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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
The Flames seem to have a knack most seasons to stumble out of the gate, questions arise, then they have to dig themselves out of a hole. Sadly, I'm kind of expecting the start this season to be the same...
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In 2014 the Flames started six of their first seven games on the road, and came away with a respectable 4-3 record in that span.
In 2015 the Flames started five of seven at home, and only had two wins to show for it—both earned in OT and the S/O.
In 2016 the Flames started four of their first six at home, and registered only one OT win.
This year the Flames have only two home dates in the first two weeks of the season with four games on the road. I think a big part of the problem for this team in the past several years is that they struggle with those first few games at the Dome for whatever reason, and it affects the rest of their play in the opening few weeks. The Flames are probably better poised to get a good start this year than they have been the past two seasons because they will not have a lot of games in Calgary at the outset.