The Calgary Flames are a very good hockey team. Sometimes, even the best teams need to make changes.
When the Flames acquired Tyler Pitlick from the Seattle Kraken this past July, they undoubtedly hoped he’d be able to help solidify the team’s defensive game while also chipping in some secondary scoring.
Those weren’t wholly unreasonable goals. Pitlick managed to score 14 times in 80 games with the Dallas Stars in 2017–18 and followed that up with 22 more in 153 contests over the next three seasons, which he split between the Stars, Philadelphia Flyers, and Arizona Coyotes.