10-20-2025, 06:03 AM
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Winnipeg Jets at Calgary Flames 7:30pm TV: SNF, TSN3 - RADIO SN960
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News Roundup
The Flames are off to an all-time bad start
Things are not going according to plan for the Calgary Flames.
A year ago, the Flames entered the 2024-25 season after a chaotic 2023-24 curious about their team and willing to do nothing and see what the team was capable of. The answer? Turns out they were capable of quite a lot, and rode hot goaltending and a really tenacious checking style to within the regulation wins tiebreaker of a playoff spot.
But a virtually identical Flames team is off to a horrid start to the 2025-26 season
Flames takeaways: Calgary stuck in basement after blowout loss in Vegas
Bottom of the league in goals scored and goal differential, the Calgary Flames are now the NHL’s last-place team.
They can’t score, they can’t defend.
There’s no sugar-coating where this beleaguered bunch sits a mere half-dozen games into the season, losing five in a row to sit 1-5.
Is Dustin Wolf in a sophomore slump?
Dustin Wolf’s first full season with the Calgary Flames was one to remember, posting a 29-16-8 record with a .910 save percentage (SV%) and 2.64 goals against average (GAA) in 53 games. He finished as a runner-up for the Calder Trophy and earning a seven-year contract extension that will pay him $7.5 million a year.
But through four games in 2025-26, Wolf has struggled, going 1-3-0 with an .873 SV% and 3.77 GAA
Flames mailbag: Is Connor Zary on the path to being Calgary's next Sam Bennett?
It was clear in the off-season that the team is somewhat ambivalent about Connor Zary. They moved to lock up guys like Dustin Wolf, Kevin Bahl and Matt Coronato to long-term deals, but negotiated Zary down to a bridge deal just before training camp.
Analyst rips Flames forward: ‘That guy doesn’t hate to lose’
Sharangovich was a hot topic on Saturday’s post-game show on Hockey Night in Canada, and that’s not a good thing for the Calgary Flames forward.
After the Flames were throttled 6-1 by the Vegas Golden Knights, their fifth consecutive loss, tell-it-like-it-is analyst Kevin Bieksa hammered Sharangovich with a brutally honest assessment
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10-20-2025, 06:14 AM
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MOD EDIT: Removed broken image link.
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10-20-2025, 06:39 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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Let's see...
Watch a floundering last place Flames club who has shown very little heart or effort so far play an early regular season game against a top team in the league.
OR...
Watch a plucky and lovable Blue Jays club play in the ALCS game 7 that would send the winner to the World Series.
Boy, that's a real Sophie's Choice there....
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10-20-2025, 07:03 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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I am going to give as much effort watching the Flames as they have in their games ... which means, I may or may not show up, or will check the score once a period which is about as often as they show up each period.
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10-20-2025, 07:16 AM
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Go Flames go!
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10-20-2025, 07:30 AM
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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Great night for sports really. Flames game, MNF double header, Jays game 7. Awesome.
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10-20-2025, 07:33 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Cape Breton Island
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Hurray Jets!
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10-20-2025, 07:49 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: NC
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Love you Flames, but the main focus will be the Jays tonight.
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10-20-2025, 07:58 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Vancouver
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Find the answers in the dressing room, Go Flames!
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10-20-2025, 08:16 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
Let's see...
Watch a floundering last place Flames club who has shown very little heart or effort so far play an early regular season game against a top team in the league.
OR...
Watch a plucky and lovable Blue Jays club play in the ALCS game 7 that would send the winner to the World Series.
Boy, that's a real Sophie's Choice there....
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Normally I would say baseball sucks and it's not a real sport.... but after watching Ohtani.. holy crap. It was the 1st baseball game I have watched in full in the past 10 years.
Goooo Dodgers?!!!?? lol
Also you guys need to make some money for watching all this suffering. Just bet the Flames to lose by multiple goals haha
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10-20-2025, 08:24 AM
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Well, if there is a night to lose, it is this one since most eyes will be glued to the Jays. At any rate, I don't expect the Flames to put up much of a fight, but it will be interesting to see what their response will be tonight.
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10-20-2025, 08:58 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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The Flames will find their defensive mojo ... the won't be this bad all that long.
But the points are already gone, and finding their system won't help their goal scoring ... so the struggle will always be there anyway.
Guessing they win a few to correct the early "everything going wrong" trend, and then settle into a pace that gets them pick #7 for lottery odds.
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10-20-2025, 09:05 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Nothing makes you feel older than seeing players you cheered for hit 60. And realizing you are older then them.
Happy Birthday German!
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10-20-2025, 09:08 AM
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Go Flames BlueJays Go
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10-20-2025, 09:12 AM
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GFG! This funk can’t last forever!
Sharky hat trick tonight, so that I can shut up about how bad he is.
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10-20-2025, 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
GFG! This funk can’t last forever!
Sharky hat trick tonight, so that I can shut up about how bad he is.
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1 hour laturr....
he was a healthy scratch. hahahah
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10-20-2025, 09:15 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GioforPM
Nothing makes you feel older than seeing players you cheered for hit 60. And realizing you are older then them.
Happy Birthday German!
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And I know you're such an old f*** that you know exactly what movie this is from.
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10-20-2025, 09:20 AM
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If the Flames lose tonight? Step back, this is getting really exciting. I'll be overjoyed x2, nearing maximum McKenna point momentum!
If the Flames win? I'll be mildly happy for the Kadri and the krew...but less so, because the young footprint on the roster is less than what I'd like to see it be at this stage of the team's development. I just don't see a lot on the roster that is part of the next, actually meaningful core.
Either way, it's a great day for Flames hockey!
Friedman cautions "the Flames do not like to throw in the towel"...yikes. This team needs to emphatically state where they are. The bottom. Friedman continues that the best thing they can do? Friedman says it will take someone in the organization to step up and say "people aren't going to like this, but this is what we need to do" and that if this current group can't dig themselves out them, they have to tackle each other to prevent from them calling central registry.
"If I look at the Flames, you know what they need? If they can get McKenna, or a high skilled player at the top of the draft...that's what they need" and continues to say that's who sells tickets in new arenas.
Friedman seems to really hammer that the Flames do not want to be that bad...They talk about DuPont, and Friedman says there's too much scar tissue that they won't want to be uncompetitive.
My goodness, if that's what Friedman has heard...that's damning.
Last edited by ComixZone; 10-20-2025 at 09:27 AM.
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10-20-2025, 09:23 AM
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: ATCO Field, Section 201
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I'll be going to the Dome tonight, it's good for the economy.
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10-20-2025, 09:32 AM
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broke the first rule
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Flames lose 6-7
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