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Flames with two wins in two games.

Flames with 12 goals in two games.

Would have to think there were not many that had that in the prediction column for the Calgary Flames to start off a season with little to no expectations. Yet here we are.

The Flames got up early, and held the lead for 50 some minutes on the strength of some solid first half goaltending by Dustin Wolf, and a retro four point night from Jonathan Huberdeau to beat the Flyers 6-3 on Saturday night.

Early on it looked like a Philly comeback was inevitable, but give them credit, the Flames were the better team in the last 30 minutes.

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Well that was something.

The Flames show a complete lack of discipline, coupled with some spotty calls from the officials to build the Canucks a 4-1 lead through 20 minutes before charging back to flip the script the rest of the way.

The Flames score three third period goals to take a 5-4 lead, lose the lead in the last 90 seconds and then win it in overtime on a huge individual play by Connor Zary.

Them Canucks may want to figure out that Demko injury sooner than later.

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Well that’s a wrap!

The Seattle Kraken win in Minnesota giving the Flames a chance to grab that 8th overall slot in the draft lottery, but the Sharks were not in a helping mode, as they completely collapsed making a Flames win all but inevitable.

Calgary turns aside the San Jose Sharks by a score of 5-1 with both Mackenzie Weegar and Blake Coleman hitting milestones, and Dustin Wolf coming with nine seconds of his first career shut out.

The Flames finish with 81 points, just a point shy of the new world .500 record.

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A mixture of a season long lack of finish coupled with a pretty porous defense led to a 4-1 loss in Vancouver despite a hard working effort by the Flames.

Calgary had 40 shots on goal and never gave up, but just don’t have the finishers up front or the defenders on the backend to play up and down hockey with good hockey teams.

The loss locks the Flames into either the 8th or 9th draft position; which will be solved, of course on Thursday night.

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Entertaining night for a team well out of it.

Nazem Kadri with three points, Andrei Kuzmenko with two more, goals from two rookies in Matt Coronato and Connor Zary and a win from Dustin Wolf in a crazy 6-5 win over the Coyotes on Sunday night.

Tank fans will be stressed with the Flames potentially falling to 9th overall in the draft, but honestly if you were told in November that the Flames would move Lindholm, Hanifin, Tanev and Zadorov for futures and finish in the bottom ten for draft picks I think you’d be happy.

Season winds down with a game in Vancouver on Tuesday and then a game back at home with San Jose on Thursday.

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