The whole is greater than the sum of the parts for these Flames and they're showing this season how even when players themselves aren't moping around and making it visibily obvious their motivations are to get the hell out of Calgary and the Flames, teammates know since teammates talk to each other and it leads to a dark cloud over the group until those elements are gone.
Wolf is looking like he might be the real deal. I had serious questions last season based on how he looked in the net and his results, but this year, he's continuing to look confident (he always has been confident with belief in himself) yet showing solid results.
One surprising thing for me this year is that even when the Flames aren't playing well (not good last night 5 on 5, terrible PP), they're finding different ways to contribute positively to the game even if it's building some momentum during a 20 second shift and as a result of these smaller things happening, they end up finding different ways to win games they shouldn't. This rarely happened with past versions of the Flames.
It's funny how in all of these ATL reports, opposition fans sound so much like us here when things aren't going well.
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