{"id":554081,"date":"2026-04-16T21:15:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554081\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T21:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:15:39","slug":"young-forward-on-pace-to-make-unfortunate-piece-of-calgary-flames-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/554081\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Forward On Pace To Make Unfortunate Piece Of Calgary Flames History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5t\">For several years under Ryan Huska, the <a href=\"https:\/\/flameforthought.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> have been among the lowest scoring teams in the National Hockey League, with the team ranking 31st in the NHL with 2.53 goals per game in 2025\/26 following 2.68 ranking them 29th a season ago. Obviously, that&#8217;s effected individual production in a major way, with the Flames top scorer a year ago being Nazem Kadri with 67 and Jonathan Huberdeau with 62.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5w\">Neither played a full campaign with the Flames this season, so that meant that we would have a new point leader this campaign, with the likes of Mikael Backlund, Matt Coronato and Morgan Frost stepping up throughout the year. Currently, it&#8217;s 23-year old Coronato in the lead with 44 points (18 goals, 26 assists), putting him just three points back of his career high from a year ago with one game in the season to play.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"5z\">While it&#8217;s a solid second full season for the former first-round pick, with hopes rising for the future, he&#8217;s on pace to make a very unfortunate piece of Calgary Flames franchise history. As of right now, the lowest single season points leader (in a non-lockout campaign) is Jiri Hurdler from the 2013\/14 season when he had 54 points across 75 games played. <\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"62\">Given that, Coronato would need to score 11 points against the Los Angeles Kings in the Flames season finale to pass Hurdler&#8217;s mark, and given that that&#8217;s unlikely to happen, we will have a new record holder following the season. Despite this, there have been some positive signs, with the Flames finishing with 10 players in double-digit goals while players such as Morgan Frost, Joel Farabee and Matvei Gridin have set single season highs with the organization.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"65\">Ultimately, this isn&#8217;t going to get much better anytime soon for the Flames, as many feel the likes of Gridin, Zayne Parekh, Aydar Suniev and other young stars are a few years away from being at their best, so for now, Flames fans may need to get used to the offensive mediocrity. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.minutemediacdn.com\/platform\/google_discover_icon.svg\" class=\"shrink-0\"\/>Add us as a preferred source on Google<a aria-label=\"Follow flameforthought.com on Google News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=flameforthought.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"flex h-[30px] w-[30px] shrink-0 items-center justify-center rounded-full bg-primary font-group-large text-sm font-medium text-white transition-colors hover:bg-secondary focus:bg-secondary md:w-auto md:gap-2.5 md:px-4 md:py-[5px]\">Follow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For several years under Ryan Huska, the Calgary Flames have been among the lowest scoring teams in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-554081","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\/116416461977683509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554081","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=554081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}