Happy New Year!
The Calgary Flames begin their 2022 playing schedule on Sunday in Chicago, but they played 85 games in the 2021 calendar year – a byproduct of the 56-game compressed 2020-21 season and the first chunk of the 2021-22 season.
Here are some highlights!
The Flames posted a 42-34-9 record, good for a .547 points percentage. In both points and points percentage, they were 17th in the NHL. The team actually had three coaches in 2021, as Ryan Huska briefly served as interim coach while Darryl Sutter was quarantining before joining the Flames after being hired to replace Geoff Ward on Mar.