{"id":555672,"date":"2026-04-19T01:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555672\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:12:27","slug":"five-biggest-positives-from-the-calgary-flames-2025-26-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555672\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Biggest Positives From The Calgary Flames 2025\/26 Season"},"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=\"60\">For three straight seasons coming into 2025\/26, the <a href=\"https:\/\/flameforthought.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Calgary Flames<\/a> failed to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and as a result, many fans were calling for the organization to move towards a full on rebuild. Given the overall lack of talent on the current roster, it was well known that the team was going to struggle, but with a top pick potentially waiting at the end of the season, there were no doubt reasons for the franchise to be positive.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"63\">Now, the regular season has come and gone, with the Flames finishing 29th overall in the National Hockey League, with the long-term future clearly becoming the priority for many involved in the Flames.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"66\">Given the lack of results, there will be plenty of negativity within the locker room and on social media, but with a big off-season ahead, lets take a look back on some of the biggest positives we can take away from a rough 2025\/26 regular season in Calgary.<\/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 three straight seasons coming into 2025\/26, the Calgary Flames failed to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-555672","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\/116428718855156499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555672","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=555672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}