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The Brandon Wheat Kings got a late Christmas present on December 27th when the Calgary
Flames assigned all star left-winger Michael Ferland to the Western Hockey League club.
“It’s unexpected and very good news for our organization,” Wheat Kings general manager Kelly
McCrimmon said. “This is a process that was initiated through Mike’s agent. … Mike’s excited to
be back, which is important, and obviously with what he’s accomplished in the league already, we
expect he’d be a very good player.”
Selected by the Flames in the fifth round of the 2010 National Hockey League Entry Draft,
Ferland has played sparingly in his first season as a professional, seeing action in only seven
games with Calgary’s top farm team, the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Heat, plus three
more games with the ECHL’s Utah Grizzlies. An assist with the Grizzlies is the only point he’s
managed this season.
But Ferland is one of the most feared players in the WHL; a tough winger who also produced 47
goals and 96 points last season and was named to the Eastern Conference second all-star team.
“It’s great to be back here with the boys again, the coaching staff, and … I love playing here,” he
said. “I haven’t really been playing much. I just kinda want to get my groove back. I thought I played
a lot tonight. It’s probably the most I’ve played all year, and I’m looking forward to our next game.”
After making his Brandon debut last Friday, he scored the game winner in Sunday’s win over
the Rebels in Red Deer.
CALVERT GAINING CONFIDENCE IN THE MINORS
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When the Columbus Blue Jackets’ 2010-11 season became a lost cause, left winger Matt
Calvert was called up from Springfield and provided a ray of hope in the second half of the season.
When the 2011-12 season became a lost cause — right around Thanksgiving — Calvert
became part of a question. A parade of players was recalled from Springfield, but denizens of
Nationwide Arena were left to wonder: Where is Calvert?
“You see other guys packing their bags to go up, and you’re happy for them,” Calvert said.
“But there’s a part of you that’s wondering … why isn’t that me?One of the biggest parts of playing
hockey is confidence. If you don’t have it, you don’t have very much. And I admit: I was losing
confidence last season.”
There were several contributing factors. Calvert suffered a groin injury early in training camp,
sapping him of the quick-burst speed that is his calling card. But even after the groin healed, the
Blue Jackets didn’t believe he was playing that well in Springfield. Nor did he play well in two early
season call-ups to Columbus.
So he stayed in Springfield, watching Ryan Russell,
Alexandre Giroux, Dane Byers, Darryl Boyce and others pack
their bags. Calvert played in only 13 games with the Blue
Jackets, none after Nov. 19.
“I expected to be an 80-game player after the way (201011) ended,” Calvert said. “I got hurt in training camp, maybe
lost a step, and it took me a while to get it back. And when I
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bounced between the minors and the NHL, gave him a sense
of what Calvert was experiencing.
“Matty Calvert’s speed and pursuit and tenacity on the puck is what is going to separate him
from other guys,” Larsen said. “He creates scoring chances out of that, but if he loses that edge even
a little bit, he’s not the same player.”
Larsen believes some of that “speed and pursuit and tenacity” was lost after his 2010-11 callup to Columbus. Calvert had 11 goals and nine assists in 42 games, including a hat trick against
Phoenix on Feb. 25, one of the few nights all season where Nationwide Arena was electric.
Calvert’s nine goals after the All-Star Game tied Rick Nash for most on the team.
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The Blue Jackets stressed to Calvert that he stick
to the basics, that he grow his game within his skill set.
That means using his speed, being defensively sound
and being one of the best forecheckers in the league. As
winter turned to spring, the Blue Jackets told Calvert they
would not be recalling him to the NHL, that they wanted
him to finish strong in Springfield and get ready for 201213.
“The last 30 games (of last season) I just stopped
worrying about getting called up,” Calvert said. “I stopped
being frustrated because I wasn’t up there, and I started
playing better.”
There has been no threat of a call-up this season
because the NHL is 31/2 months deep into a lockout. But Calvert is one of many players excelling
for Springfield. He has eight goals, eight assists and a plus-12 rating in 27 games.
“Everybody has expectations for you, and I have some for myself,” Calvert said. “They were
not met last season. When you come out of junior (hockey), you expect everything to be easy. You
don’t realize how much you still have to learn. That’s what last season was for me. I think I’m a much
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“He set the bar way up here,”
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