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Early look · NHL 2026-27

St. Louis Blues at Calgary Flames: game preview

Puck drop21 Mar · 8:00 PM ET
VenueScotiabank Saddledome
All-time meetings164 completed
BasisLast 5 meetings + 2025-26
The thesis

Nine points apart last season

St. Louis finished last season 22nd in the league on 86 points. Calgary finished 29th on 77.

Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.

Head-to-head

Meeting number 165

Across 164 completed games, St. Louis lead the head-to-head 88-61-15.

All-time record88-61-15St. Louis's record in the series
Meetings played164This is number 165
2025-26 series—
Last 54-1St. Louis
DateResultShotsPower playWinner
18 Mar 2026STL 1 – CGY 2 SO——CGY
11 Nov 2025CGY 2 – STL 3——STL
11 Oct 2025STL 4 – CGY 2——STL
16 Jan 2025CGY 1 – STL 4——STL
14 Jan 2025CGY 1 – STL 2——STL
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The table on each 2025-26 meeting night

DateSt. LouisCalgary
11 Oct 20251-1-0 · 2 pts22nd1-2-0 · 2 pts27th
11 Nov 20256-8-3 · 15 pts29th4-12-2 · 10 pts32nd
18 Mar 202627-30-11 · 65 pts28th27-34-7 · 61 pts31st

League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 11 Oct 2025, St. Louis were 22nd in the league and Calgary 27th. By 18 Mar 2026 it was 28th and 31st.


Where the shots come from · last 5 meetings

Calgary out-attempted St. Louis 189 to 158

Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.

St. Louis Blues

158 att · 85 on goal · 8 G · 9.4%
Crease15 att · 1 G
Slot68 att · 5 G
Wing41 att · 2 G
Point26 att · 0 G
Neutral zone8 att · 0 G

Calgary Flames

189 att · 100 on goal · 5 G · 5.0%
Crease11 att · 0 G
Slot63 att · 2 G
Wing75 att · 2 G
Point34 att · 1 G
Neutral zone6 att · 0 G
GoalOn goalMissedBlocked

Expected goals

St. Louis 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.

St. LouisCalgary
2.69xG for per game2.54
3.33xG against per game3.38
44.7%xG share42.9%
−1.1FinishingGoals minus expected goals−4.6
−0.0GoaltendingExpected goals against minus goals allowed−5.9

This season: 3 games for St. Louis, 3 for Calgary. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.

Every team’s xG →


Special teams

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

St. Louis

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2712.5%
Power play · 2025-2617.6% · 26th
Power play · last 5 meetings—
Penalty kill · 2026-2790.0%
Penalty kill · 2025-2676.7% · 25th
Faceoffs · 2026-2744.6% · 83/186
Drawn · 2026-278 (2.67/gm)
Drawn · last meetings0 (0.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2710 (3.33/gm)
PP goals · last meetings0

Calgary

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2740.0%
Power play · 2025-2616.2% · 31st
Power play · last 5 meetings—
Penalty kill · 2026-2790.0%
Penalty kill · 2025-2680.4% · 12th
Faceoffs · 2026-2750.3% · 90/179
Drawn · 2026-275 (1.67/gm)
Drawn · last meetings0 (0.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2710 (3.33/gm)
PP goals · last meetings0

Skaters

Skaters to watch

Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.

PlayerGPGAPP/GP
83Mason McTavish32020.67
15Dalibor Dvorsky32020.67
86Joel Farabee30220.67
22Ryan Strome31010.33
16Morgan Frost31010.33
Points leaders
PlayerGPGAPP/GP
55Colton Parayko30110.33
19Zayne Parekh30110.33
44Joel Hanley10000.00
55Jake Middleton30000.00
Defencemen stats

Goaltending

Who has stopped this matchup

Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.

Expected startersAn estimate until the teams confirmEvery game tonight →

Expected starter after their game on 20 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

Expected starter after their game on 19 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

St. Louis crease

STL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Mar

Joel Hofer.9552 GP · 1-1-0 · GSAx +2.8
Jordan Binnington.8331 GP · 0-1-0 · GSAx −2.5

No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.

Calgary crease

CGY · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Mar

Dustin Wolf.7972 GP · 0-2-0 · GSAx −5.5
Devin Cooley.8801 GP · 0-1-0 · GSAx −0.1

No appearances against St. Louis in the last meetings.


Totals

Scoring rates point to about 5.9 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

18 Mar 20263 · STL 1–2 CGY
11 Nov 20255 · CGY 2–3 STL
11 Oct 20256 · STL 4–2 CGY
16 Jan 20255 · CGY 1–4 STL
14 Jan 20253 · CGY 1–2 STL

Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.

Scoring rates

Team26-27 GF26-27 GA25-26 GF25-26 GA
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15
Calgary1.005.332.593.16

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.

Scoring rates suggest5.9Goals in this game
Last 5 meetings4.4Goals per game
Line—No total posted yet
Books at the line—With the game-day prices

Team news

5 on the injury lists

St. Louis · injuries

Alexey ToropchenkoUpper BodyIRReturn14 Nov
Felix TrudeauUndisclosedIRReturn10 Oct
Logan MaillouxHandIRReturn25 Nov
Tyler TuckerKneeIRReturn12 Nov

Calgary · injuries

Jonathan HuberdeauHipIRReturn10 Oct
5 Oct · STL

Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.

27 Sep · STL

Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.

19 Sep · STL

Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed on waivers.

5 Oct · CGY

Placed D Brayden Pachal and C Connor Zary on waivers.

26 Sep · CGY

Waived F Alex Nylander.

25 Sep · CGY

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.

Injury report
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