After scoring 289 goals in 2018-19, good for second-most in the National Hockey League, the Calgary Flames managed just 210 tallies last season and fell back to 20th in the league’s offensive rankings.
The Flames weren’t as inept offensively in 2019-20 as they have been in the past—they scored more goals in 70 games last year than they did in Brent Sutter’s 82-game debut as Flames coach in 2009-10—but their overall output still came as a disappointment. Much of the regression came at the top of the lineup, with Johnny Gaudreau, Mark Giordano, Sean Monahan, and Matthew Tkachuk all falling pretty far from their 2018-19 paces.