Calgary Flames at Dallas Stars: game preview
CalgaryFlames2026-27: 0-3-0 · 0 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 29that
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdThirty-five points apart last season
Calgary finished last season 29th in the league on 77 points. Dallas finished 3rd on 112.
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Meeting number 129
Across 128 completed games, Dallas lead the head-to-head 72-36-20.
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 22 Nov 2025, Calgary were 31st in the league and Dallas 3rd. By 7 Apr 2026 it was 30th and 3rd.
Dallas out-attempted Calgary 178 to 159
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Calgary Flames
Dallas Stars
Dallas 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, 3 for Dallas. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Calgary, 10 for Dallas.
2025-26: 82 games for Calgary, 82 for Dallas.
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 sampleDallas
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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 27 Mar
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Mar
No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 5.8 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
Calgary1.005.332.593.16
Dallas2.002.003.402.76Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
Calgary · injuries
Dallas · 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.
Assigned D Cameron Bertucci to Texas (AHL).
Placed F Matt Duchene on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Sept. 29. Recalled Fs Arttu Hyry and Colin Blackwell from Texas (AHL).
Signed G Casey DeSmith to a two-year contract.
Calgary · 2026 draft
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