This team is not good offensively any longer for some reason.
This team is not good defensively any longer for some reason.
If this was a playoff series against Ottawa, Calgary would be losing.
This team should be in the 'challenging for the cup' part of the cycle, but the "still in the rebuild" Sens are looking like the better team right now. They aren't the better team - at least they aren't on paper - but they sure have been playing like one, and the head-to-head results say they are right now.
At what point in the season do you make some sort of change? I think there has been enough rope given for a move - coach, roster, whatever. The Flames have officially played 41% of the season. Still time to get back in the race, but I am of the opinion that it is no longer with the same group that we saw play tonight.
Vancouver is only 2 points back of the Flames (if they close out tonight's game in which they are leading 3-0). Sure, the Flames have 2 games in hand on them, but who here is confident about that any longer? These were the 'easiest games' of the schedule so far, and the Flames not only lost 2 out of the three so far, but got blown-out doing so.
Time for some change. Just an embarrassment of a season thus far IMO, especially considering the Markstrom signing which was supposed to fix the biggest hole on what should have been a very competitive team.
It is past due for a change. 41% over.
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