The Flames suffered another crippling blow to their playoff aspirations on Friday, dropping horrific 7-4 decision to the San Jose Sharks that had a lot of the hallmarks of a bad Flames loss this season. A blown lead. Poor goaltending. Poor special teams. The Backlund line getting PDOd.



If you were looking for the most unedifying sequence of the night, well there were a lot that you could pick. My personal choice would be a 45 second 5-on-3 in which the Flames seemed entirely unaware that they were permitted to move in order to create a shot. Here it is, in all its glory. Such as it is.



A few things worth noticing in here:



Dougie Hamilton and Mark Giordano never flip sides to enable one timers.



Calgary has three left-handed forwards, which means that Johnny Gaudreau is playing on the left side of the ice, unable to one-time a puck on a back door play and facing a tougher angle to make a back door pass.



Once the Flames are set up, Sean Monahan...