One of the best stories surrounding the Calgary Flames this season has been the dominance of Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, Elias Lindholm, Matthew Tkachuk and Mark Giordano. The quintet have often been directly responsible for dragging the Flames to victory on many a night they probably didn’t deserve to win.
In a world that loves nicknames, they are surprisingly without one: this despite being the first fivesome to reach 70 points since the 2000-01 Pittsburgh Penguins’ Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Martin Straka, Alex Kovalev and Robert Lang.
The Fantastic Five is the cheap and easy moniker, but my bid would be for Fab Five because let’s be honest, they are absolutely fabulous to watch.