The Calgary Flames play the second half of a back-to-back on Sunday when the visit the San Jose Sharks. The Flames play on the road Saturday in Vegas before heading to San Jose for Sunday’s game. Calgary defeated the Dallas Stars in a shootout on Thursday 3-2. Johnny Gaudreau scored against Ben Bishop during the shootout to help lift the Flames to the win and improve to 2-1-1.
San Jose finally won its first game of the season on Thursday with a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks. Patrick Marleau scored a pair of goals in his return to play for San Jose, while Barclay Goodrow’s goal broke a tie and Brent Burns scored helping the Sharks snap a four-game losing streak to open the season. Kevin Lebanc scored for San Jose as well.
Johnny Gaudreau leads Calgary in goals scored with two, in assists with four and points with six. In net, David Rittich is 2-1-1 with goals against of 2.46 and saves percentage of .929. Calgary is scoring an average of 2.75 goals per game while allowing an average of 2.75 per game.
Brent Burns is leading San Jose in goals scored with two, in assists with three and in points with five. Martin Jones is 0-3-0 with goals against of 4.55 and save percentage of .854. San Jose is scoring an average of 2.00 goals per game while allowing an average of 4.20 per game.
