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Around these parts, which could be more frightening than the current-loss record of victories of the Calgary Flames?
After Friday's 6-2 setback to the league-leading Montreal Canadiens at the Saddledome, the Flames now have a 2-8-1 mark this fall.
Boo!
Scary.
"Sometimes we just look like a minor league team," said Flames right winger David Jones. "We do not make plays. We mishandling of the puck and just kind of throw it. Just not much composure out there right now, and I think what happens when you lose games.
"We just have to find a way out of there. I know we said it all season, but we need a spark."
There were heaps of enthusiasm and optimism about what the Flames could accomplish this season, but the film from the first month of the new campaign is just as gory as The Exorcist, The Shining or any other film horror.
The loss on Friday was no exception.
The Flames looked strong in the early going, but their momentum disappeared in the blink starter when Joni Ortio could not shake his skates over what looked like a harmless one timer right winger Dale Weise Jersey that the out-of-towners caught a fast forward.
It got worse - surprise, surprise - in the second period. The Flames actually potted a pair in the middle Friday - Jiri Hudler and Josh Jooris did the honors - but that did not matter much after they went three at the other end, including Weise second of the night.
The Flames have now allowed 19 second-period markers this season.
To put this in perspective, the Nashville Predators and Los Angeles Kings dug under their nets washers, total.
And how has it happened for the home side in the third?
Well ... Habs speedster Paul Byron - waivers Calgary earlier this month - scored on a breakaway shorthanded.
Yes, that's the guy who could not buy a separatist goal last season when he was on the payroll of Flames.
And Weise completed the hat-trick.
Yes, that's the guy who never raised more than two points in 269 NHL previous outings. To add insult, the Flames had to wait for Habs fans littered the ice with lids Saddledome.
Nathan Beaulieu and Devante Smith-Pelly also scored on Ortio, which was shelled for six goals on 31 shots.
"I have to stop the puck, that's it," said Ortio. "It has been said that we need to do, and now it's just a matter of execution and actually do the things we have to do there. The talk is not enough. We need action . "
And so on.
For franchise based in Calgary, the worst record in October came during the 1995-96 campaign. This fall, with the star center Joe Nieuwendyk at home because of a contract holdout member that would eventually lead to a historic trade with the Dallas Stars, they managed to collect only five points in 11 front runners the calendar turned to November.
If they can not squeeze a point - or two - on Saturday's game with the Edmonton Oilers at Rexall Place (8 pm, CBC / Sportsnet 960 The Fan), the current distribution of Flames match Wes Craven months caliber. In a dozen games, not 11.
"We got to stay positive," said the captain of the Flames Mark Giordano. "I mean, we are going through a difficult time. It seems that every bad thing that happens, it seems that we are not finding a way out of it. We just gotta keep playing, keep working hard, and eventually we'll get some breaks here.
"Tonight, I think it was not a game 6-2. I thought it was a game of back and forth for a while, and we just let it slip away."
Jones added: "We have a long way to go, a long way to climb, but I think we're just trying to find a win here Forget further down the road than that - it is about to play a good 60 minutes.. get a win of regulation, which we have not done. "
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