Calgary Flames at Carolina Hurricanes [Game 45]

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			1:00 PM EST
Radio	Network		Arena		Network	Radio
960 AM CFAC	SN		PNC Arena		FS-CAR	99.9 FM WCMC
League	Value		Metric		Value	League
11th	59.1%		Points Percentage		54.5%	21st
22nd	14.67%		Net Power Play Percentage		14.18%	24th
21st	81.94%		Net Penalty Kill Percentage		81.31%	24th
21st	96.61%		Combined Special Teams Percentage		95.49%	23rd
19th	2.89		Goals for per Game (All Situations)		2.84	20th
13th	2.82		Goals against per Game (All Situations)		3.09	21st
13th	.14		Penalty +/- per Game (All Situations)		.77	1st
7th	52.23%		Shot Attempt Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		53.95%	2nd
6th	52.57%		Scoring Chance Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		53.91%	3rd
19th	100.27%		P.D.O. (5V5)		98.08%	28th
20th	7.27%		Shooting Percentage (5V5)		6.98%	24th
7th	93.00%		Save Percentage (5V5)		91.10%	29th
Data from Hockey-Reference.com and Natural Stat Trick
The Enemies’ Lair
Canes Country

The Calgary Flames southeastern trip continues as they take on the Carolina Hurricanes. The Flames have been very impressive thus far, taking it to the first place Tampa Bay Lightning and then beating the Florida panthers in a schedule loss. They’re going streaking as they say and will look to continue their recent run of dominance.

They’ll be doing that without Sean Monahan however who is out with illness. Monahan will be replaced by Sam Bennett while Andrew Mangiapane is back with the surprisingly effective tandem of Mark Jankowski and Garnet Hathaway. This is the first time they’ll play together on the Flames, but they were dominant in Stockton.

Mike Smith will start for the Flames tonight. He’s up against Scott Darling. Darling has been a bit of a disappointment for the Hurricanes, but they’re not necessarily worse for the ware and are still fighting for a playoff spot in the absurd Metropolitan division.

Puck drop will be at 1:05 P.M. M.S.T.

by Les Mavus