Beyond the Boxscore: Calgary Flames sweep California as top line keeps rolling

With a depleted back-end Calgary was able to finally hold their two-goal lead against the San Jose Sharks to seal a victory and claim the two points. The fictional cutoff for playoffs has been 95 points for years now and Calgary achieves that total with this W. Calgary did not come out slow tonight even though they were on a back-to-back and were able to keep that pace up all the way until they iced the game with the empty net goal. A decent effort from most involved mixed with some mistakes from younger players.

CF% – 62.34%, SCF% – 69.88%, HDCF% – 49.53%, xGF% – 64.34%

It’s a Team Game – Calgary struggled at time to get to the front of the net – outside of the Blake Coleman drive that…