Calgary Puck

With the Flames essentially punting on the trade deadline by adding a little without giving up anything by way of futures it was fun to turn back to the team with a “what the heck, lets see where this goes!” attitude.

With a Jets win over Edmonton and the Flames falling flat against Minnesota it feels like that battle might already be over as the numbers get considerably worse for the Flames with just 19 games to go.

That’s five straight losses by the Flames, and a whole lot of trouble.

Slotted to draft 13th overall though!

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Heading out on the road with the season on the line a week and a half ago the Flames had an “easy” game against the Coyotes, and then four tough games heading up to the trade deadline with Vegas, Colorado, Boston and Toronto. They likely needed six points to make themselves buyers at the deadline.

They got two.

Tonight wasn’t the Boston game, they hung in there but the right team won as the Leafs edged the Flames 2-1 on Thursday night.

Tomorrow at 1pm Calgary time the deadline closes, and it will be interesting to see what, if anything, the Flames do.

They likely needed 30 points in the final 21 games. They now need 30 points in the final 20.

You do the math … unlikely.

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Start the car!

There is stealing games, and then there’s Linus Ullmark’s play tonight in Calgary. He absolutely was the story … the whole story in a 4-3 overtime win for the Boston Bruins in a game where they were out shot 57-20.

The Flames were money for hanging in after Dan Vladar was pulled giving up two goals on five shots in the first period.

The just kept coming and coming, finally breaking through in the third and taking the lead before the Bruins tied it up late, and then won it overtime.

With an unfriendly night on the out of town scoreboard could that be it on the decision point?

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Is the writing on the wall?

All the teams around them seem to keep winning, the Flames keep this one step forward one step back pattern that isn’t gaining ground on any of the combatants.

Tonight in Denver the Flames give up a 2-0 lead on the Avalanche first two shots on the night and never recovered despite getting a boat load of chances and driving the play for most of the night.

With 22 games to go, and a four goal gap against three teams it just seems pretty unlikely.

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That feels like a painful loss of a point, doesn’t it?

The Flames had leads of 2-0 and 3-1 heading into the third period, but sit on the lead and let their hosts back into it before losing in overtime on what looked like a bad change from Mikael Backlund.

The trip is fine on it’s own … win in Arizona, point in Vegas … all good. But the team needs points to get back into the mix, and tonight they gave away a key one.

Will need at least a point in Denver on Saturday night now in my estimation.

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