Toronto Maple Leafs Headline November Canadian Team Power Rankings

Calgary Flames: The 3rd Best Canadian Team

At 9-9-3 the Calgary Flames are a .500 team.

In fact, they currently sit 20th in the NHL standings, would miss the playoffs if the season ended today, and are behind three other Canadian teams, including Montreal.

The Flames currently have an expected goals rating that is 12th best, would make them a playoff team, and which is in fact not far off what Toronto and Tampa are posting this year to date.

The Calgary Flames are ranked 3rd worst in the NHL for PDO, which is the combined total of save and shooting percentages at 5v5.

Since most teams will post a 100  PDO if given enough time, it can be used to measure luck. The Flames are currently the NHL’s 3rd most unlucky team, behind only San Jose and Columbus.

The Flames have a solid goalie in Markstrom, and they have a lot of good scorers, including Huberdeau and kadri.

If you want to know why the Flames are doing so badly, it’s because Jon Huberdeau has the lowest on-ice shooting percentage of his career, while his individual shooting percentage is by far the lowest it’s been in five years.

The Flames could easily miss the playoffs due to a bad-luck start to the season, but all the numbers say that they will eventually get better.

So while the Jets and Habs are ahead of them, I don’t hold it against them because at this point in the season we are still seeing a lot of whacky results.

Calgary is  a superior team to all of Canada’s teams, save two.