Articles by Wes Gilbertson

Yeah, the Flames are frustrated — ‘and I think we should be’

“It’s been frustrating. Obviously, not the start we envisioned,” acknowledged veteran voice-of-reason Blake Coleman. “Things are definitely not coming easy right now. We’re having to work for everything we get, and that’s just the way it is. Teams go through stretches like this, all throughout the year. It just gets a little magnified with it being the first couple weeks of the season. That’s the way it goes, but every day is a new day. Nobody is going to sit there and feel sorry for us. We have to find a way in our room to turn things around, and do it quickly.

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What do the stats tell us about the Flames’ awful start?

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Three takeaways as Flames fall to Jets for sixth straight loss

“We just have to keep getting pucks to the net,” said Flames netminder Dustin Wolf, who watched from the opposite end as his crew fired 33 shots on Connor Hellebuyck but only slipped one past him. “That’s been the message the last couple days is we have to go low-to-high and pound pucks. That’s exactly how we scored our goal tonight. We have to keep getting traffic in front and putting pucks there. That’s the game of hockey — bounces are bound to go in at some point. You just have to put pucks there and do the work to get rewarded for them.”