The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 on early Wednesday NHL action.<\/p>\n
Here are the takeaways:<\/p>\n
The Lightning scored three goals on Calgary before even the six-minute mark. It was an embarrassing effort for Dustin Wolf as neither of those goals were considered high-danger goals. The game was basically done by then as everything else was cosmetic. Apart from Wolf, the Flames were outshot 20-8 in total shots in the the first period in even-strength hockey. They could only get six more shots in 5:04 of first period PP action, yet couldn’t score.<\/p>\n
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Speaking of power play, the Flames were on the man-advantage for the fourth-longest this season (8:23) and the third-longest where they’ve come away with zero PP goals. In a game where you are fighting from behind, you need to play with urgency and score.<\/p>\n
Ideally, I’m against even being on the PK , even though Calgary was shorthanded for the eighth-lowest time without giving up a PP goal (6:23) in their 25th game of the season. But they still came out with a rare back-to-back shorthanded goal, and that’s a consolation prize, if there can be any, in the end.<\/p>\n
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Not going to sugar-coat it.\u00a0 Wolf gave up three goals on an Expected Goal Against (xGA) value of 0.10.<\/p>\n
I don’t even bring up Expected Goals in my articles but I have to just to emphasize how little that is.<\/p>\n
0.10?<\/p>\n
That’s barely of anything…<\/p>\n
Devin Cooley managed 17 saves off 19 shots in his relief for a save percentage of 0.895.<\/p>\n
The Flames did put up their highest number of high-danger scoring chances (19) in even-strength hockey in any game this season, so the offence is improving.<\/p>\n
All is not lost.<\/p>\n
It was just a bad game with a bad start.<\/p>\n
The Florida Panthers are up next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Calgary Flames 5-1 on early Wednesday NHL action. Here are the takeaways:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37673,37675,37674,16995,135,862,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-62457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-calgary-flames","9":"tag-devin-cooley","10":"tag-dustin-wolf","11":"tag-florida-panthers","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","14":"tag-tampa-headlines","15":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}