The Florida Panthers (10-8-3, 23 points, 5th Atlantic) will be playing the second part of a back-to-back on Tuesday when paying a visit to Calgary to play the Calgary Flames (9-9-3, 21 points T-5th Pacific), after playing on the road Monday night against the Edmonton Oilers. Prior to its game on Monday with Edmonton, Florida was defeated by the St. Louis Blues 5-4 and has lost four of the last five. Calgary has lost each of its last three after falling to the Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 on Saturday. Aleksander Barkov and Anthony Duclair are out for Florida, wow Oliver Kylington is out for Calgary .
The Florida Panthers are allowing an average of 3.33 goals per game which is 20th in the NHL. Florida is allowing opponents to average 31.8 shots per game which is 16th. The Panthers have a poor penalty-kill unit that is holding opponents scoreless only 76.2% of the time Florida is short-handed, which is 22nd. Florida has one shutout victory this season. Spencer Knight was the backup to start the season but has now appeared in the same number of games as Sergei Bobrovsky. Knight is 6-3-2 with a 2.63 goals-against average and .916 save percentage. Knight has Florida's only shutout this season.
Florida is scoring an average of 3.43 goals per game which is the 11th highest in the NHL. The Panthers average the most shots in the NHL at 40.2 per game. Florida's power play needs Improvement as the Panthers are scoring o nly 19.8% of the time with the man advantage, which is 21st. Carter Verhaeghe has scored 12 goals to lead Florida and Matthew Tkachuk is second with 9. Tkachuk has a team best 18 assists while Brandon Montour is second with 15. Tkachuk is the points leader with 27 and Montour is second with 19. Florida has scored 16 goals on the power play in 21 games