The Calgary Flames (19-14-9, 47 points, 4th Pacific) are on the road Thursday to play the St Louis Blues (21-18-3, 45 points, 4th Central). Calgary lost to the Blues 4-3 in the first of two games over a three-day period with St Louis, on Tuesday in overtime. Calgary has lost each of its last two and three of the last four. Robert Thomas scored the winning goal for St Louis in the extra period to beat Calgary. The Blues have won two straight and four of the last five. Calgary will play without Oliver Kylington and Brett Ritchie. St Louis will play without Robert Bortuzzo, Logan Brown, Torey Krug, Ryan O'Reilly, Scott Perunovich and Vladimir Tarasenko,
The Calgary Flames are scoring an average of 3.02 goals per game which is only 21st in the NHL. The Flames are taking an average of 34.8 shots per game which is fourth best but the power play for Calgary is 24th, scoring just 19.7% of the time the Flames have the man advantage. The leading goal scorer for Calgary is Nazem Kadri with 16, while Tyler Toffoli is second with 15 goals. Elias Lindholm is the leader in assists with 24 and Rasmus Andersson is second with 22. The leader in points is Lindholm with 37 and Toffoli is second with 34. Calgary has scored 26 goals on the power play in 42 games.
Calgary is slightly higher than average in goals allowed at 2.95 per game which is 15th. The Flames are allowing an average of 27.8 shots per game which is fourth best in the NHL. Calgary's penalty kill unit is successf ully holding opponents scoreless 81.9% of the time the Flames are short-handed which is 7th best in hockey. Jacob Markstrom is 13-10-5 with a 2.84 goals against average and .893 save percentage in 28 appearances between the pipes for Calgary.