The 2020-21 season was, in a word, rough for the Calgary Flames. The team wasn’t all that good and they ended up using three different coaches at various types. But Darryl Sutter was the third of those three coaches, and the changes that he started to implement in the final 30 games of 2020-21 helped the team turn a corner to begin the 2021-22 season.
Let’s dig into just how much better the Flames are now than when Sutter returned to them last March.
Team and systems
Let’s dive in a bit on team-wide and system-specific aspects of the Flames game and how they changed between coaches last season, and from last season to this season.