Calgary Flames of the 2017 playoffs not the 2015 version of themselves
CALGARY — The current edition of the Calgary Flames are a different team than the one that made the NHL playoffs two years ago.
Small, fast and larcenous, the Flames of 2015 were a lightning-in-a-bottle squad that earned a quarter of their points that season when trailing after two periods.
With scant playoff experience through that roster, getting to the post-season for the first time in six years and making it to the second round for the first time in 11, was considered a massive bucking of the odds.
The 2017 Flames are bigger, meaner and more seasoned in playoff experience because of a combination of the run to the second round two years ago and the players imported since then.