The Flames erased an early deficit on Black Friday en route to a 5-3 victory over the defending Stanley Cup champs.

Procrastination was apparently the theme of the day for the Calgary Flames .

A few hours before Friday’s opening faceoff in Florida, the Flames announced that oh-by-the-way they’d signed four of their top executives — including Craig Conroy and Don Maloney — to contract extensions prior to the start of this season.

To celebrate, the players did a little dilly-dallying of their own.

They spotted the defending Stanley Cup champions an early two-goal cushion, only to rally for a 5-3 victory in a Black Friday matinee in Sunrise, Fla.

“I’m proud of our group that we didn’t fold,” star centre Nazem Kadri told reporters after the flipped script against the Panthers, which m

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