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Early look · NHL 2026-27

Calgary Flames at Vegas Golden Knights: game preview

Puck drop15 Oct · 10:00 PM ET
VenueT-Mobile Arena
All-time meetings30 completed
BasisLast 5 meetings + 2025-26
The thesis

Eighteen points apart last season

Calgary finished last season 29th in the league on 77 points. Vegas finished 13th on 95, and the 2025-26 season series went VGK 3-1-0.

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

Head-to-head

Meeting number 31

Across 30 completed games, Vegas lead the head-to-head 19-9-2.

All-time record19-9-2Vegas's record in the series
Meetings played30This is number 31
2025-26 seriesVGK 3-1-0
Last 53-2Vegas
DateResultShotsPower playWinner
2 Apr 2026CGY 3 – VGK 622–34CGY 0/2 · VGK 1/6VGK
20 Dec 2025VGK 3 – CGY 637–26VGK 1/2 · CGY 0/0CGY
18 Oct 2025CGY 1 – VGK 627–28CGY 1/3 · VGK 3/3VGK
14 Oct 2025VGK 4 – CGY 230–29VGK 0/2 · CGY 0/1VGK
15 Apr 2025VGK 4 – CGY 5 SO42–28VGK 0/2 · CGY 2/2CGY
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The table on each 2025-26 meeting night

DateCalgaryVegas
14 Oct 20251-3-0 · 2 pts30th2-0-2 · 6 pts8th
18 Oct 20251-5-0 · 2 pts32nd4-0-2 · 10 pts3rd
20 Dec 202515-17-4 · 34 pts27th16-7-10 · 42 pts7th
2 Apr 202631-36-8 · 70 pts30th34-26-16 · 84 pts19th

League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 14 Oct 2025, Calgary were 30th in the league and Vegas 8th. By 2 Apr 2026 it was 30th and 19th.


Where the shots come from · last 5 meetings

Vegas out-attempted Calgary 339 to 278

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

Calgary Flames

278 att · 132 on goal · 16 G · 12.1%
Crease22 att · 3 G
Slot89 att · 7 G
Wing111 att · 6 G
Point46 att · 0 G
Neutral zone10 att · 0 G

Vegas Golden Knights

339 att · 171 on goal · 23 G · 13.5%
Crease30 att · 5 G
Slot129 att · 15 G
Wing108 att · 3 G
Point52 att · 0 G
Neutral zone20 att · 0 G
GoalOn goalMissedBlocked

Expected goals

Vegas 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.

CalgaryVegas
2.54xG for per game3.79
3.38xG against per game2.09
42.9%xG share64.4%
−4.6FinishingGoals minus expected goals+1.8
−5.9GoaltendingExpected goals against minus goals allowed−1.6

This season: 3 games for Calgary, 4 for Vegas. 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

Calgary

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2740.0%
Power play · 2025-2616.2% · 31st
Power play · last 5 meetings3/8 · 37.5%
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 meetings8 (1.60/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2710 (3.33/gm)
PP goals · last meetings3

Vegas

Small sample
Power play · 2026-2731.3%
Power play · 2025-2624.6% · 6th
Power play · last 5 meetings5/15 · 33.3%
Penalty kill · 2026-2783.3%
Penalty kill · 2025-2681.4% · 7th
Faceoffs · 2026-2753.0% · 122/230
Drawn · 2026-2716 (4.00/gm)
Drawn · last meetings15 (3.00/gm)
Shorthanded · 2026-2712 (3.00/gm)
PP goals · last meetings5

Skaters

Mitch Marner has 11 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.

PlayerGPGAPP/GP
86Joel Farabee30220.67
22Ryan Strome31010.33
16Morgan Frost31010.33
9Jack Eichel428102.50
95Victor Olofsson44151.25
48Tomas Hertl43251.25
Points leaders
PlayerGPGAPP/GP
19Zayne Parekh30110.33
44Joel Hanley10000.00
55Jake Middleton30000.00
27Shea Theodore41230.75
15Noah Hanifin41010.25
Defencemen stats

Mitch Marner vs Calgary · game by game

See all: Mitch Marner vs Calgary · game by game →
DateVenueGAPSOGTOI
2 Apr 2026home325617:45
20 Dec 2025away022119:01
18 Oct 2025home202318:17
14 Oct 2025away022421:54
Last 5 meetings11 P5 G, 6 A · 14 SOG
Next best8 PMark Stone, VGK
2026-27 season2 P4 GP · 1 G
Blank vs CGY0 of 4A point in every meeting
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Goaltending

Dustin Wolf has been the difference

Dustin Wolf faced 124 shots across 4 appearances against Vegas and conceded 18, a .855 save percentage against a season figure of .797. Starters are confirmed on game day.

Expected startersAn estimate until the teams confirmEvery game tonight →

Expected starter after their game on 13 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

Expected starter after their game on 13 Oct: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.

CGY · 0-2-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Oct

SV% · 2026-27.7972 GP · 6.01 GAA · 2025-26 .899
vs Vegas.8554 app · 124 SA · 18 GA
GSAx · 2026-27−5.52 starts · most on the roster
vs VGKVenueSAGASV%
2 Apr 2026away346.824
18 Oct 2025away195.737
14 Oct 2025home293.897
15 Apr 2025home424.905

Also on the roster, 2026-27: Devin Cooley .880 (1 GP)

Full game log

VGK · 1-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 12 Oct

SV% · 2026-27.9001 GP · 2.00 GAA · 2025-26 .871
vs Calgary.9192 app · 37 SA · 3 GA
GSAx · 2026-27−0.51 start
vs CGYVenueSAGASV%
18 Oct 2025home271.963
14 Oct 2025away102.800

Also on the roster, 2026-27: Carter Hart .890 (3 GP)

Full game log

Totals

Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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

2 Apr 20269 · CGY 3–6 VGK
20 Dec 20259 · VGK 3–6 CGY
18 Oct 20257 · CGY 1–6 VGK
14 Oct 20256 · VGK 4–2 CGY
15 Apr 20259 · VGK 4–5 CGY

Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.

Scoring rates

Team26-27 GF26-27 GA25-26 GF25-26 GA
Calgary1.005.332.593.16
Vegas4.252.503.233.05

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 suggest6.1Goals in this game
Last 5 meetings8.0Goals per game
Line—No total posted yet
Books at the line—With the game-day prices

Team news

4 on the injury lists

Calgary · injuries

Jonathan HuberdeauHipIRReturn10 Oct

Vegas · injuries

Lukas CormierUndisclosedIRReturn22 Oct
Raphael LavoieUndisclosedOutReturn8 Oct
Victor OlofssonUndisclosedDay-to-dayReturn8 Oct
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.

30 Sep · VGK

Signed C William Karlsson to a two-year contract.

29 Sep · VGK

Placed C Jakub Cormier, RW Matyas Hemmerling and C Jakub Uchacz on the injured non-roster list.

23 Sep · VGK

Placed D Jaycob Megna, D Adam Ginning, D Joe Fleming, C Jakub Demek and D Jeremy Davies on waivers.

Injury report
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