What went wrong<\/p>\n
Offensive issues: The Flames experienced difficult scoring this season. They have the third-fewest goals per game at 2.57 which is better than only the Vancouver Canucks (2.56) and the Chicago Blackhawks (2.55). Forward Nazem Kadri<\/a> led Calgary with 41 points (12 goals, 29 assists) in 61 games before he was traded to the Colorado Avalanche on March 6. Morgan Frost<\/a> (21 goals, 20 assists), Matt Coronato<\/a> (17 goals, 24 assists) and Mikael Granlund<\/a> (16 goals, 25 assists) also have 41 points, but that\u2019s simply not enough production from the Flames\u2019 top forwards. Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a>\u00a0who had 62 points (28 goals, 34 assists) in 81 games last season, had 25 points (10 goals, 15 assists) in 50 games before having season-ending hip surgery last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n Defensive deficiencies: Calgary has given up an average of 3.17 goals per game this season, the ninth-most in the League. Goalies Dustin Wolf<\/a> and Devin Cooley<\/a>\u00a0did their part trying to keep the puck out of the net, but neither received enough help from those playing in front of them; Calgary has allowed an average of 29.8 shots per game, the third-most behind the Blackhawks (30.3) and Toronto Maple Leafs (32.5). Wolf is 22-27-3 \u00a0with a 3.09 goals-against average and .895 save percentage in 54 games (52 starts); Cooley is 10-9-6 with a 2.68 GAA and .911 save percentage in 30 games (25 starts). The Flames acquired veteran defensemen Zach Whitecloud<\/a>, 29, from the Vegas Golden Knights on Jan. 18, and Olli Maatta<\/a>, 31, from the Utah Mammoth on March 4, which helped stabilized their back end, but they were unable to make a playoff push.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What went wrong Offensive issues: The Flames experienced difficult scoring this season. They have the third-fewest goals per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-547552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116369715618324724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}