Calgary Flames at Colorado Avalanche [Game 23]

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			8:00 PM MST
Radio	Network		Arena		Network	Radio
960 AM CFAC	SN		Pepsi Center		ALT	950 AM KRWZ
League	Value		Metric		Value	League
14th	56.8%		Points Percentage		57.1%	11th
12th	18.18%		Net Power Play Percentage		15.91%	15th
28th	71.43%		Net Penalty Kill Percentage		71.25%	30th
23rd	89.61%		Combined Special Teams Percentage		87.16%	28th
13th	3.00		Goals for per Game (All Situations)		3.38	6th
22nd	3.18		Goals against per Game (All Situations)		3.24	23rd
17th	.00		Penalty +/- per Game (All Situations)		.38	7th
10th	51.63%		Shot Attempt Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		47.22%	27th
6th	52.75%		Scoring Chance Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		48.26%	20th
17th	100.02%		P.D.O. (5V5)		99.92%	18th
26th	6.85%		Shooting Percentage (5V5)		8.62%	9th
5th	93.17%		Save Percentage (5V5)		91.30%	23rd
Data from Hockey-Reference.com and Natural Stat Trick
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The Calgary Flames road trip comes to an end in Denver as they take on the Colorado Avalanche. The Avalanche somehow are ahead of the Flames in points percentage and to be quite frank it’s really befuddling as they aren’t really a hockey team that does anything well. Their power play is okay and they’re good at drawing penalties. One might say that it’s their bread and butter, thus if the Flames stay out of the box they should be able to pick up the two points.

Matt Bartkowski is in for Brett Kulak for reasons unknown. Bartkowski is awful. Kris Versteeg has been scratched for Matt Stajan. While Stajan deserves to be in the lineup, it should be at the expense of Troy Brouwer, Curtis Lazar, Mark Jankowski, or Sam Bennett who have all been awful and not Versteeg who has been mediocre.

David Rittich will pick up his first N.H.L. start. Going from undrafted to starting an N.H.L. game in net is quite the feat and hopefully his feel good story can continue after tonight. It would be quite difficult for him to do any worse than Eddie Lack who had the fourth-worst five-on-five save percentage of any goalie that registered a single minute this season.

Puck drop is at 8:05 P.M. See you there!

by Les Mavus