Colorado Avalanche at Calgary Flames: game preview
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stat
CalgaryFlames2026-27: 0-3-0 · 0 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 29thForty-four points apart last season
Colorado finished last season 1st in the league on 121 points. Calgary finished 29th on 77, and the 2025-26 season series went COL 3-0-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 149
Across 148 completed games, Colorado lead the head-to-head 79-57-12.
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 30 Mar 2026, Colorado were 1st in the league and Calgary 29th. By 14 Apr 2026 it was 1st and 29th.
Colorado out-attempted Calgary 354 to 291
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Colorado Avalanche
Calgary Flames
Colorado 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: 2 games for Colorado, 3 for Calgary. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Colorado, 10 for Calgary.
2025-26: 82 games for Colorado, 82 for Calgary.
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
Colorado
Small sampleCalgary
Small sampleNathan MacKinnon has 8 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Nathan MacKinnon vs Calgary · game by game
See all: Nathan MacKinnon vs Calgary · game by game →Dustin Wolf has been the difference
Dustin Wolf faced 120 shots across 4 appearances against Colorado and conceded 11, a .908 save percentage against a season figure of .797. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Scott Wedgewood
See all: Scott Wedgewood →COL · 31-6-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 5 Apr
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Mackenzie Blackwood .912 (2 GP)
Full game logDustin Wolf
See all: Dustin Wolf →CGY · 0-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Apr
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Devin Cooley .880 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.2 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
Colorado7.002.503.682.48
Calgary1.005.332.593.16Goals 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
Colorado · injuries
Calgary · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LD Keaton Middleton, LD Wyatt Aamodt, RW/LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and LW Tristen Nielsen on waivers.
Placed D Keaton Middleton, D Wyatt Aamodt, LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and G Mads Sogaard Nielsen on waivers.
Reassigned Ds Domenick Fensore, Saige Weinstein and Christian Wolanin to Colorado (AHL).
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.
Colorado · 2026 draft
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