Five games in and the Flames are stumbling through a nightmarish start to the season. It's way too early to say the regression gods are taking their revenge, but it's certainly been a discouraging opening foray. The Flames have seen a lot of the bounces that favoured them last year go the opposite way so far while the opportunistic offense and last minute comebacks have been tragically absent.
No one is panicking yet, but it's not unfair to say that the team has to play a lot better very soon in order to be a going concern in the hyper competitive West.