The Calgary Flames have gone from a team that couldn’t buy a stop to one sitting atop the NHL in a telling category.
After stumbling out of the gate with five straight losses, Calgary has steadied itself, and the biggest shift has come in net. According to a recent post from Sportsnet Stats, the Flames own the league’s best team save percentage since that 0-5-0 start.
Despite tonight's loss, #Flames own the NHL's best save percentage (.916) since beginning the season 0-5-0
- Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) November 5, 2026
That’s a sharp turn for a club that was getting buried early. In its first five games, Calgary gave up 27 goals, including a rough seven-goal outing against the Colorado Avalanche. The defensive questions were obvious, but the goaltending wasn’t giving the team much help either.
The last 11 games have looked very different. Calgary has gone 7-3-1 in that span, and the Flames have allowed 28 goals while getting key work from both Dustin Wolf and Devin Cooley.
Cooley, in particular, made a strong impression during a four-start run in which he won every game and picked up NHL Second Star of the Week honours. Over that stretch, he turned aside 127 of 133 shots, which worked out to a .955 save percentage.
Wolf has also started to settle in after a tough opening stretch. In his most recent start, he stopped 27 of 29 shots in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Seattle Kraken.
None of that means the Flames are out of the woods. Their offence has still been up and down, and a hot stretch from the goalies doesn’t erase what happened in those first five games.
But the numbers in Calgary’s crease are hard to ignore. For a team that opened 0-5-0 and had major concerns in goal, leading the NHL in save percentage since that start is a major turnaround.
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