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What to take from three Calgary Flames ‘reality check’ losses

Since the Calgary Flames returned from their COVID-related pause, they’ve played five games away from the Saddledome. They won the first two, albeit against a pair of sub-.500 teams, and then they headed south and rattled off three consecutive losses against three of the top teams in the National Hockey League.

After a trio of games where they were outscored by a combined 16-6, let’s unpack the significance of a trio of games where they were sometimes unlucky, sometimes bad, and sometimes both – all in very specific ways.

Let’s think about results

Alright, from a pure results standpoint, this was a bad week.