The Blackhawks have slowly started heading back towards Chicago but have one final Canadian stop on their road trip with Friday’s game against the Calgary Flames.
The Flames have really been stumbling out of the gate in 2025–26, though they are on a two-game winning streak. After their 5–1 win over the Blue Jackets on Wednesday, they sit at 4–9–2 for a .333 points percentage that has them anchored near the bottom of the league. For that Blue Jackets game, they managed to win despite being outshot 43-26 thanks to scoring twice in the first 92 seconds and then adding three more goals to cap it off. So the game was odd for the Flames: they’re not usually outshot (they owned 51.35 percent of the shots on goal share, 11th in the league) but they also don’t typically win either. The Flames actually have pretty strong shot metrics across the board — 52.87 percent shot attempts (6th) and 52.37 percent expected goals (8th) — yet have just a 98.4 PDO at 5-on-5 thanks to a low shooting percentage of 8.13 (25th).
On the production front, Nazem Kadri is the clear leader as he’s got 11 points already (4 G, 7 A), though that’s only because he’s played five more games than Jonathan Huberdeau, who has the teams highest points-per-game rate with 0.8 or eight points (4 G, 4 A) in 10 games. Blake Coleman is pacing the Flames for goals with six on the season. The Flames roster has a mix of veterans and younger pieces: the aforementioned Kadri, Huberdeau, and Coleman as well as Mikael Backlund (3 G 4 A) bring experience, while Morgan Frost (3 G, 5 A), Joel Farabee (2 G, 5 A) and Matt Coronato (3 G, 3 A) are helping spark things as forwards 25 or younger. On the blue line, MacKenzie Weegar is still a cornerstone, but 19-year old Zayne Parekh has had a rough start to his NHL career and has been scratched in three of the past four games.
In net, 24-year old netminder Dustin Wolf has a sub-optimal save percentage of .895 while getting the bulk of the work. However, in the last two wins over Columbus and Philadelphia, he did post save percentages of .977 and .944, respectively.
At Friday’s morning skate, the Flames kept similar lines to what they rolled the last two games, with the exception that Parekh will be back in the lineup on defense. Wolf will be the starter.
#Flames lines, pairings and goaltenders vs. #Blackhawks:
— Derek Wills (@Fan960Wills) November 7, 2025
Zary-Kadri-Farabee
Huberdeau-Frost-Coronato
Honzek-Backlund-Coleman
Lomberg-Sharangovich-Klapka
Hanley-Weegar
*Kuznetsov-Andersson
Pachal-Parekh
Wolf (Starter)
Cooley
*Bahl not skating (maintenance) pic.twitter.com/Umi68RTRCB
As for the Blackhawks, they snapped their three-game skid on this six-game road trip, knocking off the Vancouver Canucks 5–2 on Wednesday night — and, in the process, ended an 11-game losing streak to the Canucks that stretched all the way back to January 2022. Tyler Bertuzzi scored a hat trick in the third period, Connor Bedard pushed his point streak to six games with a goal and an assist, and Spencer Knight stopped basically everything that moved (43 saves, .956 save percentage) to steal the show in net. As with most of the games this season, the wins are mostly due to Knight:
Spencer Knight vs. Vancouver tonight:
— Charlie Roumeliotis (@CRoumeliotis) November 6, 2025
· 43 saves on 45 shots for a save percentage of .956
· 3.44 goals saved above expected, per @MoneyPuckdotcom
· Primary assist
What a performance. #Blackhawks
We’ll take it!
The Blackhawks will have the same line-up and same 11F/7D setup as against the Canucks, including Knight in net. Sam Lafferty looks set to watch from the press box yet again as a healthy scratch for the 11th time in the last 12 games. Here was that lineup for the Vancouver game:
Blackhawks in warmups, in their now-customary 11/7: Greene-Bedard-Burakovsky Teräväinen-Nazar-Bertuzzi Moore-Donato-Mikheyev Foligno-Dach Vlasic-Rinzel Kaiser-Levshunov Grzelcyk-Murphy Crevier Knight Söderblom
— Mark Lazerus (@marklazerus.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
On the injury side of things: Jason Dickinson officially headed back to Chicago after landing on injured reserve earlier this week.
Tale of the Tape
Blackhawks — Statistic — Flames
44.09% (32nd) — 5-on-5 Corsi For — 51.74% (7th)
43.03% (32nd) — 5-on-5 Expected goals for — 50.09% (16th)
2.73 (26th) — Goals per game — 2.68 (29th)
3.56 (31st) — Goals against per game — 2.88 (15th)
44.8% (31st) — Faceoffs — 46.0% (28th)
24.9% (7th) — Power play — 21.0% (19th)
79.3% (14th) — Penalty kill — 76.1% (25th)
(All stats from last season)
How to watch
When: 8 p.m. CT
Where: Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary
TV: CHSN
Webstream: ESPN+
Radio: WGN 720