GET TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\nCalgary and Vancouver haven’t faced each other for over four months – heck, the Canucks haven’t been to the Scotiabank Saddledome since the pre-season – but that all changes on the\u00a0Hockey Night in Canada\u00a0stage as the Flames close out their season-long six-game homestand.<\/p>\n
There’s been a lot to like over the past two weeks beneath the Saddle. Exciting games, emergent young players, and a plucky group effort that has seen the Flames claim nine of the 10 points available to them in their previous five outings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But after Thursday’s 3-2 overtime setback to the Ducks, Head Coach Ryan Huska spoke to the importance of simplicity as his group looks to close out this run of home dates on a positive note.<\/p>\n
“I think there were certain times where we over-passed the puck,” the bench boss commented post-game Thursday. “We\u2019re a team that has to put pucks to the net, and then find a way to then generate off of a rebound at times.<\/p>\n
“You\u2019re all for creativity and skill, but at some point, someone\u2019s gotta shoot it in the net. You can\u2019t pass it in there.”<\/p>\n
The homestand has brought balance, too. Calgary has scored 13 goals over these last five games, with 11 different players lighting the lamp.<\/p>\n
More encouraging, too, the fact both forward Connor Zary and defenceman Yan Kuznetsov skated Friday with a small group of players, suggesting that if neither are available for selection Saturday, they could each be options when the Flames start a season-long six-game road trip Monday in Denver.<\/p>\n
And with that two-week trip looming, there’s no doubt this group would love nothing more than to head South feeling good, and continuing to play well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Saturday Night’s Alright All of a sudden, the Flames have just one Saturday home game left on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-566907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}