The 2020-21 season begins on Thursday night for the Calgary Flames and there has been a bunch written in various places about the stakes of the season. With apologies for putting the punchline first, here goes: this isn’t a make or break season for the Flames. The team will not be blown up if they don’t have massive success.
But after several years of tinkering and waiting for the club to take the next step, this may be the last hurrah for some of the team’s longer-tenured individuals. After numerous moves to improve the team around them, after this season the only thing left to change may be a quartet of their core players.