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Calgary Flames at Buffalo Sabres [Game #64 Thread]

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6 years ago

July 30, 2018

The Calgary Flames continue their disastrous road trip east as they head into the Niagara Center to take on the Buffalo Sabres. The road trip so far has been a near death blow for the Flames playoffs hopes as they as they have now lost six straight games. Their save percentage has been .880 in that time period, so they’ll switch things up from Joni Ortio to Jonas Hiller in an attempt to turn things around.

On the other side of the ice wait the Sabres who come into the season with just a slightly better record than the Flames with 58 points in 64 games to the Flames 56 points in 63 games. They’ll square off against Robin Lehner who has turned his season around, but hasn’t received any goal support from his team. Since the Flames last victory, Buffalo has 1.4 goals per game, so the Flames might actually get a better game in net than they’ve seen in the past.

The Flames playoff chances are down to .2 percent. Can Calgary stop the bleeding and prevent their playoff hopes from exsanguinating, or will tonight's game open their wounds even further? Some draft pick hopefuls might be hoping for the latter.

Calgary Flames Lineup

Left Wing	Center		Right Wing
Johnny Gaudreau	Sam Bennett		Michael Frolik
Micheal Ferland	Sean Monahan		Joe Colborne
Lance Bouma	Mikael Backlund		Garnet
Brandon Bollig	Matt Stajan		Josh Jooris
Left Defence		Right Defense
Mark Giordano		T.J. Brodie
Deryk Engelland		Dougie Hamilton
Jyrki Jokipakka		Jakub Nakladal
Goalies
Jonas Hiller
Joni Ortio

Buffalo Sabres Lineup

Left Wing	Center		Right Wing
Evander Kane	Jack Eichel		Sam Reinhart
Marcus Foligno	Johan Larsson		Brian Gionta
Daniel Catenacci	Cal O’Reilly		Zemgus Girgensons
Nicolas Deslauriers	David Legwand		Matt Moulson
Left Defence		Right Defense
Josh Gorges		Rasmus Ristolainen
Jake McCabe		Zach Bogosian
Carlo Colaiacovo		Mark Pysyk
Goalies
Robin Lehner
Chad Johnson


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Radio	Network	Arena	Network	Radio
960 AM CFAC	SNNW	First Niagra Center	MSG	550 AM WGR
League	Value	Metric	Value	League
28th	44.4%	Points Percentage	45.3%	26th
29th	15.94%	Power Play Percentage	19.49%	12nd
30th	72.94%	Penalty Kill Percentage	83.03%	8th
30th	88.88%	Combined Special Teams	102.52%	9th
25th	-.423	Goals +/- per 60 Minutes (All)	-.309	23rd
10th	2.6	Goals for per 60 Minutes (All)	2.3	26th
29st	3.1	Goals against per 60 Minutes (All)	2.6	15rd
27th	48.3%	Faceoff Percentage (All)	49.4%	22nd
2nd	1.858	Penalty +/- per 60 Minutes (All)	1.461	5th
25th	-6.13	Corsi +/- per 60 Minutes (5V5 – Score Adjusted)	-7.01	27th
23rd	-3.17	Fenwick +/- per 60 Minutes (5V5 – Score Adjusted)	-5.43	27th
19th	-1.25	Shot +/- per 60 Minutes (5V5 – Score Adjusted)	-3.24	26th
19th	-.92	Scoring Chance +/- per 60 Minutes (5V5 – Score Adjusted)	-1.41	22nd
17th	99.04%	P.D.O. (5V5)	95.05%	29th
7th	8.12%	Shooting Percentage (5V5)	6.18%	28th
30th	91.25%	Save Percentage (5V5)	92.46%	19th
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