Viva Las Vegas.
As the NHL descends on Sin City and commissioner Gary Bettman does his best to pretend an expansion team landing there isn’t as much of a sure thing as free drinks at the blackjack table, up next is awards night.
A quartet of Calgary Flames are up for honours — yeah, it’s been a while since that happened — and a couple of them are the front-runners during Wednesday’s soiree.
The last time a Flames player won a major regular award based on voting by the media or general managers was 2005-06 when Miikka Kiprusoff claimed the Vezina Trophy.