This week’s edition of the Steve Dangle Podcast saw the show’s namesake put forth a very simple question: “At what point do you stop believing in the Calgary Flames?” While making their qualifying round picks, none of the show’s three hosts chose the Flames to win, and Dangle put his thoughts rather succinctly: “They’ve got some really good pieces, I just don’t believe in them.”
The Flames enter their qualifying round series with the Winnipeg Jets at an interesting juncture in their history. Progress and growth is definitively not linear in any field, but the Flames have been distinctly “one step forward, one step back” for the past several seasons.