- 1 Calgary Flames vs Anaheim Ducks: 50 goals allowed and a back-to-back for the Ducks in the Saddledome
- 2 Calgary Flames: 5-3 at home, 1-4 on the road and Cooley out week-to-week
- 3 Anaheim Ducks: 1-6-1 in eight games and a penalty kill at 75.0%
- 4 Free NHL Prediction: Calgary Flames vs Anaheim Ducks
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Calgary Flames vs Anaheim Ducks: 50 goals allowed and a back-to-back for the Ducks in the Saddledome 
Anaheim’s goaltending numbers explain most of its month. Lukas Dostal has an .872 save percentage, the Ducks have allowed 50 goals, 28th in the league, and they gave up 13 in two games in late October: a 6-5 overtime loss to Vancouver and a 7-6 loss to Buffalo.
Those results were part of a run of one win in eight games, 1-6-1, and the one win was a 5-4 comeback against Philadelphia on 24 October in which Leo Carlsson scored and set up the winner. Carlsson leads the team with 13 points through that game, with 10 of them assists.
Calgary hosts the Ducks at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Friday 6 November, puck drop 8:00pm ET. It’s the third meeting of the season between the teams, and they’ve split the first two: Anaheim won 4-2 on 10 October, and Calgary answered with a 4-2 win on 13 October, its first victory of the season after an 0-5 start.
The schedule tilts toward the home team. Anaheim plays in Vancouver on Tuesday and in Edmonton on Thursday, then has to fly to Calgary for the second night of a back-to-back. The Flames finish a road swing in San Jose on Monday and Seattle on Wednesday, then have Thursday off before coming home.
Calgary isn’t in great health itself, and this game may come down to which team’s goalie holds up. The Flames lost Devin Cooley, their best goalie so far, to injured reserve on 30 October, and Dustin Wolf’s numbers don’t inspire much confidence. That’s why I’d come at this game through the home record rather than the goaltending.
Calgary Flames: 5-3 at home, 1-4 on the road and Cooley out week-to-week 
Ryan Huska’s team has turned its season around almost entirely in its own building. After that 0-5 start the Flames won six of eight, and at the end of October they were 5-3 at home and 1-4 on the road, with a 4-0 loss in Edmonton as their last road game before the trip to Colorado.
The clearest example came on 30 October, when Calgary beat Seattle 6-2 at the Saddledome. Matt Coronato had a goal and three assists, Joel Farabee had a goal and two assists, and Morgan Frost and Matvei Gridin also scored. Calgary then lost 5-2 in Colorado the next night.
Coronato’s four points led the team that night. Frost has now scored against both Seattle and Anaheim, and Gridin’s goal gave Huska another scorer from outside his top pair.
Cooley’s injury is the part that could undo all of it. He was hurt in a collision at Edmonton on 28 October and is listed as week-to-week with a lower-body injury, which leaves the crease to Wolf and recent call-up Arsenii Sergeev. Wolf’s save percentage was .839 at the end of October.
Wolf has shown he can do it against this opponent, though. He stopped 23 of 25 shots in the 4-2 win on 13 October, a .920 night, with goals from Aydar Suniev, Martin Pospisil, Yegor Sharangovich and Adam Klapka. He also made 21 saves in the 6-2 win over Seattle.
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Anaheim Ducks: 1-6-1 in eight games and a penalty kill at 75.0% 
The Ducks can score. They put up 11 goals in the two losses to Vancouver and Buffalo, and they’ve had a young group producing all month: Beckett Sennecke scored in the 13 October game and again on the power play against Philadelphia, and Cutter Gauthier assisted on Carlsson’s goal in that win.
What they can’t do is keep the puck out of the net. Against Vancouver they led by three goals with under eight minutes left and lost in overtime. Two nights later Thompson’s hat trick beat them 7-6 at Honda Center. Before that they’d lost 4-2 to Boston on 17 October during a five-game losing streak.
The penalty kill sits at 75.0%, and that’s been a steady source of trouble. Calgary scored six against Seattle on 30 October, so a team killing only three of four penalties can’t afford to hand the Flames many extra chances.
Dostal made 28 saves against Philadelphia and 32 of 35 in the 13 October loss, so he’s capable of keeping Anaheim in games. Ville Husso was the winner in the first meeting with Calgary, stopping 27 of 29, and Laurent Brossoit was named to start against Ottawa on Sunday. With three goalies used in a short stretch and a back-to-back on the schedule, Friday’s starter is unlikely to be the one who played in Edmonton.
The travel adds to all of that. Thursday’s game in Edmonton is against the Pacific leaders, a team that beat Anaheim 5-2 on 7 October and has the league’s second-best offense at 4.21 goals a game. Whatever the Ducks have left after that will have to carry them through Friday on a short flight and a quick turnaround.
Probable lineup Calgary Flames: Not announced at time of publication
Probable lineup Anaheim Ducks: Not announced at time of publication
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Our prediction: Calgary Flames to win
No prices had been posted for Friday at the time of writing. Check that the Calgary moneyline is at 1.45 or better before playing it, which should be within reach for a team with this record.
I’m taking the Flames because of where the game is and when it’s being played. Calgary was 5-3 at home at the end of October, it has a day off before Friday, and Anaheim will be on the second night of a back-to-back after facing Edmonton, with 50 goals allowed and a 75.0% penalty kill behind it.
Calgary’s goaltending keeps this from being a stronger position: Wolf at .839 is a real risk, and Anaheim scored 11 goals in two October losses. Over 60 minutes, though, the fresher team at home with its best run of form in the building should take this one.
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