanley Cup contenders by virtue of the team's acquisition of the skilled Alex Tanguay from Colorado. We do not hold to that theory. Tanguay scored 29 times last season and is a fine hockey player, but even if you added 35 goals to the Flames' 2005-06 total, it would still only put them in the middle of an offensive pack that is also getting better. The Flames were a freak of nature last season, finishing 27th in goals scored while winning the Northwest Division. The team, quite simply, does not have enough offensive juice to be a Cup contender in a conference where 10 of the NHL's best 15 teams reside and where most of the conference contenders have upgraded their firepower. And no disrespect to Daymond Langkow, but a team whose top center is under the 60-point plateau is a team that is lacking one of the crucial tenants of a champion: strength down the middle.

Official Site:
http://flames.nhl.com/