NHL Weekend Rankings: The Shocking Stories Everyone’s Buzzing About—But Are They True?
Six games into the season, the Flames look awful. They can’t score, they can barely keep the puck out of their own net and they’re stuck at a miserable 1-5-0. Worse, their only win came in a shootout way back on opening night. They’re not out of the playoff hunt, because it’s impossible to be out this early. But they’re getting dangerously close before the season even really gets going.
And while we can point to plenty of players who are off to slow starts, it’s not hard to find the big story in Calgary. It’s Dustin Wolf, last year’s revelation who seemed to have emerged as a legitimate star in goal as a 23-year-old rookie. He finished second in Calder balloting and even earned a few Hart votes. That performance earned him a big new contract (and, indirectly, a smaller one for his coach too). The Flames had plenty of question marks, but the assumption was that they were all set at the most important position for the next decade or so.
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