CALGARY — After eight straight losses, and weeks of frustration, the Calgary Flames finally got a chance to exhale Sunday night.

No matter where things go from here, and how hard it will be for the Flames to climb out of the hole they’ve been digging, it would be hard for anyone who has ever played a sport not to appreciate how good their first regulation win of the season must’ve felt.

“I would just say it’s a weight off our shoulders,” said Connor Zary, when asked to describe the feeling in a dressing room in which there haven’t been a lot of smiles of late.

“I think it’s been a tough stretch for us. We’ve had games where we’ve done the right thing and we haven’t come out with the result. And I think tonight we kind of put it together.”

Shattering their offensive glass ceiling with a

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