Thursday, March 3, 2011

Is Edmonton Helping Calgary?

I've noticed lately in a lot of the Flames games, the opposition has played the night before in Edmonton. I thought I would look more into it and decided to look at all the games where the opponent plays Edmonton first then travels to Calgary for their next game.

Here is what I found.


Edmonton has a record of 2-10-1 in these games. They are outscored by an average of 3.7-1.8, almost 2 goals, while shots are fairly close 30.6-29.0.

Calgary has a record of 9-2-2 in the next game for those teams. Flames outscore those opponents by 3.6-2.4. They out shoot the opposition by an average of 31.2-26.5.

After the 2 games the Oilers have won, the Flames also won in the next game.

Flames have 3 shutouts of the 13 games so far. The average goals for by the opponents against Edmonton is 4.0.


Friday is the last of these type of games. Oilers won vs Columbus, Thursday 4-2.

What will the outcome of the Flames/BlueJackets game be Friday?