Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Calgary Flames (13-16-5, 31 points) and Detroit Red Wings (15-12-9, 39 points) hit the ice at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit for the second and final meeting against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Calgary fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on Sportsnet 960 while Detroit fans can do the same on 97.1 The Ticket.
Calgary enters play with a 1-1-1 record over their first three games of their five-game road trip while the Red Wings are winless in their last six games as injuries have mounted up on them. The first time these two teams met, the Red Wings defeated the Flames 4-3 on Nov. 1 in Calgary.
The Red Wings have dropped five consecutive home games and are 2-7-1 in their last 10 games at Joe Louis Arena.
"We really can't think too much about the past," goalie Jonas Gustavsson said per NHL.com. "We have to really put all of the focus on the next game and that game only. It's not like we're going to win five games at once. We've got to win one game and go from there, so I know we're all looking to bounce back and we're going to do everything that we can [Thursday night]."
Gustavsson has filled in for the injured Jimmy Howard and is 8-3-2 with a 2.27 goals-against average this season with a .920 save percentage. Karri Ramo is likely to start for the Flames and is 6-5-2 with a 2.68 GAA and a .907 save percentage.
Calgary is coming off of a shutout at the hands of the Boston Bruins Tuesday that saw them lose 2-0.
"Once they scored their first goal, it seems like for a reason I can't explain we lost our legs," coach Bob Hartley said per NHL.com. "We knew it would be a grinding game and tight checking and that we wouldn't get a ton of chances, but I felt that in the first period we skated well. That first power play goal kind of set us back and we couldn't get going."
The Flames have been led by Jiri Hudler (9-21-30), Sean Monahan (10-6-16) and Kris Russell (4-12-16) while the Red Wings have been carried by Henrik Zetterberg (11-19-30), Pavel Datsyuk (13-12-25) and Daniel Alfredsson (7-17-24). Zetterberg is sidelined with a back injury and Alfredsson missed the morning skate Wednesday but is scheduled to start.
The Flames look to bounce back after being shutout while the Red Wings hope their injuries won't continue to hurt them when these teams faceoff tonight at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
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