Calgary Puck

The Flames probably deserved better in this one; a 4-2 St. Louis victory at the Saddledome in the Flames home opener.

The Flames carried the last half of the first period, pretty much all of the second and good chunks of the third but couldn’t convert on blue chip chances and were victimized by two seeing eye tips by St. Louis in the third period.

The Flames are now 1-2-0 on the season with the victory coming in the game where they were the least effective.

Keep the effort we saw this afternoon and they’ll win their share of games.

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A strange start to the season.

Last night the Oilers were clearly the better team but the Flames find three bounces to tie it up and win it in a shoot out. Tonight they play a much better game in all three zones, but get blown out 5-1 in Vancouver.

A close game through two periods, but the game changed on a dime when the Canucks scored a goal after hitting Kevin Bahl in the head with a puck and scoring on the rebound with Calgary players looking to their fallen comrade.

The Flames get a day off! And next up it’s the Blues on home ice on Saturday afternoon.

Season starts 1-1-0.

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I think if the two teams played that exact game ten more times the Oilers would likely win nine of them.

As it was the visitors erased a three goal deficit with two very fortunate bounces and a 50/50 high stick review to force overtime.

Calgary got goals from Matvei Gridin, Connor Zary and Blake Coleman, and then shoot out strikes from Morgan Frost and Nazem Kadri in a deep shoot out that went nine rounds.

The Flames have a very tough schedule to start the season, so banking two in erratic fashion is just the start they needed to keep in the race through a tough run of games.

Next up the Canucks tonight, with the Flames getting in late.

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I was torn.

At first I was almost relieved that the Flames were down 3-1 after two with the out of town scoreboard sealing their fate. Felt maybe it was best that they would have nuked themselves and couldn’t simply blame the dumb luck of never getting any help.

Then they scored three straight to go up three in the third changing that narrative before going to overtime and winning in a shoot out 5-4 on Tuesday night.

So in the end they can’t completely blame the Hockey Gods as they had to win the game in regulation.

The Flames got goals from Frost, Kadri, Backlund and Klapka, and then the shootout winner from Frost to put things away.

One meaningless game left on Thursday night in LA, a game that should feature the debut of Zayne Parekh (and Aydar Suniev).

Go win it … 96 points and missing the playoffs is a story.

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Ah ah ah ah Staying Alive!

A brutal five minutes of play off the hop almost cost them the hockey game, but their goaltender bailed them out and from there they studiously carved out a solid home ice victory against a team they should and needed to beat.

Calgary with the 5-2 victory with three third period goals.

The win keeps their slim playoff hopes alive for another 48 hours with a huge Tuesday looming with all three teams playing.

The season winds into game 81 with a chance at the playoffs.

Incredible journey.

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