[Ryan Pike] Is the Calgary Flames’ 2025-2026 season already a lost cause 15 games in?
November 8, 2025
[Ryan Pike] Is the Calgary Flames’ 2025-2026 season already a lost cause 15 games in?
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Is the season a lost cause? No, they’re ~8 points out of a playoff position with 66 games remaining. If they got their act together they could make the playoffs.
Should anyone expect a turn around? No, they’re ~8 points out of the playoffs after 16 games. This team playing 0.500 hockey for the rest of the year would represent a massive improvement, and that would leave them at 74 points and about 24 points outside of the playoffs.
I hope this is just a 2 second video of a guy saying the word yes.
No we are just holding back , here comes a 60 game wining stretch. We win the cup, and somehow get the first draft pick. I also win the lottery in this timeline.
Yes
They’re obviously not a contender by any means but I don’t think anyone foresaw them being this bad. Throw it away and get a McKenna type player in the draft, we need some skill
Does Dolly Parton have to sleep on her back?
Tough for me to accept, but I know deep down we are not good enough. Our kids have fallen off big time, and our vets are only getting older. I can’t control what happens obviously, and i will NEVER cheer for losses, but this team needs star power.
Pretty good doesn’t mean bad, which is what the Flames are right now, stop coping. embrace the stink, otherwise y’all just look pathetic….More so, haha.
But what’s the point of making the playoffs
Controversial….
But sell sell sell!
Yes. Next question
A big issue is there hasn’t been that next step for guys like Zary or Coronato. Zary was over half a point a game as a rookie and now has 2 in 14 games. Coronato had a good year last year but isn’t improving this year. This team severely lacks young talent that is producing at an NHL level. Of our top 6 in points 4 of them are 32 or older.
To reach 96 points, the boys would have to play at a 107pt pace from here out. Last year only four teams hit that mark. The flames are not capable of being a top four team over the next 66 games.
Ok him chewing gum while talking close into the camera was kind of gross.
Who’s this guy
Embrace the suck. This year was lost as of last year. The good times are ahead of us if we put in the real suffering now.
Lost cause? Depends how we treat our year! If we look at it as a development year, get our young guys playing together and let them make their mistakes and figure out how to translate their game to the NHL level. Then no, its not a lost cause. If we trade away some vets with value to add picks and prospects then no its not a lost cause.
If we keep throwing our lines into a blender and never give our young guys a chance to build chemistry. Refuse to trade guys with value, and keep acting like this is the team that will defy all odds, stats, and logic in the hopes that they somehow slide into a playoffs spot… then yes, its a lost cause!
16 comments
Is the season a lost cause? No, they’re ~8 points out of a playoff position with 66 games remaining. If they got their act together they could make the playoffs.
Should anyone expect a turn around? No, they’re ~8 points out of the playoffs after 16 games. This team playing 0.500 hockey for the rest of the year would represent a massive improvement, and that would leave them at 74 points and about 24 points outside of the playoffs.
I hope this is just a 2 second video of a guy saying the word yes.
No we are just holding back , here comes a 60 game wining stretch. We win the cup, and somehow get the first draft pick. I also win the lottery in this timeline.
Yes
They’re obviously not a contender by any means but I don’t think anyone foresaw them being this bad. Throw it away and get a McKenna type player in the draft, we need some skill
Does Dolly Parton have to sleep on her back?
Tough for me to accept, but I know deep down we are not good enough. Our kids have fallen off big time, and our vets are only getting older. I can’t control what happens obviously, and i will NEVER cheer for losses, but this team needs star power.
Pretty good doesn’t mean bad, which is what the Flames are right now, stop coping. embrace the stink, otherwise y’all just look pathetic….More so, haha.
But what’s the point of making the playoffs
Controversial….
But sell sell sell!
Yes. Next question
A big issue is there hasn’t been that next step for guys like Zary or Coronato. Zary was over half a point a game as a rookie and now has 2 in 14 games. Coronato had a good year last year but isn’t improving this year. This team severely lacks young talent that is producing at an NHL level. Of our top 6 in points 4 of them are 32 or older.
To reach 96 points, the boys would have to play at a 107pt pace from here out. Last year only four teams hit that mark. The flames are not capable of being a top four team over the next 66 games.
Ok him chewing gum while talking close into the camera was kind of gross.
Who’s this guy
Embrace the suck. This year was lost as of last year. The good times are ahead of us if we put in the real suffering now.
Lost cause? Depends how we treat our year! If we look at it as a development year, get our young guys playing together and let them make their mistakes and figure out how to translate their game to the NHL level. Then no, its not a lost cause. If we trade away some vets with value to add picks and prospects then no its not a lost cause.
If we keep throwing our lines into a blender and never give our young guys a chance to build chemistry. Refuse to trade guys with value, and keep acting like this is the team that will defy all odds, stats, and logic in the hopes that they somehow slide into a playoffs spot… then yes, its a lost cause!