The Calgary Flames and the Ottawa Senators meet in NHL action from the Canadian Tire Centre on Sunday.
The Calgary Flames will be looking to bounce back from a 2-1 overtime loss at the hands of Toronto in their last matchup. Johnny Gaudreau leads the Flames with 15 points including a team-high 11 assists while Elias Lindholm has 15 points split between 7 goals and 7 assists with a team-high 7 power play points and 5 power play assists as well as a team-best +10 plus/minus rating this season. Matthew Tkachuk and Andrew Mangiapane each have 11 points, with Mangiapane logging a team-high 9 goals while Tkachuk has 6 goals and a team-high 4 power play goals. Jacob Markstrom’s posted a 5-3-3 record in goal for the Flames this year, logging a 1.81 GAA and a .935 save percentage.
The Ottawa Senators will be out to build on a 6-3 win over the Pittsburgh Penguins from Saturday night. Drake Batherson leads the Sens with 16 points including 7 goals and 9 assists while Josh Norris has 10 points with 6 goals and 4 assists as well as 3 power play goals. Chris Tierney has 3 power play goals as well while Thomas Chabot has a team-high +4 plus/minus rating as well on the year.
Calgary is 5-2 in their last 7 road games and 1-5 in their last 6 games overall while the over is 3-0-1 in their last 4 Sunday games. Ottawa is 11-40 in their last 51 games played on no rest and 4-1 in their last 5 Sunday games while the under is 16-6-1 in their last 23 games as a home underdog.
I get the case that could be made both ways, but I’m going to side with the under here. Neither team is playing all that well right now, and I think this is going to end up being a game where the lack of offense makes the goaltending and defense on both sides look a lot better than they actually are. Give me the under here.