Calgary could have a new face in its lineup in Elmira, NY, native John Beecher, whom it claimed off waivers from Boston on Tuesday. Beecher, a first-round draft pick in 2019, has 11 goals in 136 career NHL games.<\/p>\n
Beecher joins a Flames team that has struggled out of the gate, particularly on offense. They rank last in the NHL in goals scored despite positive even-strength numbers; their expected goals-for percentage at 5-on-5 (which is calculated based on the quality of chances for and against) actually ranks sixth in the NHL at 54.28 percent.<\/p>\n
Despite the abundance of even-strength chances, the Flames have the NHL\u2019s lowest shooting percentage (7.12 percent, according to Money Puck) and the league\u2019s least successful power play (12.7 percent).<\/p>\n
With Dustin Wolf having started in Chicago on Tuesday, look for Devin Cooley \u2013 a member of the Sabres organization in 2023-24 \u2013 to get the start in net tonight. Cooley has been a bright spot for the Flames to start the season with a .935 save percentage in five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary could have a new face in its lineup in Elmira, NY, native John Beecher, whom it claimed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-302337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}