Preseason: Flames/Oilers Preview & Lineups

It’s been a long wait but Flames hockey is back today as the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers open up their respective preseasons. It has become an annual tradition that these two teams start their preseason with split-squad games against one another. Both puck drops will be at 7:00pm MT, and both will be streamed on the Flames website in the local area.

Matthew Tkachuk will not be dressed in either game as the team takes precautionary measures after leaving yesterday’s practice with minor hip issues.

Not really a whole lot more to say about tonight’s games, but here’s the lineup for the Flames in both cities:

Edmonton @ Calgary

Forwards

Johnny Gaudreau – Sean Monahan – Micheal Ferland

Kris Versteeg – Mikael Backlund – Michael Frolik

Andrew Mangiapane – Mark Jankowski – Troy Brouwer

Luke Gazdic – Dillon Dube – Garnet Hathaway

Defence

Mark Giordano – Dougie Hamilton

T.J. Brodie – Travis Hamonic

Juuso Valimaki – Oliver Kylington

Goalies

Mike Smith

Jon Gillies

Calgary @ Edmonton

Forwards

Emile Poirier – Sam Bennett – Spencer Foo

Tanner Glass – Freddie Hamilton – Joseph Cramarossa

Hunter Shinkaruk – Matt Stajan – Curtis Lazar

Ryan Lomberg – Marek Hrivik – Morgan Klimchuk

Defence

Brett Kulak – Michael Stone

Matt Bartkowski – Rasmus Andersson

Tyler Wotherspoon – Josh Healey

Goalie

Eddie Lack

David Rittich

Tyler Parsons

by Michael MacGillivray