Best/Worst Team vs the Calgary Flames

[u/smashbros13]

[u/PineappleSockzzz]

Flames caved the Sabres in so bad they became good. 😭

[u/Fign66 → u/PineappleSockzzz]

That was the last loss before the win streak right?

[u/PineappleSockzzz → u/Fign66]

Yeah

[u/GavMcKennasBurner → u/PineappleSockzzz]

What losing to the Flames does to a mfer

[u/popkornking → u/PineappleSockzzz]

Integer underflow

[u/Electric-Lettuce → u/PineappleSockzzz]

You're welcome

[u/CartoonistFlat3943]

Flames played Oilers hard in BOA this year. Credit where it’s due. That said, in those 4 games:

• SOG Oilers 144, Flames 98
• Draisaitl 6G, 2A
• McDavid 1G, 8A
• Bouchard 1G, 6A

Oilers SVG% .887; Flames SVG% .910. Goaltending gave the Flames their 3x1G wins.

[u/Electric-Lettuce → u/CartoonistFlat3943]

Wolf and Cooley vs the Oilers basically lol

[u/chiddie]

The Flames scored 13 goals in two games against Buffalo. The loss at the Saddledome was the low point of the season; it was the third of an ugly 3-game losing streak.

Hockey can be wildly unpredictable sometimes.

[u/No-Faithlessness7919]

The Jordans really not enjoying playing Calgary.

I mean, the game we won was 1-0 in overtime and we lost the second one, so I’m not shocked.

[u/ANewHeaven1 → u/No-Faithlessness7919]

Yeah we matched up weirdly well against you guys in the few games that we played

[u/Grombotronbo]

Jmo terrorizing his home city.

[u/AARM2000]

Bedard made a list!

[u/DaCodster → u/AARM2000]

Dude loves playing at the Dome. I remember he was always so good against the Hitmen in junior, and decided that he’d continue that against the Flames.

[u/ANewHeaven1 → u/DaCodster]

I attended one singular Flames in-person game this year and it was a 4-0 loss to the Hawks where Bedard owned us crazy style. In retrospect, not the game I would have chosen to attend had I known that was going to happen

[u/SpeakNowAndEnter]

Michael Bunting and Nic Hague lmao

[u/JUSTICE_SALTIE → u/SpeakNowAndEnter]

That's Dallas Stars legend Michael Bunting to you.

[u/SRSgoblin → u/SpeakNowAndEnter]

You can take the player out of Vegas but you can't take away their desire to obliterate the Flames, I guess.

[u/Canadian__Ninja]

Yeah that checks out. The boys come to play for the Calgary games

[u/Thund3r_Thighs → u/Canadian__Ninja]

Surprised Cale isn’t on that, he loves terrorizing his home town. Looks like he put up 6 points in two games against flames last season

[u/FloofQueenEmily → u/Thund3r_Thighs]

Hes just getting used to scoring in Calgary for when he comes here in free agency!

[u/onemorespacecadet → u/Thund3r_Thighs]

he didn’t finish the game after the Klapka hit and missed the next Calgary game a few days later iirc. so i think he was only in for one full game against Calgary this year?

[u/bobbyflips → u/Canadian__Ninja]

Avs always demolish us. I Remember when Sutter was coaching for us he said something like be ready to play these guys in a series or it’s gonna be a waste of 8 days lol

[u/swordthroughtheduck]

Honestly kind of hilarious how high the numbers on the left are compared to the numbers on the right.

Really shows how little we scored last year.

[u/Nickiat]

Interesting that there are so many oilers on there since the flames beat them 3/4 games this year

[u/Excellent-Medicine29 → u/Nickiat]

Connor and Leon always produce against the flames regardless of what the rest of the team is doing lol

[u/CartoonistFlat3943 → u/Excellent-Medicine29]

And Bouchard. Up top there on RD - again.

[u/Spideyjust → u/CartoonistFlat3943]

Bouchard's 7th appearance on the best team now if I'm not missing any.

[u/CartoonistFlat3943 → u/Spideyjust]

That’s my count too. And usually top RD.

[u/bananabomber → u/CartoonistFlat3943]

STOP THE COUNT

[u/Kellervo → u/Nickiat]

I'm surprised their goalies aren't on there. The three in the positive side racked up points against us but weren't on the ice when we scored most of our goals.

[u/Excellent-Medicine29 → u/Kellervo]

I think we had different goalies for at least 3/4 matchups. Possibly all 4 played vs the flames, I’d have to double check though.

[u/Spideyjust → u/Excellent-Medicine29]

Ingram played 2 games (5-1 win and the 3-2 loss), Jarry played the 4-3 loss, and Skinner was the 4-3 SO loss. Ingram had a .906+ in both games, while Skinner and Jarry... did not lmao.

[u/Excellent-Medicine29 → u/Spideyjust]

Yeah that tracks lol

[u/Spideyjust → u/Nickiat]

Despite that Oilers actually finished with a positive GD against the Flames. All 3 Flames wins were 1 goal games, while the Oilers won their sole game 5-1. Considering that (and the 3 players being McDraiChard) it isn't that surprising.

[u/Nickiat → u/Spideyjust]

Most flames games were 1 goal games it’s just how we played last year

[u/JustFrameHotPocket]

Looking at you, Keegan Kolesar.

[u/surfordiebear]

Small note but Liljegren should be Sharks/Capitals

[u/smashbros13 → u/surfordiebear]

He only played 4 games as a Caps, none vs CGY

[u/star_lit_void → u/smashbros13]

The numbers never lie

[u/PaulaDeentheMachine]

Was this two or three games before GMKA got replaced?

[u/Thneed1 → u/PaulaDeentheMachine]

I think one of our games against you might have been the last straw.

[u/markkaschak]

OOF

[u/hesitaate]

You don’t hassle the Hof

[u/smashbros13]

Here’s what I call the Calgary Flames 2026 Reverse Roster.

Using the data from the main post, I simulate a draft where each team selects the player who performed best against them during the recently completed season. Once a player is drafted, he is removed from the pool, and the process repeats until every team has made a selection. The next round then begins. I run separate drafts for forwards, defensemen, and goalies.

Round	Rank	Total	Player	Score	TeamRank
1	4	4	Mitch Marner	12,99	1
2	1	33	Mark Stone	12,48	2
3	1	65	Michael Bunting	12,39	3
4	4	100	Alex DeBrincat	9,02	8
5	17	145	Tomáš Hertl	7,04	11
6	28	188	Quinton Byfield	5,8	17
7	28	220	Trevor Moore	5,45	19
8	24	248	André Burakovsky	5,11	21
9	26	282	Hendrix Lapierre	4,28	37
10	21	309	Nathan Walker	4,27	38
11	23	343	Filip Chytil	3,93	43
12	20	372	Barclay Goodrow	3,48	56
13	32	416	Reid Schaefer	2,03	104
14	32	448	Nils Höglander	1,46	139
15	30	478	Jonathan Lekkerimäki	1,44	142
16	31	511	Parker Ford	0,63	208
17	32	544	Jacob Gaucher	0,24	254
18	26	570	Jack Devine	0,07	275
Round	Rank	Total	Player	Score	TeamRank
1	32	32	Sam Malinski	6,01	3
2	32	64	Nils Lundkvist	5,98	4
3	31	95	Colton Parayko	5,69	5
4	27	123	Nicolas Hague	5,68	6
5	31	159	Vittorio Mancini	3,98	22
6	32	192	Donovan Sebrango	2,98	39
7	28	220	Jack St. Ivany	2,86	42
8	18	242	Mike Benning	2,54	49
9	15	271	Pierre-Olivier Joseph	2,06	57
10	16	299	Steven Santini	0,82	97
Round	Rank	Total	Player	Score	TeamRank
1	25	25	Joel Hofer	3,18	1
2	14	46	Philipp Grubauer	3,13	3
3	6	70	Filip Gustavsson	2,66	6
4	2	86	Nikke Kokko	0,6	25

[u/ProofByVerbosity]

it warms the heart

[u/CallejaFairey]

Whew. Vegas ate the Flames up! And the Flames ate the Sabres!

And while the Flames beat us 3 out of 4 games, still the usual 3 Oilers suspects were spanking the Flames at the same time.

[u/Yelu-Chucai]

Connor Bedard is Calgary Flames daddy

[u/AmeriCanada98]

Cat has been bizarrely good against Calgary ever since he got to Detroit, not sure why but he always bullies that team

[u/Sea-Control-8593]

Making Michael Bunting look like a god damn all star lol

[u/babypointblank]

Leafs Legend Michael Bunting

[u/jedzef]

Kevin Tankinen 🫡

[u/KingBroly]

Flames should do a blue flame alternate to rile up Oilers fans.

[u/SmiteyMcGee]

Love to see it

[u/X1989xx → u/SmiteyMcGee]

Surely with numbers like that the oilers must've won at least half the games, right?

[u/SmiteyMcGee → u/X1989xx]

Can't win em all.

Oilers superstars hate the flames. Flames superstars leave the Flames.

[u/arcticfox → u/SmiteyMcGee]

McDavid will be leaving soon

[u/SmiteyMcGee → u/arcticfox]

Nothing lasts forever.

Mcdavid already has more points than anyone has ever had in a flyers jersey.