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GAME DAY VIDEO
Game Day with Brendan Parker
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GAME DAY FEATURES
Nice Ring To It! - Coleman Gets Cup Keepsake
Say What: 'Exciting For Our Group'
COMING SOON: Projected Lineup
STAT PACK
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Scoring Leaders
Head-to-Head Stats
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Leading Scorers:
Flames:
Points - Johnny Gaudreau (37)
Goals - Andrew Mangiapane (18)
Lightning:
Points - Steven Stamkos (40)
Goals - Stamkos (16)
Special Teams:
Flames:
PP - 23.1% (10th) / PK - 83.7% (7th)
Lightning:
PP - 20.2% (14th) / PK - 79.6% (18th)
Advanced Stats:
Flames:
Shot Attempts: 54.34% (3rd)
High-Danger Chances: 54.06% (7th)
Lightning:
Shot Attempts: 51.32% (12th)
High-Danger Chances: 56.76% (1st)

1. LAST TIME OUT

Learn and move on.
That was the mindset the Flames had following a 6-2 loss to the Florida Panthers Tuesday night that snapped a two-game win streak.
It was a back-and-forth affair to start, with Johnny Gaudreau and Blake Coleman finding the scoresheet in an eventual 6-2 loss.
"We sure played a good team and we didn't play our best," Rasmus Andersson said. "The short answer is we got to play better, the long answer is that we have to be more dialed in, follow our game plan and stick with it even if we are down one or two. We need to capitalize on our scoring chances and clean some stuff up in the defensive zone as well.
"It was a tough game but we move on. It's a new day today and new opportunity."
That new opportunity, of course, is facing the back-to-back defending Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
Another stiff test.
"We haven't played them in two years but we know it's a tough challenge and that they have a lot of skill," Andersson said. "They are a hard working team as well, they are a tough team to play against because they work hard.
"It's going to be a tough challenge but we're ready for it."
You have to go back to Feb. 29, 2020 for the last time the two clubs met, back when Blake Coleman was on the other side in what ended up being a 4-3 win for the Bolts.
Fast forward to the present day, almost two years later, Coleman is now set to play against his old squad and be presented with his second Cup ring.
"I'm excited," he said. "First and foremost it'll be good to see those guys. Winning certainly is a bond that keeps you bonded for life and every time you see each other you just relive it.
"The ring is one of the coolest things about winning in sports. I've seen pictures of it so it's going to be really special tomorrow to hold it and see it."

2. KNOW YOUR ENEMY

Tuesday night saw the Bolts snap a three-game losing streak in impressive fashion with a 7-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
After being outscored 17-6 during the skid, their blowout victory was what they have been used to seeing, a dominating team performance.
"Our team game was better, we played with a little bit of confidence today," Lightning head coach Jon Cooper said after the win. "I think the guys were ticked off about the Ranger game.
"I know these guys well enough to know that we would bounce back. We tried to push the pace in our skates so we could replicate what we would do in the game."
Everyone nows the Lightning can score, it's a 'pick your poiso'n with the group and the Flames will be put to the test in containing a club which has averaged 3.31 goals per game.
And, of course, there's their defence and goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy who leads all netminders with 18 wins, to go along with a 2.21 goals-against-average and .924 percentage.
It's been said before the trip, that these games would be a measuring stick and tonight continues that trend.
Or as Coleman put it, facing 'the class of the league.'

3. FAST FACTS

BACK-TO-BACK:This is the Flames fifth back-to-back scenario of the season starting tonight in Tampa Bay then tomorrow in Carolina. Calgary is 3-1-0 in the first game of a back-to-back this season and 3-0-1 in the second game of the pair.
ROAD WARRIORS: The Flames have been one of the best road teams this season in the NHL as they are tied for the most road wins (13), lead the NHL in points on the road (28), the most goals for (69), the third most goals for/game (3.45), and the second most shots/game (34.6) in the NHL.
DID YOU KNOW? Johnny Gaudreau scored and extended his road point streak to 11 contests. Only seven players in Flames franchise history have posted a longer run, including Gaudreau - who posted a 13-game stretch in 2017-18. The longest such point-streak on the road in Flames franchise history is 16 games done by Gary Roberts in 1993-94.

4. PLAYERS TO WATCH

Flames - Blake Coleman
Back to his old stomping ground.
Tonight's match-up will see the man they call 'Pickles' face the club he won two rings with for the first time. Coleman was crucial in the Lightning's Stanley Cup victories, posting 24 points in the two post-season runs on a line that provided energy each game.
Last outing against the Panthers saw him score his fifth marker of the season and fire a career-high 12 shots on goal.
Lightning - Brayden Point
The Calgary product is on a roll with 8 points (4G, 4A) in his last five games and now has 21 points in as many games. In Tuesday's win, Point's tally saw him reach 150 career goals to tie Brad Richards for seventh on the Tampa all-time goals list.

5. QUOTABLE

Blake Coleman on his return to Tampa Bay:
"It's good to be back, obviously a lot of good memories here. Walking down the tunnel just thought about the last time I was here on this ice, I had my whole family, the cup out here it was like 3 AM just soaked it all in. It's fun to be back, I hadn't seen the second banner so it's cool to see that and I'm just excited to play. I think there's two new banners there, it's fun to see it, you're kind of part of history forever. You'll be hanging up there for as long as this building is here. It brings back a lot of memoires but at the same time I don't want to get too nostalgic, I want to come in, play a good game and beat these guys."