Four games and neither team is playing in straight sets.
Calgary Flames coach Darryl Sutter welcomes some familiar faces when the core of his Stanley Cup-winning squads, the Los Angeles Kings, Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar and Jonathan Quick, visit Calgary. While the last two non-Tampa Bay Stanley Cup champions meet when the St. Louis Blues visit the Colorado Avalanche.
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Favorable Scoring Pairings
5:30 p.m., Canadian Tire Center, watch live on ESPN+
What might have looked like a miss game for goals last season actually has some potential for firepower thanks to the converted Philosophy of the Isles and the charge of the Sens. Ilya Sorokin remains a threat to turn this into a low score issue. , but now there is potential. Anders Lee, Brock Nelson and Anthony Beauvillier are tied for fourth in 5-on-5 goals as a line with nine, while Brady Tkachuk and Tim Stutzle would be second in that rank if they hadn’t traded the third member of the unit: They had six goals with Drake Batherson and now they have five with Claude Giroux.
8:30 p.m., United Center, watch live on ESPN+
Corsi’s law suggests the Hurricanes are going to embarrass the Blackhawks. That’s usually not the case when the matchup is leaning that far on paper, but this one is pretty lean: Hurricanes 70.08 Corsi For 60 (2nd in the league) and 41.83 Corsi Against for 60 (1st), Blackhawks 44.35 Corsi For by 60 (32°) and 63.89 Corsi Contra by 60 (30º). So he has arguably the best possession team in the NHL (okay, maybe it’s the Devils) facing the hands down worst.
St. Louis Blues in the Colorado Avalanche
9 p.m., Ball Arena, Watch live on ESPN+
The Blues have snapped out of their slump with a pair of victories, including over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday. The key is that they have not taken penalties. Exactly zero Blues were sent to the box in their victories over the Sharks and Knights, moving the Blues solely to first place in the NHL for fewest penalties taken by 60 (just ahead of the two winning teams, coincidentally ). Since the Avs have gotten by on their 39% power play and only rank 23rd in five-on-five scoring, the number of goals scored in this contest can be highly dependent on the refs.
Mid-tier fantasy forwards
Ryan O’Reilly, C, St. Louis Blues (55.7%): They’ve only played two games together, but already the line of O’Reilly, Josh Leivo and Brandon Saad has the most 5-on-5 goals on the team, which really tells us two things: the line is pretty good, and the Blues have been pretty bad in even strength.
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Stefan Noesen, W, Carolina Hurricanes (0.3%): With Teuvo Teravainen sidelined, Noesen was getting some regular top-six looks on top of the time he already spends in the top power-play unit.
Adam Ruzicka, C. Calgary Flames (5.6%): If Jonathan Huberdeau remains out, Ruzicka remains his drop-in replacement in the top lane and on the top power play.
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Mid Tier Fantasy Defenses
Matt Roy, D, Los Angeles Kings (41.8%): Averaging 1.9 fantasy points per game, Roy has an assist in two of his last four.
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Jake Sanderson, D, Ottawa Senators (11.9%): With Thomas Chabot sidelined for the week, keep Sanderson active for his use of the power play.
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goalkeepers
Jordan Binnington, G, St. Louis Blues (72.8%): If anything can stifle Avs’ attack, it’s not giving them an advantage. That’s the Blues’ specialty this season, so Binnington could get a chance to deflect shots all else being equal.
Antti Raanta or Pyotr Kochetkov, G, Carolina Hurricanes (14.4% and 0.7%): Frederik Andersen is still injured, so this just depends on whether the Canes want to give Raanta extra starts or continue to rotate with Kochetkov. Either way, there’s a chance the goalie won’t face a single shot based on both teams’ possession metrics.
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