Calgary Flames at Boston Bruins: game preview
CalgaryFlames2026-27: 0-3-0 · 0 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 29that
BostonBruins2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 45-27-10 · 100 pts · 8thTwenty-three points apart last season
Calgary finished last season 29th in the league on 77 points. Boston finished 8th on 100.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 87
Across 86 completed games, Boston lead the head-to-head 47-30-9.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 29 Dec 2025, Calgary were 28th in the league and Boston 18th. By 8 Jan 2026 it was 30th and 17th.
Boston out-attempted Calgary 125 to 106
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Calgary Flames
Boston Bruins
Boston have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Calgary, 4 for Boston. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Calgary, 10 for Boston.
2025-26: 82 games for Calgary, 82 for Boston.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Calgary
Small sampleBoston
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Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Calgary crease
CGY · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Mar
No appearances against Boston in the last meetings.
Boston crease
BOS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Mar
No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
2 on the injury lists
Calgary · injuries
Boston · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed D Brayden Pachal and C Connor Zary on waivers.
Waived F Alex Nylander.
Assigned Fs Andrew Basha, Will Dineen and Tyson Gross, Ds Hunter Brzustewicz and Axel Hurtig and G Arsenii Sergeev to Calgary (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Calgary Fs Dryden Hunt, Ben Jones, Rory Kerins, Sam Morton and William Stromgren and Ds Michael Benning, Andreas Englund and Jake Livingstone.
Reinstated C Matthew Poitras from injured reserve.
Placed RW Michael Eyssimont on waivers.
Placed D Henri Jokiharju on waivers. Placed C Matthew Poitras on injured reserve.
Calgary · 2026 draft
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