VANCOUVER — Triple digits.The current cast of Calgary Flames reached rare air with Saturday’s 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks, surging past the 100-point plateau for just the fif…
The current cast of Calgary Flames reached rare air with Saturday’s 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks, surging past the 100-point plateau for just the fifth time in franchise history.Perched atop the Western Conference for most of this wonderful winter, Bill Peters’ bunch now boasts a 47-21-7 record — a whopping 101 points. That also marks the Flames’ highest win total since 1988-89, a campaign that ended with a championship parade.
The three forwards tic-tac-toed the puck toward the net on Giordano’s first-period strike — Mangiapane to Hathaway to Ryan, who dished to the captain for a no-doubter from the left circle. Ryan, Hathaway and Mangiapane certainly aren’t in that sort of stratosphere, but they have been consistent, reliable and tenacious and are now being rewarded for it.
You can’t sugarcoat the stats, and James Neal is first to admit he expected to provide more offensive pop after signing a big-bucks contract with the Calgary Flames this past summer.“I came here to win. I came here to want to be in this position,” Neal stressed prior to Saturday’s clash with the Canucks in Vancouver. “You always love to score and you want to score as many goals as you can, but I would rather have five goals and our team be in first place than have 45 and us out of the playoffs.
For his Western Conference-leading club, the good news is they’ve had no problems lighting the lamp, even if the new guy in No. 18 hasn’t produced as planned.
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