from Wes Gilbertson of the Calgary Sun,

Maybe we’ve been asking the wrong question.

What’s wrong with the Calgary Flames? Pffft.

Let’s start with this one instead … What are the Calgary Flames?

After their latest lacklustre loss, after a rollercoaster six-game road-trip with more catapults than climbs, the Flames returned home with an identity crisis.

Again. Or maybe still.

What are they?

The short-term answers are simple.

They’re frustrated, as you should be when you’ve been on the wrong end of too many blowouts and just dropped two of three to the basement-dwelling Ottawa Senators, a rebuilding bunch that is suddenly surging but has mostly been a punching bag for the top troupes in the NHL’s North Division.

They’re snakebitten, scoring a grand total of one goal in each of their past eight setbacks.

They’re so inconsistent that it’s actually become oh-so-predictable.

And they’re mediocre. According to their record, that’s actually a smidge generous.

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