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Restating the case for the Flames to call up Matthew Phillips

The Calgary Flames need to find more ways to score goals.

Johnny Gaudreau has been the team’s primary offensive driver all season long. Matthew Tkachuk, Elias Lindholm, and Andrew Mangiapane have also been hugely important scorers for the 2021–22 Flames.

Collectively, those four players have scored 58 times for the Flames this season. The rest of Calgary’s forwards have combined to score just 31 goals. Milan Lucic accounts for eight of those, and his current pace is almost assuredly unsustainable.

Blake Coleman has been an excellent defensive forward this season but has yet to find his scoring touch as a Flame.