Colorado’s stronger season profile meets a Calgary team that has won four of its last five.
At Ball Arena, Colorado can widen its three-point cushion over Calgary: the Avalanche are 7-5-1 with 15 points, while the Flames are 6-7-0 with 12. Form favors Calgary, which has won four of its last five, but Colorado is 2-3 over that span and ranks 10th in the power index (73.3) to Calgary’s 26th (44.8). Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon leads with 22 points (8 goals, 14 assists), while Calgary’s top scorer Joel Farabee has 15 (4 goals, 11 assists); Flames goalie Devin Cooley’s .912 save percentage is a key counter to the Avalanche attack. Colorado won the season’s first meeting 7-3 in Calgary, and whether Cooley can blunt MacKinnon’s production may decide if the Flames can change the script.