It’s only five games, right? Article content

It has to be too early to panic for the Calgary Flames . Article content Article content

And yet, these five first games of the 2025-26 season count for just as many points as the games in March and April, when the playoff race is going full-blast, and going 1-4-0 isn’t going to help the Flames reach any of the goals they set for themselves pre-season.

You don’t throw in the towel because of a rough start to the year, but as head coach Ryan Huska acknowledged after Wednesday’s 3-1 loss to the Utah Mammoth , the repercussions of not figuring your game out fast can be severe.

“You need to find your game in a hurry because you can’t make the playoffs in the first month of the year, but you can surely miss them,” Huska told reporters in

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