Before this season started, if you’d asked most hockey fans which two Canadian teams were the strongest, the universal answer would have been the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Winnipeg Jets.
And yet, there the Calgary Flames are sitting second in the NHL. How have they achieved this feat? Well, we’ll get to that in a bit. Pregame music:
Zach Hyman - John Tavares - Mitch Marner
Andreas Johnsson - Auston Matthews - Kasperi Kapanen
Patrick Marleau - William Nylander - Connor Brown
Tyler Ennis - Frederik Gauthier - Trevor Moore
Morgan Rielly - Ron Hainsey
Jake Muzzin - Nikita Zaitsev
Martin Marincin - Igor Ozhiganov
Frederik Andersen
Garret Sparks
It’s an unforgiving business for our undersized wingers at the bottom of the roster.