It somehow got even WORSE... (and it's very bad) | Calgary Flames News

The Calgary Flames are off to a historically bad start to the season, like genuinely one of the worst in the entire history of professional hockey, and things are looking really, really bad. So many players have been disappointments, and something absolutely needs to change. We're going to get to all that more in this video, but first I want to welcome you to Flames Digest. I'm Mark Griffith. If you're new around here and you love the Flames, make sure you subscribe so you can stay up to date on all the latest news, updates, reports, and rumors revolving around your Calgary Flames. we would love to welcome you to the Flames Digest family and i mean it just speaks for itself but this is a historically bad start to the season for the flames i'm going to address it once again i am recording this at work i love getting these videos out to you guys as soon as possible during the day and i've just been working so many late days lately want to get it recorded at work i mean thankfully the office isn't too bad it's a little embarrassing if you're recording in front of people but uh don't have my mic again so i'm hoping this sounds okay to you guys please let me know down below if it doesn't and I won't record like this again but um the audio might be bad but actually for sure is bad and just seemingly is getting worse and worse are our Calgary Flames once again not only did we lose the game not only are we only the only team in the league without a point but we got smoked again 7-3 and the Flames gave us some false hope in this game to be honest we were you know tied after one it was 1-1 Klapka scored an absolute worldly a beauty of a toe drag snipe for a wonderful goal assisted by Castagna Georgie gets his first career nhl point shout out to him which was awesome but otherwise you know the flames they get blasted in the third period especially to lose this one 7-3 i mean hey at least we didn't get stuck at one goal we actually scored three but you're not going to win games when you're giving up seven goals remember that stat from the past couple seasons of the Flames are however good in games where they score at least three goals yeah those days are gone now we just give up goals we feed them out like it's the Oprah Winfrey show but um let's get into the box score here to you start off so Coolio once again just a horrible game for our goalie he gives up seven goals on just 30 shots for the .767 save percentage and i always say was every goal his fault no of course not but i mean when you're giving up seven goals on just 30 shots that is horrible our goaltending has been horrible this season that was our one saving grace last year and a lot of people are thinking hey the Flames are one of the best tandems in the league they will not be saying that anymore based off of our early performances this season if we get into the box score now or into the skaters on the score sheet Backlund gets a goal Kevin Bahl of all people gets a goal Klapka like i said scored that beautiful goal uh Sharky the only person to have a positive plus minus for the Flames last night he picks up an assist so shout out to Sharky not the guy you'd expect when I say that stat Farabee gets an assist Strom gets an assist and like I said Costagna got an assist as well so happy again that we got three goals something to cheer about for the home crowd there but when you're giving up seven as well it's just not going well, something I kind of teased a little bit too was the standings, we're the only team without a point, we're not the only team without a win as Philly and LA want to join us in the, you know, abandoned for landon scenario going on here, but at least they've picked up some Daryl Sutter points the Flyers have two, the Kings have one, so we are officially the only team without a point at this point in the year, yes, there's still 80 games to go but we're the worst by far, I mean look at that negative 17 goal differential, it's funny too because I'm not just, you know, hyping this up saying it's a historically bad start, it genuinely is one of the worst starts, not for the Flames because it just is our worst ever start, I was looking at our our worst ever records after four games and the goal differential, this one is the worst by far, I'm pretty sure second worst was just last year, um, and we weren't even close to being this bad, but um yeah, only team without a point, it has been again historically bad to me, another thing too, like I said kind of in the intro is that there's been so many players that have been disappointments to me, where is the first line, where are Gridden, Coronado, Frost on the score sheet, I mean I know the the stats don't always tell the whole story, I'm not saying those guys are playing bad but where are they Gridden has been a huge disappointment in my eyes i'm not giving up on him just like i'm not giving up on you know Perreault Coronado Frost any of those guys but man it would be nice if they could get a little bit of something going i would say again I don't think Gridden's a bad player but where is he right now I know he's on a bad Flames team but where is he we were expecting him to step up a little more another guy that's been a major disappointment is this guy here Simon Nemetz I know once again the stats don't tell the whole story and we're only four games in but as of right now he does not look like he is worth his price tag that the Flames gave up I'm not saying we have to judge the trade now we're only four games in but we gave up a lot for this guy and I know he had some flashes especially in that home opener against Seattle where we ended up getting destroyed but man he has really really underwhelmed me so far and just I don't know he looks invisible out there at times which has been a little bit disappointing to me the Flames in general I'm going to show some more stats in a second too but one graphic that I absolutely love that I'm able to make now for you guys is this one it's the race for the Pacific Division title and I'll show you just how good it's going for the Flames here goes by date we're racking it up how are the standings looking as we head into october oh we're not too bad because we haven't played much huge dip we still haven't won all those other teams are kind of crisscrossing because they're actually getting points and lo and behold we're at the bottom i think this is the perfect graphic to show throughout the year the race for the pacific division as it actually will be hopefully a race between some of those teams we will not be in there it's hilarious to see vancouver up there but uh yeah obviously we're right at the bottom I think it's going to be awesome for kind of everyone who's on board with the tank to see this graphic we just dipped at the very beginning because we just started there in fifth for whatever reason I don't even know why we're there but we're at the bottom now and I think that's what counts for most people but if I go back into maybe some of the stats of this just historically bad start once again as Colton Baxter's pointing out here we are coming for history we are being compared to the worst teams in NHL history and again it's only four games in at the time of the screenshot it was just three but it's the lowest points percentage in a season in NHL history so you think of that you know Washington Capitals team in the mid-70s when they became a team they were absolutely terrible the Philadelphia Quakers back in the 30s you get the expansion Senators expansion Sharks and then you get obviously more teams like the Quakers who just aren't even teams anymore the Pittsburgh Pirates I mean LA Kings are in there as well from just this season but that's again it's it's early days in the Quebec Bulldogs when you're being compared to teams from the 1930s 20s and even the late 1910s this ain't good again it's early I'm sure we won't end up being this bad but there's a chance my best friend asked me today he was like do you think the Flames will win a game this season I said I don't know I'm hoping for maybe 10 wins to be quite honest with you that's how bad we currently are taking that a little bit further going back to the goal tending matchsticks and gasoline here so i think this was before the game he said Flames goalies with 18 goals against on 96 shots rocking a crisp .812 save percentage now it's at an 807 save percentage through 14 or sorry through 14 through four games doesn't matter who you are that's going to get you an 0 and four record almost every time but especially when you can't score goalies need to be better regardless of chances they're facing so no matter the lack of goals we're scoring there's no shot our goalies should have an .807 save percentage through four games that is absolutely horrendous and unacceptable that's in my eyes the most reason we know it's really bad but it's somehow getting worse that even our goalies can't do anything anymore like they used to which is i i've gotta say you gotta laugh through the pain a little bit so i have two little joke memes to show you here's the first one i saw it came from at King Demidov saying could the Calgary Flames beat a beer league team and it certainly seems like we couldn't at this point relegate us to the AHL and we might not even win a game it has just been so bad for the Flames this year and i thought that was you have to laugh through the pain i thought that was a pretty funny one another one here quite harsh as well but uh it says the city of Calgary has decided to put the Saddle Dome out of its misery by demolishing it right now instead of forcing it to witness this season of Flames hockey it it's been an awful season so far and just two home games we've given up 13 goals and have no wins yet and it's just been again it just gets worse and worse it's so bad something's got to change whether it's you know a severe coaching change or something goes on with the lineup a big trade who knows we just need to get the bad juju out and i know it's a rebuilding year we're not expected to be good but getting crushed every game is no fun for any fan to watch well at least any Flames fan i should say now let's get into the second part here and talk a little bit about the rumor mill because the Flames have been definitely involved a little bit more lately uh first one i have to show here is from Frank Saravalli so again take it with a grain of salt but it's on that Line A stuff once again so Patrick Line A isn't the only free agent for the Flames are in conversation with after a rough start still unsigned is Vladimir Tarasenko, David Perron, JVR and Jonathan Drouin i don't want the Flames to sign any of those guys that takes a roster spot away and it's not like they're going to lead us to win Some of those guys are great scorers. I mean, Tarasenko's proven it in the past. Perron's a proven winner. JVR, who doesn't love that guy? Drew, I mean, he just takes a roster spot. I'm not too pleased about that. But we don't need any of these guys or Line A, in my opinion. It just makes no sense. Unless you're signing them to trade them for something at the deadline, then maybe go for it. Otherwise, we don't need to bring in these kind of, I mean, geriatrics at this point into a youth-infused year for the Flames. Next little rumor here. it comes from Friedman again on the Line A stuff so he said I'd heard that Calgary had kind of looked a little bit at Patrick Laine, on paper it makes sense but you've got all these young kids that you want to give opportunities to is a young kid coming off your power play if you get Laine there and the answer is yes you look at last game Sunyev was on there he surely would not only not be on the power play but probably wouldn't be in the NHL either if you bring in a guy like Laine so um I understand why people would be interested personally I am not interested in that one bit the last one here comes from Anthony DeMarco this one about Whitecloud, not Laine but he said speaking with Flyers sources last week Whitecloud's name was brought up as an archetype for the type of defenseman the team would be looking to add does that mean specifically that the Flyers are trying to acquire Whitecloud maybe probably but it also means a player like him if you can't get him if the price is too steep we're only going to sell him if the price is too steep if we get something really good back because he provides a lot for this team i mean i say that and we give up six seven goals every single game so it doesn't really matter at that point seems like his value is decreasing but that's just me being pessimistic right now because the Flames stink hopefully if we do end up trading Whitecloud it is for something really good and Philly could be a great destination because they are desperate right now uh let's get into the comments of the day to wrap up this video as we love to do here on the channel comes from yesterday's video of course and you know we didn't have Matthew's comment of saying you know four down 80 to go for the L but Roger here R Dunkley says oh it's gonna be a long season and it most certainly is it has been so painful we're only four games in and it's already just the worst year of our lives as Flames fans so hopefully you can get a little bit better but there's no denying it is going to be a long season thank you so much for watching this video please subscribe if you like what you saw here today and have a wonderful rest of your day