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Let's Talk About The Penalty Kill

We're a third of the way through the 2015-16 season for the Calgary Flames, and I think one thing is abundantly clear: the team's penalty killing is truly awful. The larger question is "why?"

Well, to be blunt, it's bad enough that we can localize all types of reasons why the penalty killing is so bad. Let's run through them, shall we?

THEY GET SCORED ON EARLY

The Flames have given up 22 goals on their penalty kill. Of those 22 goals, 10 of them have been in the first 30 seconds of a penalty kill.