from Kristen Anderson of the Calgary Sun,

The drought may be over.

But the slump continues for the Calgary Flames after they dropped a 3-2 decision Tuesday to the visiting Colorado Avalanche. It was their fifth consecutive loss and fourth in regulation, on the heels of back-to-back shut-outs over the weekend against Arizona and Vegas.

To make matters worse, it was against the Avalanche — of COURSE it was against the Avalanche — which only poured more salt in a wound that has been open since the team’s springtime playoff exit when they lost in five games to the eighth-seeded upstart Avs after the Flames had claimed 107 points and 50 wins during the regular season....

Perhaps the signs are there, looking at the way the Flames out-shot the Avalanche 33-26 in the end and — at times — looked like they had some jump.

But the makeshift top line of Johnny Gaudreau, Mikael Backlund and Elias Lindholm were all minus-two and were held off the scoresheet. The team’s best players are still vastly underperforming (Monahan had an assist and was a plus-one) but their biggest problem remains obvious: playing from behind.

It was the seventh consecutive game in which the Flames have allowed the first goal while their record when trailing after two periods dropped to 3-10-2.

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