by Rita MingoFiled under: Flames
Keeping the puck out of the net was supposed to be one area in which the Calgary Flames were equal to the task.
What with a veteran blueline corps, a top-notch goaltender and a defence-driven game plan, scoring goals, not stopping them, was perceived to be the main issue once again at the outset of this season.
But having allowed 17 goals in the past three games and giving up leads in each of them, the spotlight turned early this week on what in the world is up with the Flames in their own end.
Interestingly, the team had given up 17 goals in the first eight games of the season.
The second period on Saturday night in Calgary was a frightful one -- just in time for Halloween -- as the Washington Capitals scored six goals on the home side en route to a 7-2 triumph. Goalie Miikka Kiprusoff promptly came out of the net -- some say on his own accord, he says not -- and made way for his understudy, Henrik Karlsson.
To start the third, lo and behold, Kiprusoff was in net once again.
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