During our Fan 960 post-game show, colleague Mike Rogers mentioned that had Rene Bolurque remained in Chicago he’s be lost with the Blackhawk having so man top scorers.

   True, but when GM Darryl Sutter preyed him away from Chicago as a free agent in July, the guessing was he’d be lost among Flame snipers.

   The anticipation being that Iginla, Cammalleri, Langkow, Bertuzzi, Phaneuf and perhaps Matthew Lombardi would be the Flame goal scoring leaders.

   Well, after Bourque’s first NHL ‘hat” or “boot” trick on Saturday, he now has more goals than all of the above except Iginla and he’s closing in on the Flames perrenial leading sniper.

    Bourque now has 14 goals, 2 less than Iginla and 2 away from matching his career best from the ’05-06 campaign when he scored 16 times in 77 games for the Hawks as a rookie.

    The 27-year-old Bourque, getting comfortable in his new surroundings and Mike Keenan’s constant line juggling, has 8 goals in the last 9 outtings.

   The Flames now have 6 players on pace to score 20-or-more goals.  The last time the club had many 20-or-more goal men was 1993-94.

   The scoring balance has helped propel the Flames to the top of the NW Division standings. A couple of divisional challenges to round out the old year.  Minnesota on Monday and Edmonton on New Year’s Eve.

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