Edmonton Oilers at Calgary Flames: game preview
EdmontonOilers2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 41-30-11 · 93 pts · 14that
CalgaryFlames2026-27: 0-3-0 · 0 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 29thSixteen points apart last season
Edmonton finished last season 14th in the league on 93 points. Calgary finished 29th on 77, and the 2025-26 season series went CGY 3-1-0.
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Meeting number 312
Across 311 completed games, Calgary lead the head-to-head 158-133-20.
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 8 Oct 2025, Edmonton were 9th in the league and Calgary 6th. By 4 Feb 2026 it was 12th and 29th.
Edmonton out-attempted Calgary 265 to 236
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Edmonton Oilers
Calgary Flames
Edmonton 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 Edmonton, 3 for Calgary. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Edmonton, 10 for Calgary.
2025-26: 82 games for Edmonton, 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
Edmonton
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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.
Edmonton crease
EDM · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Mar
No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.
Calgary crease
CGY · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 20 Mar
No appearances against Edmonton in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 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
Edmonton5.674.673.443.28
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.
10 on the injury lists
Edmonton · injuries
Calgary · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on injured reserve. Placed D Alec Regula on long-term injured reserve. Recalled F Josh Samanski under emergency conditions.
Placed G Matt Tomkins on waivers for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield (AHL).
Loaned D Tomas Cibulka, Fs Connor Clattenburg, Quinn Hutson, Viljami Marjala, William Nicholl and Aku Raty and G Connor Ungar to Bakersfield (AHL). Waived for the purpose of assignment to Bakersfield Ds Josh Brown and Riley Stillman and F Eduards Tralmaks.
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.
Edmonton · 2026 draft
See all: Edmonton · 2026 draft →Calgary · 2026 draft
See all: Calgary · 2026 draft →Tuesday 23 March · the full slate
See all: Tuesday 23 March · the full slate →
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