Through 63 games, the Calgary Flames are among the top teams in the National Hockey League, and they’re starting to get serious buzz league-wide as a legitimate Stanley Cup contender. Over at Daily Faceoff, our colleague Matt Larkin recently penned a piece looking at the common ingredients for Stanley Cup championship teams over the past 10 seasons.
His conclusion: Calgary’s local sports team has all the ingredients of a Cup contender.
Here’s how Larkin framed the exercise:
Out of pure curiosity, I broke down the past 10 Stanley Cup champions in various categories in search of meaningful correlations.