Calgary Flames at Boston Bruins [Game 57]

			-AT-
			5:00 PM MST
Radio	Network		Arena		Network	Radio
960 AM CFAC	SN		TD Garden		NESN	98.5 FM WBZ
League	Value		Metric		Value	League
13th	58.9%		Points Percentage		70.4%	2nd
24th	14.36%		Net Power Play Percentage		18.56%	8th
24th	81.18%		Net Penalty Kill Percentage		88.13%	2nd
25th	95.54%		Combined Special Teams Percentage		106.69%	3rd
21st	2.84		Goals for per Game (All Situations)		3.33	4th
13th	2.84		Goals against per Game (All Situations)		2.43	2nd
17th	.04		Penalty +/- per Game (All Situations)		.13	11th
5th	52.42%		Shot Attempt Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		54.39%	1st
6th	52.88%		Scoring Chance Percentage (5V5 Score Adjusted)		55.08%	1st
15th	100.28%		P.D.O. (5V5)		101.57%	4th
21st	7.24%		Shooting Percentage (5V5)		8.34%	7th
7th	93.04%		Save Percentage (5V5)		93.23%	3rd
Data from Hockey-Reference.com and Natural Stat Trick
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The Calgary Flames eastern road trip continues as they take on the second best team by points percentage in the Boston Bruins. Calgary is coming off of a gutty, incredible win where it was unfortunate that they didn’t win by more. They had downed the New York Islanders by a score of three to two, but dominated them at even strength.

Boston is going to be a considerably tougher task than the Islanders however. The Bruins are the top possession team in the league in just about every metric. The Flames aren't too far behind them in that aspect, but they've had much better puck luck than the Flames have had so far this season. In addition to all of this, they have tremendous special teams as opposed to the Flames who have tremendously awful special teams.

David Rittich gets the call tonight as he replaces the injured Mike smith. He’ll be up against Tuukka Rask. It’s going to be a tough task for Rittich against this stellar Bruins team – if he weathers this one well it would be a great sign of things to come for the Flames.

Puck drop is at 5:05 P.M. M.S.T. and can be found on Sportsnet.

by Les Mavus