Calgary Flames Special Teams: Nothing Short Of Excellent Lately

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The Calgary Flames still rank close to the bottom for their special teams. However, those numbers definitely don’t reflect how it’s been the last couple weeks.

The Calgary Flames are now on a four-game win streak and five-game point streak. We can owe some of this to their special teams. If their special teams have been like they were before these last couple of weeks, they without a doubt wouldn’t have walked away with nine points in their last five games. And not 13 points in their last eight games.

So let’s look at their penalty kill and their power play.

Penalty Killing

From the start of the season until November 21st, the Calgary Flames were second last on the penalty kill with 72.7%. They were also tied for first for the most amount of times being short-handed with 77 times. And they allowed the most amount of power-play goals in that time frame with 21 PPG on 71 times being short-handed.

Now from November 22nd to December 7th, their penalty kill is 93.1%. That’s third in the league in that time frame. They still haven’t really been able to keep their discipline in check, being short-handed 29 times, one less than the highest, 30. However, they’ve only allowed two power play goals against on those 29 times being short handed. They’ve also gotten three short-handed goals in that time frame. Which means they’ve gotten more SHG than PPG against in that time frame. Cool.

Power Play

Like the PK, from the start of the season until November 21st, the Calgary Flames had the worst Power Play in the league with 8.4%. They were fifth in the league for the amount of PP opportunities with 71 times, but only had six PP goals. Which was tied for the second lowest amount in the league.

Now from November 22nd to December 7th, again like the PK, their PP is looking much better. Their power play is first with 33.3%. Can you believe they’re first? Because I’m sitting in class right now and I didn’t even realize or know they’re first in that time frame and I’m just kind of sitting here stunned.

Given, they haven’t had that many power play opportunities, but they have six PPG. That’s on 18 PP opportunities. That’s the same amount of PPG they had before, but on about a quarter of the opportunities.

In that time frame from the start of the season to November 21st, their record was 8-12-1. That earned them just 17 points in 21 games. From November 22nd to now, their record is 6-1-1 earning them 13 points in just eight games.

Is this a direct correlation to their special teams?

Well, let’s look at some of their games since November 22nd and see how their special teams affected the game:

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