Calgary Flames at Arizona Coyotes [Game 62]

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			7:00 PM EST
Radio	Network		Arena		Network	Radio
960 AM CFAC	SN		Gila River Arena		FS-AZ	98.7 FM KMVP
League	Value		Metric		Value	League
18th	56.6%		Points Percentage		37.3%	31st
21st	15.94%		Net Power Play Percentage		13.71%	26th
23rd	80.79%		Net Penalty Kill Percentage		80.65%	24th
23rd	96.73%		Combined Special Teams Percentage		94.36%	26th
21st	2.82		Goals for per Game (All Situations)		2.42	30th
17th	2.98		Goals against per Game (All Situations)		3.34	29th
14th	.07		Penalty +/- per Game (All Situations)		.34	4th
7th	52.13%		Shot Attempt Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		46.77%	28th
7th	52.47%		Scoring Chance Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		46.59%	27th
17th	99.73%		P.D.O. (5V5)		98.79%	26th
22nd	7.19%		Shooting Percentage (5V5)		6.98%	25th
13th	92.54%		Save Percentage (5V5)		91.81%	24th
Data from Hockey-Reference.com and Natural Stat Trick
The Enemies’ Lair
Five For Howling

The Calgary Flames have made the short trek from Las Vegas to Phoenix as they take on the Arizona Coyotes for their second game in two nights. The trip to Nevada was not kind to the Flames – they were blitzed by a final of seven to three as David Rittich had his worst game as an N.H.L. goalie. They'll go from taking on the best team in the conference to the worst tonight, so hopefully they fair better.

The Flames will attempt to end their three game losing streak and work back into a playoff spot tonight. Arizona is the team to do it against as they're bad in pretty much every aspect of hockey right now. With that being said, the Flames are the tired team going into a rested opponent and that generally favours the rested team.

Jon Gillies will get the start in net tonight as he spells Rittich. The Coyotes will roll with Antti Raanta. Arizona just went out and acquired Darcy Keumper for Scott Wedgewood and Tobias Rieder as they've yet to re-sign Raanta, but Raanta is expected to retain his starting spot.

by Les Mavus