Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Calgary Flames (6-11-3, 15 points) and the Winnipeg Jets (10-10-2, 22 points) faceoff live from the MTS Centre in Winnipeg in the first of three meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Calgary fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action by turning their dials to CFAC-AM 960 The Fan, while Winnipeg fans can do the same on TSN Radio 1290.
Both teams enter towards the bottom of the Western Conference as Calgary is 13th and Winnipeg is 11th in the west. Both teams are sixth in their division as Calgary is 17 points behind the division-leading Anaheim Ducks in the Pacific Division while Winnipeg is 10 points behind the first-place Chicago Blackhawks in the Central Division.
The Flames are on a five game losing streak and went 0-2-1 in their three game homestand with their latest loss coming at the hands of the Edmonton Oilers via a 4-2 final Saturday night. The Flames will look ahead to the Jets, a team that they believe will be a hard test.
"They're playing very well," Hartley told the Flames website. "They're a pretty big team. It's a loud building. It should be fun. I think that the first goal is always very important, but it's going to be a game for men. There won't be any room for kids out there."
The Jets enter a three-game homestand after snapping a four-game winning streak with a 2-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild Sunday, in a game where the team battled hard to the very end.
"I thought we played a pretty good road game," Jets coach Claude Noel said via NHL.com. "I thought we made some mistakes that led to the defensive zone faceoff that led to the goal that led to the game [winner]. Other than that, we managed the game fairly well."
Bryan Little leads the Jets with 19 points off of 11 goals and eight assists while Andrew Ladd has notched five tallies and 12 helpers for 17 points and Dustin Byfuglien has lit the lamp four times and added 11 assists for 15 points thus far this season.
The Flames, meanwhile, have been paced by Jiri Hudler, who has four assists in the past five games for a total of 14 helpers on the season to go with six goals for 20 points while Sean Monahan has found the twine eight times and added five assists for 13 points and Dennis Wideman has two tallies and 10 helpers for 12 points.
Karri Ramo has appeared in a team-leading eight games in the crease for Calgary and has put up a 2-4-1 record to go along with a 3.59 goals-against average and a .882 save percentage while Joey MacDonald has started seven games for the Flames and is 3-3-1 with a 3.17 GAA and a .885 save percentage. Ondrej Pavelec has started 18 of the Jets' 23 contests and has an 8-8-2 record to go along with a 2.74 GAA and a .915 save percentage.
The Flames look to snap a five-game losing streak while the Jets hope to start a new winning streak after their four-game run was snapped when these teams hit the ice at the MTS Centre tonight in Winnipeg.
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