Minnesota Wild at Calgary Flames: game preview
MinnesotaWild2026-27: 2-0-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 46-24-12 · 104 pts · 7that
CalgaryFlames2026-27: 0-3-0 · 0 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 29thTwenty-seven points apart last season
Minnesota finished last season 7th in the league on 104 points. Calgary finished 29th on 77.
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Meeting number 117
Across 116 completed games, Calgary lead the head-to-head 64-36-16.
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 9 Nov 2025, Minnesota were 21st in the league and Calgary 32nd. By 29 Jan 2026 it was 5th and 29th.
Calgary out-attempted Minnesota 204 to 162
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Minnesota Wild
Calgary Flames
Minnesota 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 Minnesota, 3 for Calgary. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Minnesota, 10 for Calgary.
2025-26: 82 games for Minnesota, 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
Minnesota
Small sampleCalgary
Small sampleSkaters to watch
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.
Minnesota crease
MIN · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 19 Oct
No appearances against Calgary in the last meetings.
Calgary crease
CGY · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 19 Oct
No appearances against Minnesota in the last meetings.
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
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Minnesota3.001.673.322.93
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.
4 on the injury lists
Minnesota · injuries
Calgary · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Waived for the purpose of assignment to Iowa (AHL) Ds Matt Kiersted, Carson Lambos, and Roman Schmidt and Fs Caedan Bankier, Dylan Gambrell, Justin Kirkland, Tyler Pitlick, and Mason Shaw. Assigned Ds Ben Dexheimer and Viking Gustafsson Nyberg and Fs Jagger Joshua, Hunter Haight, Riley Heidt, Rasmus Kumpulainen, and Rieger Lorenz to Iowa.
Signed G Filip Ruzicka to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Signed D Filip Ruzicka to a three-year contract.
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.
Minnesota · 2026 draft
See all: Minnesota · 2026 draft →Calgary · 2026 draft
See all: Calgary · 2026 draft →Thursday 22 October · the full slate
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