The Calgary Flames have defeated the Dallas Stars in the opening round of the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs. In keeping with our regular season seven game segments features, we’ve decided to dive into the Flames’ performance during the past seven games.
In short: it was quite good, despite the team not scoring oodles of goals.
Underlying numbers via Natural Stat Trick.
Regular season segments:
- First (Games 1-7): 5-1-1 [11 of 14 points]
- Second (Games 8-14): 2-2-3 [7 of 14 points]
- Third (Games 15-21): 5-1-1 [11 of 14 points]
- Fourth (Games 22-28): 3-3-1 [7 of 14 points]
- Fifth (Games 29-35): 3-4-0 [6 of 14 points]
- Sixth (Games 36-42): 5-2-0 [10 of 14 points]
- Seventh (Games 43-49): 7-0-0 [14 of 14 points]
- Eighth (Games 50-56): 4-2-1 [9 of 14 points]
- Ninth (Games 57-63): 4-2-1 [9 of 14 points]
- Tenth (Games 64-70): 4-2-1 [9 of 14 points]
- Eleventh (Games 71-77): 5-1-1 [11 of 14 points]
- Twelfth (Games 78-82): 3-1-1 [7 of 10 points]
The Flames won the majority of their regular season segments, but this playoff series featured (a) them facing the same team repeatedly and (b) a lot of really sustained puck possession throughout most of the games.