The 43-19-9 Calgary Flames return to action tonight against the 23-42-6 Seattle Kraken.
While the Kraken sit at 30th place in the standings, they’ve managed to put up a solid record since the deadline. 4-4-0 over eight games. .500 hockey is nothing to take lightly.
Facing the Kraken will be the Calgary Flames fresh off the first LA-Anaheim-San Jose California road trip sweep in franchise history. Tonight’s game will finish out the road trip before the Flames start a three game home stand over four days.
Lineups courtesy of Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
Gaudreau-Lindholm-Tkachuk Mangiapane-Backlund-Toffoli Dube-Lewis-Coleman Lucic-Carpenter-Ritchie
Hanifin-Andersson Mackey-Tanev Zadorov-Stone
Markstrom
The League’s Best Defence With only six goals against in their California trip, the Flames are slowly creeping up on Carolina for the title of “best defence….
Interesting to see both New York teams in the top five. You look at the Rangers blue line and wonder how they do it — a Hart candidate goalie and Gerard Gallant’s systems is a scary combination.
Puck drop is around 5:07 provided there isn’t 20 minutes of pregame ceremonies like last game.
Trevor Neufeld