Friends, if there’s one useful takeaway from the first two Calgary Flames game at the 2022 Young Stars Classic, it’s probably this: the club’s defensive game hasn’t been very good.
But it’s also probably nothing to worry about when you factor who’s involved and the situation they’re in.
The Flames were out-scored in their two games, losing 3-0 to Vancouver and 4-1 to Edmonton. Each game featured some flashes of brilliance from the Flames forwards at times, but they ended up spending more and more time in their own zone as the game went along.
If you look at some of the goals they allowed, the culprit was some spotty defensive zone coverage.