Nashville Predators Power Play: 47.4%
Columbus Blue Jackets Power Play: 44.4%
Calgary Flames Power Play: 4.0%
Hilariously large difference. It's the beginning of the season, but it's amazing how much worse the Flames PP is compared to other teams. The Preds are capitalizing more almost 12 times more often than the Flames.
The PK stats aren't much better.
Both goalies have very low save percentages. The Flames have the most goals against goals against in the league. The Flames have the worst winning percentage in the league, good for a 30th place pace. The Flames also have the worst goal differential. Things can't get much worse.
All this while the team is completely healthy. I guess we can at least give some credit to the trainers, medics, and conditioning coaches for this.
As of now, the Flames have
the lowest playoff chances in the league at 29%. However this doesn't take anything except win/loss records into account.
But maybe the Flames just need to get their mojo going. If Johnny, Monny, Gio, Brodie, and Elliott return to a reasonable level of play, a turnaround can happen pretty quickly. Treliving can try to shake things up. Maybe the coaching staff can somehow energize the team. Or maybe one of the players can truly lead by example. It's still possible, in fact, I think it's likely to happen at some point. Just hopefully sooner than later. The Flames really might need a coaching change of some sort, just to give a spark.
Sorry. This post was all over the place.