A lot of talk about this failed season centers around a three game road trip to the city of Angels. On this trip the Flame’s GM Jay Feaster talked to three of his core players about the idea of moving after they came up empty in all three attempts.

But to me the season died earlier than that, on their last voyage into Denver when they blew multiple leads and let the young soon to struggle Avalanche come all the way back and beat them in over time.

Fast forward to tonight and you have the league’s two worst teams each playing back up goaltenders and battling both for a better draft pick and pride.

Tonight the pride belongs to the Flames and Joey McDonald as the visitors walk away with a 3-1 win.

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Back to back nights with a border crossing are tough on the Flames at the best of time, and almost suicidal when you take the team’s best forward and defenseman out of the mix.

Yet that’s exactly what the Flames faced when they moved their torn down road show into Vancouver on Saturday night to take on the deadline boosted Vancouver Canucks.

The results were as expected even if the play was anything but in a 5-2 setback to the team with many jerseys.

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13-14-7

33 points – 13th in the West

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30 points – 14th in the West

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The Jarome Iginla era has ended in Calgary. Yeah, you read that right.

As much as we all expected a deal to come and knew it was absolutely necessary for the franchuse to move on, it doesn’t make seeing those words sting any less.  And oh yeah, the Flames also had a game to play tonight against the Avalanche. But lets be honest…was that on anyone’s mind? (As of writing this, it sounds like Iginla is headed to Pittsburgh…stay tuned)

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The Flames just aren’t having a whole lot of fun. You can tell it in the jump on the ice. You can tell it with the looks of the faces on the bench.

Losing sucks. So too does a death march surrounding your captain and franchise face as the trade deadline winds its way to within a week on the calendar.

The Flames were very much the distracted team again tonight, working hard but not working with focus in dropping a 2-0 contest to the Blackhawks.

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