It’s one of the great Flame mysteries.  Why does Jarome Iginla get off to slow scoring starts?

  Every season the players report to camp, the captain is always one of the top 5 in conditioning and in a number of years #1.  So its not a conditioning issue that his October’s see him score so few goals.

  Iginla, now age 32, can’t explain it, but he was pleased when Nov. 1 hit.  “Now that the calendar has turned from October to November hopefully things will change”, noted the captain prior to the team’s first Nov. game in Dallas.

  They did change. He promptly responded with a 2-goal game on including the GWG in OT.

  He’s scored at least one goal in 6 of the 7 games the Flames have played in the second last month of the year.  That’s 8 goals and a total of 12 for the season.

  With the Flames hitting the 20-game mark Thursday hosting Chicago, Iginla’s 12 goals represent the second best start of his 14-year career. The only season better was his best.  In the 2001-02 season the RW has 18 goals after 20 games on his way to an NHL leading 52.

  Each of the past 4 seasons Iginla has had 11 goals after 20 games including the ’07-08 campaign when he scored 50 goals for a second time.  In ’03-04, the year the Flames went to the Cup final, the captain had only 4 goals after 20 games and ended with 41 plus a league leading 13 more in the playoffs.

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