The Flames' warmup was a complete trainwreck

There's warmup, warmies, warm-ups, and whatever the hell this is.

It's been anything but smooth sailing the past couple weeks for the free-falling Flames, and it looks like we've officially reached the almost-comical stage of Calgary's struggles as evident by the team's absolutely ridiculous performance in their pre-game twirl on Monday.

Hoping to avoid getting pounded by the lowly Ottawa Senators for the second time in three games — which, spoiler, didn't happen — the Flames hit the ice in body but never really in mind, as an absurd and unfortunate sequence of brain farts, errors and bad luck soiled the team's warmup and set the tone for another embarrassing L.

First, we have defenceman Juuso Valimaki and goaltender David Rittich just unnecessarily bumping into each other and carrying on with their respective days. Then, the camera ever-so-subtly spots Milan Lucic taking a seat in the corner after catching a rut and bailing head-first into the boards.

Rasmus Andersson and Nikita Nesterov then brainlessly collided in the neutral zone, with both hitting the deck and landing in a pile of mildly scattered pucks, before a scary incident capped a nightmarish 12-minute stretch for Calgary with Johnny Gaudreau launching a careless backhander straight into the face of bucketless linemate Sean Monahan, who was shaken up and had to leave the ice.

The complete circus predictably carried over into the game as the Flames laid an egg straight from the get-go, losing 5-1 while producing a plethora of defensive blunders and getting chewed up in battles all over the ice.

The Flames, who have dropped six of their last eight contests, including a pair of brutal losses to the Sens and a 7-1 L to the Oilers, need to figure it out pretty, pretty soon.

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