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Questions Facing The Calgary Flames

10/24/2016 at 12:43pm EDT

from Wes Gilbertson at the National Post,

Can the Flames snap out of this?

You might feel like you stumbled into a time-machine or somehow drifted back to last fall. The Flames are handing out Grade A scoring opportunities like Halloween treats. Again.

As a result, they rank among the NHL’s statistical cellar-dwellers in both goals against (4.33 per game) and team save percentage (.856). Again.

The special-teams stink, again, although the power play is now more offensive — not in a good way — than the penalty kill....

Who’s the go-to goaltender?

Gulutzan insisted last week there is no goaltending controversy at the Saddledome. But at the very least, it’s a goaltending conundrum.

Brian Elliott and Chad Johnson have split the workload so far: three games apiece. Elliott is expected to be back between the pipes in Chicago, but there were some eyebrows raised when Johnson received the starting nod for Saturday’s showdown with the Blues, with the man they call ‘Moose’ serving as backup in his first meeting against his former team....

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