Calgary Flames (31-35-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (33-26-16, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Paradise, Nevada; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Calgary Flames visit the Vegas Golden Knights looking to stop a three-game road slide.<\/p>\n
Vegas has an 11-5-5 record in Pacific Division play and a 33-26-16 record overall. The Golden Knights have a 32-6-10 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Calgary has a 31-35-8 record overall and a 12-7-3 record in Pacific Division games. The Flames are 22-7-3 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The teams play Thursday for the fourth time this season. The Flames won the previous matchup 6-3. Mikael Backlund scored two goals in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Tomas Hertl has scored 24 goals with 31 assists for the Golden Knights. Pavel Dorofeyev has four goals and five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Backlund has 16 goals and 24 assists for the Flames. Morgan Frost has scored four goals and added two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Golden Knights: 4-4-2, averaging 2.6 goals, 4.1 assists, 4.5 penalties and 11.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Flames: 6-3-1, averaging 3.1 goals, 5.2 assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Golden Knights: William Karlsson: out (lower body), Carter Hart: out (leg), Jonas Rondbjerg: out (lower body).<\/p>\n
Flames: Samuel Honzek: out for season (upper body), Jonathan Huberdeau: out for season (hip), Jake Bean: out (undisclosed), Yan Kuznetsov: day to day (upper-body), Joel Hanley: out (upper-body), Connor Zary: day to day (upper body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Calgary Flames (31-35-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Vegas Golden Knights (33-26-16, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-534377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}