CLICK FOR TICKETS<\/a><\/p>\nThe first four games of the season have seen some honest self-reflection from the Flames’ leadership group. Raw, powerful moments that detail the frustration felt in that dressing room.<\/p>\n
Calgary’s goaltending tandem is confident better days are ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both Dustin Wolf and\u00a0Devin Cooley met the media after a hard-skating Friday practice, with Wolf alluding to this week’s light game schedule as an opportunity to work on details; to reset, refresh, and come back stronger.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve given up too many goals, that\u2019s the bottom line,” the netminder admitted. “Our objective is to get points. I\u2019m not doing a good enough job at helping our team do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think this week has been a blessing in disguise for days between games, to try to get back to the way I want to play and the way the group wants to play.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wolf wears a lot on his shoulders. As a goaltender, he’s the last line of defence.<\/p>\n
And even before catching NHL eyes as a youngster with\u00a0the Western League’s Everett Silvertips, the Californian has tackled every challenge with steadfast determination. Wolf is a battler, a competitor, and like his Flames teammates, he’s dissatisfied with his 2026-27 body of work to date.<\/p>\n
But in airing his thoughts to a small group of media Friday morning, he offered up a reflection, accountability on what’s gone awry to begin the new season.<\/p>\n
With a commitment (and explanation for those of us not well-versed in the art of goaltending) to learn.<\/p>\n
To keep that competitive fire stoked.<\/p>\n
“Our D-zone coverage has been outstanding,” said Wolf, who like Cooley, is ranked outside the top 10 among NHL netminders in total shots faced at 5-on-5 per 60 minutes, per NHL Edge. “We\u2019re not giving up really anything in the zone which as a goalie, is kind of where our bread and butter is. That\u2019s how we do our job.<\/p>\n
“Everything coming off the rush has been – not new, but more volume – so it\u2019s maybe a little more difficult. Just watching video and seeing how I can approach it a little bit differently on rush chances against, that\u2019s been my objective all week.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. On To Anaheim It hasn’t been the start anyone envisioned. But as the Flames prepare to kick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-928014","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\/928014","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=928014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}