1. Right Back At It<\/p>\n
No time for the Flames to dwell on a disappointing setback in Vancouver Saturday night. The team landed at Boeing Field in Seattle shortly after midnight Sunday, with a 6 p.m. MT puck drop – and rematch – against the Kraken on tap on a busy sports day in the Puget Sound.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Stick tap to those fans who will take in the NFL’s Seahawks and Chargers, then this NHL contest on the other side of downtown Seattle, by the way.<\/p>\n
But there’s perhaps no opponent (save those provincial rivals from Edmonton) against whom a win would feel quite as sweet right now. Three days on from a home-opener defeat at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Flames get another crack at the Kraken, and a chance to finish this busy, West Coast weekend on the right note.<\/p>\n
One way to get back on track? Try as one might to stay on the right side of the law.<\/p>\n
Calgary has surrendered 10 powerplay opportunities through their first two games of the campaign, and while their 90% success rate on the penalty-kill is nothing to sneeze at, there’s an acknowledgement from the group that undisciplined play cannot continue.<\/p>\n
“We’ve just got to be smarter,” captain Mikael Backlund said Saturday night after the loss to the Canucks. “Again, it’s going to be hard to win games in the penalty box. It’s not the (recipe) for success, but I like the way the guys responded.”<\/p>\n
Dustin Wolf is likely to draw the assignment between the pipes in this second half of a back-to-back scenario, as he – and the club – goes in search of their first victory of the new season.<\/p>\n
The Flames have fared admirably of late, though, when playing the second half of back-to-back series. Calgary went 4-4-1 in what we’ll call ‘cappers’ to avoid repetition a season ago, with tonight’s game serving as the first of eight such situations in 2026-27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. Right Back At It No time for the Flames to dwell on a disappointing setback in Vancouver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-920511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920511","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=920511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}