The Calgary Flames were a team with some problems in 2017-18. A lot of words were written – both here and elsewhere – about the team’s shortcomings this past season. We’ve dug into some of the numbers regarding the team’s performance in particular game situations, trying to look at whether or not the team truly did “crumble” or collapse in specific situations.
The Flames had a negative goal differential in every major game situation; leading, trailing and when the games were tied. Based on the numbers we’ve dug up, the Flames are a team that battled hard in close games, but seemed to fall off big-time when the games began to get away from them.