CGY vs CAR OCT. 20
The Calgary Flames lost 4-2 against the Carolina Hurricanes on October 20th. Now, the pk wasn’t that bad (in comparison), but they managed to kill off six of their eight penalties they had. Now, why I think special teams could have affected this game is because the Hurricanes got a power play late in the game that they scored on with only 34 seconds left. However, and this is a big however, the Flames were 0/6 on the power play. Even if they managed to convert on just one of those chances, The game at that point would have been tied 3-3. If the game was tied at 3-3, the Flames wouldn’t have had that big push in the dying minutes, thus they may have not gotten a penalty, and they could have gone to OT and gotten at least a point.
Boom, that’s at least one more point for the Flames (since Carolina is in the Eastern Division, it doesn’t really matter to the Flames how many points they have).