Fried Cammalleri

The Calgary Flames

Wow! Calgary was BUSY this offseason.

The biggest move of Calgary's offseason, and the most fantasy relevant, was the trading of draft picks for my boy, and yours, Michael Cammalleri. Cammalleri is a great, young, left wing. Unlike Alex Tanguay, Cammalleri has a scoring touch, having netted 34 goals in 2006-2007. His 2007-2008 was marred by injury but in 63 games he still potted an impressive 47 points. About all Cammalleri won't do for you is get PIM. On a line with Iginla I would give the 26 year old Cammalleri and outside shot at 80 points, with about 30 of those coming on the powerplay. Iginla should ensure that he is a positive in the +/- column as well. This is the most talented player Iginla has been on the same line with in some time. He shouldn't be a sleeper in any league, grab him early.

The other big addition was Big Bert, Todd Bertuzzi. Let's get this out the way, Bertuzzi's best days are behind him. He was signed by Calgary to provide some secondary scoring, likely on a line with Craig Conroy and... um... Moss... Roy... Lundmark? In a similar role on a similarly good team last year Bert managed 40 points and 97 PIM (because thats the important number if you're thinking about drafting him) in 68 games. He's an injury risk, and a nutcase risk, and will probably make you nervous in the way that driving on a one lane road on the side of a mountain makes me nervous, but if you need those PIM and you think your production from other positions is looking good he's not a bad player to have around. don't expect much more then 40-50 points from Todd the Terrible though.

The Flames then populated the team with roll players. Of particular interest amongst those is Jamie Lundmark. I know. He sucks. But I would have said the same thing about Huselius before he came to Calgary. Calgary has a knack for rehabilitating prospects and Lundmark is a former 9th overall pick. I'm not saying draft him, I'm just saying I'm intrigued by the signing.