Calgary could not keep up in a 5-1 loss to Tampa Bay at Benchmark International Arena

It was over before it began, really. And with the way things started for the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night, it could have ended a lot worse. The scoreline of the Flames’ (8-14-3) 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning (14-7-2) barely scratched the surface of telling the whole story. That final score doesn’t reveal that the Flames were down four goals within 10 minutes. It doesn’t tell you that the Lightning chased Dustin Wolf from the net after he allowed three of those goals on the first four shots of the game. It doesn’t really illustrate how big of a gap there was between a last-place in their division Flames team whose management insisted last week that it wouldn’t throw in the towel and

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