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The moral victories are mattering less and less every night.

The Flames show up. They carry the play for the majority of most games. They find a way to lose.

Today in Nashville the Flames spotted the Predators a 3-0 lead in the first period, pulled their starter, and then battled back in the third period to make it interesting before falling 4-2 as a final.

The Flames got goals from Jonathan Huberdeau and Joel Farabee and excellent relief goaltending from Devin Cooley in the second and third periods.

Next up for the Flames their final game on the trip in Philly tomorrow at 5pm MST.

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Another solid effort.

Another bitter disappointment.

The Flames led 2-1 after one, 2-1 after two, but dropped the game in a shoot out to only find one point in game two of their four game road trip; tonight a 4-3 shoot out loss to the Ottawa Senators.

The setback moves the Flames to 0-1-1 to star the trip.

Next up the Flames travel to Nashville for an afternoon game on Saturday before going back East (odd) to play the Flyers on Sunday night.

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A solid road game.

A familiar result.

No points.

The Flames had their one game win streak snapped with a 4-3 loss in Toronto on Tuesday night. The team was very effective five on five, but were burned by taking too many penalties, and having way too many turnovers in a game that felt like one that got away.

Sam Honzek with his first NHL goal, Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee with the goals on the night.

Next up the Senators on Thursday night.

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The Flames scoring five goals?

You just knew when the team was limping through that everything going wrong period of their early season that things would even out, and even out they did tonight as the Flames scored five but probably deserved more like three on the night all told.

But they all count, and count they did with a 5-1 Calgary win over the New York Rangers.

Blake Coleman with two goals, and Dustin Wolf with a star performance in net.

The Flames eight game losing streak is finally over.

Next up a four game road trip through the East that starts Tuesday night in Toronto.

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For the third straight game … and loss … the Flames actually put forward an above average hockey game.

They scored three goals! That doesn’t happen.

But they surrendered four and an empty netter in a 5-3 Winnipeg Jets victory on Friday night with the entire hemisphere watching the World Series.

Calgary got out to an early lead, had a terrible first half of the second period (where they lost the game), but then battled to keep in it right until the end.

The loss is the team’s 7th straight however (one point to show) and moves their record to 1-7-1 on the season good for three points. Should it take 96 points to secure a playoff spot this year the Flames will now have to play on a 104 point pace (.637) the rest of the way.

Next up the Rangers at the Dome on Sunday night.

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