CALGARY — The Calgary Flames are on the cusp of what almost certainly looks like a lost season.

And the latest team to help put them there is a perfect example of how the Flames should proceed from here.

A 2-1 overtime loss to the Montreal Canadiens Wednesday extended the Flames losing skid to seven, giving them just three points in their opening eight games.

Only 10 teams in the last 40 years have started that poorly and made the playoffs.

It’s time to start looking at what a proper rebuild can look like, and there’s no better example right now than Montreal.

The difference in Wednesday’s highly entertaining affair was a world-class play by Ivan Demidov that set up Mike Matheson’s winner.

Two nights earlier another gritty outing by the Flames was doused by a Mark Scheifele finish th

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