In their final game before the Christmas break, the Calgary Flames had a chance to return to being a .500 team. They had to face off against the Los Angeles Kings to do so, and unfortunately, they’ll spend Christmas with a loss as their last result.
Notes and discussion from the chart are all below, read on to see it all!
Game events
- The two teams were seemingly fairly matched on the traditional stat counts, both teams reached 30+ shots, 25+ blocks, 30+ faceoff wins, and all stats were close between them.
Goals
| Goal | Assists | Time | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quinton Byfield | Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar | 1:01 | 1st | CGY 0 – 1 LAK |
| Rasmus Andersson | Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane | 2:47 | 1st | CGY 1 – 1 LAK |
| Pierre-Luc Dubois | Jordan Spence, Phillip Danault | 15:20 | 1st | CGY 1 – 2 LAK |
| Blake Coleman (SHG) | Yegor Sharangovich | 4:01 | 2nd | CGY 2 – 2 LAK |
| Alex Laferriere | Drew Doughty, Mikey Anderson | 6:28 | 2nd | CGY 2 – 3 LAK |
| Trevor Moore | Matt Roy | 9:57 | 2nd | CGY 2 – 4 LAK |
| Blake Coleman (PPG) | Adam Ruzicka, MacKenzie Weegar | 7:18 | 3rd | CGY 3 – 4 LAK |
| Quinton Byfield | Adrian Kempe, Anze Kopitar | 19:00 | 3rd | CGY 3 – 5 LAK |
- Blake Coleman is on a special teams tear right now and he’s one of their best players at the moment.
- The Flames never led in the game, but were able to tie the game up twice before the Kings got away for good.
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All situations Corsi
- Despite the shot differential being close, the Kings were much better at overall shot attempts.
- The Kings had more to start the game, and it was only when the Flames were trailing that they generated more shot attempts for themselves. Essentially, score effects saw the Flames shoot way more in the third period compared to the Kings, but really L.A. had the upper hand despite the close number between them.
- The Flames were quite unstructured in their shooting, with shots from all over the offensive zone.
- Contrast this to the Kings, where the bulk of their changes were actually right in the slot in the high-danger areas.
5v5 Corsi
- At 5v5, the Kings dominated. Yes, a lot of the game was not played at 5v5, and the Flames’ power play kept it closer, but the even strength game was entirely won by L.A and their four 5v5 goals would have been enough to beat the Flames as-is.
- Did the Flames even shoot at 5v5? This shot location chart is void of quality attempts from Calgary at 5v5.
- The Kings put on a 5v5 clinic.
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