Friends, if you’ve followed along with the Calgary Flames over the past few seasons, you’ve probably noticed two distinct trends. First, they’re a hard-working team that does their level best to make their opponents work for every inch of ice and they hang around in close games. Second, they’re a team that lacks skilled difference-makers…

Way, way back in the early 1970s, the National Hockey League awarded the city of Atlanta, Georgia a franchise, in part to balance out the league’s schedule after they awarded a franchise to Long Island, New York in an effort to keep the upstart World Hockey Association out of the newly-built Nassau Coliseum. Adding a…