Can the Calgary Flames Fulfill Their Playoff Dreams in 2009?
“,”body”:”The Calgary Flames enter the 2009 Stanley Cup Playoffs seemingly winded from the long regular season and incredibly lucky to have played so well in the first half of the campaign. Had they not performed the way they did earlier, they could easily have found themselves with nothing to do but prepare for a long offseason.\n \nAs it stands, Calgary has a much tougher road ahead in attempting to win their first Cup since 1989. Their first-round matchup is against the one team Calgary hoped never to see come April: the Chicago Blackhawks.\n \nIn the season series, Calgary went 0-for-4 and never even came close in a contest, losing by no less than three goals in three of the four contests.\n \nA common statistic bandied about these days is Blackhawks goalie Khabibulin’s impressive record against the Flames in his career, a dominance that extends back into the mid-’90s.\n \nAlso citing the Flames’ weak power play, which went 0-for-43 in the last ten games of the regular season, many
