Calgary Flames: Five games to circle in your calendar for 2017-18

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Game #3 – CGY vs. PIT – Nov. 02, 2017

It’s a little weird when a must see game is against a team in a different conference, but hear me out. The Pittsburgh Penguins (as everyone knows because Pens fans don’t stop talking about it), won back-to-back Stanley Cup Champions for the last two years. AKA the NHL cancelled the 2016 and the 2017 Stanley Cup. Wow, that sucks for the Penguins, they could have had back-to-back cups!

But all joking aside, yes they won two years in a row. But you know what they haven’t been able to do in those two years?

Beat the Calgary Flames.

In the 2015-16 season, the Flames were one of just three teams who the Pens couldn’t get any points against. Last season, they still managed points against the Flames, but they lost in shootout in both games. And both 3-2 wins for the Flames.

One was a little frustrating because the Flames looked to have scored in overtime and Sean Monahan looked to have gotten his 100th goal, becoming the youngest Flame in franchise history to get to that 100 goal mark, but they waived it off because Matt Murray shook his helmet off. I mean, I’m for a rule like that, for player safety reasons. But in the rule-book right now, it states that if the goaltender removes his own helmet (Murray shook it off), and if the opposing team has an impeding scoring opportunity (which the Flames did), then the whistle won’t get blown. But that’s behind us now.

I mean, yeah, the Penguins may have won back-to-back Cups, but they haven’t been able to win against the Flames so looks like they should hand over their Cups now.

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