The 2025–26 season has been a nightmare for the Calgary Flames. With a massive live to the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday night, the Flames start went from bad, to historically bad.
According to their fans, the Calgary Flames should be in full tank mode, and they’re right. The team has had a miserable 1-5-0 start to the 2025-26 season, as the future of many players is now up in the air.
The Calgary Wranglers played their fourth game of the season on Sunday and finally secured their first victory of the season. The previous competition between them and the Tucson Roadrunners resulted in a heartbreaking 5-4 overtime loss after a three goal comeback.
The floundering Calgary Flames are hoping a return home will be the tonic to snap their losing skid when the high-flying Winnipeg Jets visit on Monday.
The Calgary Flames‘ 2025-26 season has gotten off to nearly as bad a start as possible, as they have lost five straight and are dead last in the NHL with a 1-5-0 record.
Things are not going according to plan for the Calgary Flames. A year ago, the Flames entered the 2024-25 season after a chaotic 2023-24 curious about their team and willing to do nothing and see what the team was capable of.
The Calgary Flames’ 2025–26 campaign so far has been far from ideal. The team is now 1–5–0, as it seems like this may be another season where the Flames dominate news headlines.
Things continued to go bad for the Calgary Flames as they got thoroughly defeated 6-1 at the hands of the Vegas Golden Knights. CF% – 50.38%|| SCF% – 45.62%|| HDCF% – 36.06%|| xGF% – 40.31% It’s a Team Game – There’s two things going on with Calgary right now.
The Calgary Flames are going to be sticking around at the bottom of the standings for the foreseeable future. Heading into Saturday evening, the Flames were last in the entire NHL, and that won’t change heading into Sunday.
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Is GM Craig Conroy secretly tanking for Gavin McKenna? If so, he’s doing a great job. We’re 10 days into the 2025-26 NHL season, and the Calgary Flames are in last place.
The Calgary Flames have assigned winger Matvei Gridin to the AHL’s Calgary Wranglers to make room to activate Jonathan Huberdeau off of injured reserve.
The Calgary Flames have had a long-lasting reputation of going with veteran players rather than giving an opportunity to some of their younger talent in the pipeline.
Dustin Wolf’s first full season with the Calgary Flames was one to remember, posting a 29-16-8 record with a .910 save percentage (SV%) and 2.64 goals against average (GAA) in 53 games.
The Calgary Flames appear to be taking a cautious approach to their backup goaltending situation. While they didn’t claim any netminders off waivers this fall, Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported on the 32 Thoughts podcast that the team has been in contact with other clubs to explore potential options.
In this week’s edition of Calgary Flames News & Rumours, Jonathan Huberdeau was noticeably absent during player intros in the home opener this past week, fueling some speculation that he may be out of the lineup for some time.