As with the Colorado Avalanche, the 2015-16 season for the Calgary Flames was a huge disappointment for Flames fans. After advancing to the second round of the playoffs in the spring of 2015, the Flames saw a huge regression this year, finishing with 77 points, good for third worst in the West, and fifth worst overall.
While Flames fans were disappointed, many hockey pundits were not surprised. Although the Flames have a talented core, analysts predicted this regression due to the Flames’ poor analytic numbers. These analysts saw the Flames playoff run as a fluke and predicted, correctly, that the Flames would fall back to Earth in 2015-16.