"When they start to go in they go in in bunches," Flames coach Glen Gulutzan said. "I think even if you go beyond the four games or back past we were creating some good chances, they just weren't going in.
"When we look at it from our stats, we haven't created as good of chances, but they are going in. We are going to keep pushing on the power play so we don't get complacent but they are just going in right now."
It's not just the power play that has seemingly had a significant makeover in the last few weeks. The penalty kill has mostly followed along the same path going from 29th in the league at 72.1-percent to an 87-5-perent clip since the middle of November.
It's no coincidence Calgary's record in that same span is 10-4-1, tops in the league when it comes to wins.
"Confidence goes a long way," Flames captain Mark Giordano professed. "We piled up a few wins and [Chad Johnson] came in early in the streak and made some big saves and got us a win we ground out and then confidence in different areas.
"I think our penalty kill has come a long way; I think our power play is starting to heat up. Special teams are huge in this league.
"I think our five-on-five play has been pretty good for a long time."
The return of Johnny Gaudreau didn't hurt, either. Since the wonder kid returned from his fractured finger, he has helped the power play, factoring in on two markers in the last two games.
Calgary has climbed to 25th overall in penalty kill and 27th in power play in the league - nothing to write home about, but still much improved than the first six-week stretch of the season.
Still plenty of work to do, though.
"Power play is doing well, and penalty kills is doing well, too," said Gaudreau. "How you win games is specialty teams, Gully has been telling us.
"We've been getting better and better, and it's something we have to keep improving on, too. "
