{"id":399420,"date":"2026-01-10T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399420\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:07:09","slug":"game-preview-calgary-flames-pittsburgh-penguins-1-10-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399420\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Calgary Flames @ Pittsburgh Penguins 1\/10\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who: Calgary Flames (18-22-4, 40 points, 7th place Pacific Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (21-12-9, 51 points, 4th place Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

How to Watch: Broadcast locally Sportsnet Pittsburgh and SN\/TVAS, streaming on ESPN+<\/p>\n

Pens\u2019 Path Ahead: The busy stretch continues tomorrow with a 5 p.m. ET game in Boston. Then it\u2019s back to Pittsburgh for three home games next week, starting with the Tampa Bay Lightning on Tuesday and followed by division matchups against the Philadelphia Flyers and Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday and Saturday, respectively.<\/p>\n

Opponent Track: It\u2019s been a dispiriting stretch in Calgary. The Flames are on a four-game losing skid, and they\u2019ve been held to just one goal in each of their last three games (while getting outscored by a total of 18-3). Calgary most recently dropped a back-to-back set in Montreal and Boston earlier this week.<\/p>\n

Season Series: This is the first time the Flames and Pens have met this season. They\u2019ll see one another later this month, when the Pens head to Calgary on Jan. 21 as part of a four-game West Coast road swing.<\/p>\n

Hidden Stat: The Flames are heading into this matchup with the worst road points percentage<\/a> in the NHL, going 6-15-2 (.304 points percentage) in 23 away games so far this season.<\/p>\n

Hidden Stat II: Courtesy of Pens PR, the Penguins are 13-1-4 in games where at least one member of the current fourth line (Connor Dewar, Blake Lizotte and Noel Acciari) records a point.<\/p>\n

Getting to know the Flames<\/p>\n

Jonathan Huberdeau – Nazem Kadri – Joel Farabee<\/p>\n

Blake Coleman – Mikael Backlund – Matt Coronato<\/p>\n

Connor Zary – Morgan Frost – Yegor Sharangovich<\/p>\n

Ryan Lomberg – Justin Kirkland – Adam Klapka<\/p>\n

Kevin Bahl \/ Rasmus Andersson<\/p>\n

Yan Kuznetsov \/ MacKenzie Weegar<\/p>\n

Joel Hanley \/ Hunter Brzustewicz<\/p>\n

Goalies: Dustin Wolf, Devin Cooley<\/p>\n

Potential scratches: Zayne Parekh (day-to-day upper body injury), William Stromgren, Brayden Pachal<\/p>\n

Injured Reserve: Jake Bean, Samuel Honk, John Beecher, Martin Pospisil<\/p>\n

Flames fans haven\u2019t gotten to see rookie defenseman Zayne Parekh since he set a record<\/a> for Canadian World Juniors defensemen with 13 points in seven games of the 2025 tournament. The 19-year-old was sidelined for Calgary\u2019s back-to-back earlier this week.Dustin Wolf has made eight straight starts for the Flames, including in the team\u2019s losses to the Habs and Bruins on consecutive days last week. Backup Devin Cooley has been dealing with an illness, according to head coach Ryan Huska, who admitted<\/a> it has not been \u201cideal\u201d to be playing Wolf this much. Whether Wolf (3-5-0 over this stretch) gets a ninth straight start against the Pens could depend on Cooley\u2019s health status.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Flames are about to hit a crossroads at the trade deadline. Right now, they\u2019re in no man\u2019s land. They\u2019re ostensibly still in the playoff race (six points back of a Western Conference Wild Card spot with 38 games left in the season). They had a resurgent December (9-4-0) before their January slump (0-4).<\/p>\n

They\u2019re playing veterans and keeping young players on a tight leash\u2014 rookie winger William Stromgren made his NHL debut on Wednesday, but skated just over eight minutes before getting scratched for Thursday\u2019s matchup with the Bruins.<\/p>\n

The Flames are also the lowest-scoring team in the NHL with 2.13 goals for per game, and they\u2019re allowing the fifth-most goals against (3.57 per game). The Calgary power play is ticking along at just 12.5 percent.<\/p>\n

Blake Coleman has been tied to the Montreal Canadiens by TSN\u2019s Pierre LeBrun<\/a>. Rasmus Andersson is an obvious trade chip given that he\u2019s playing on an expiring contract. Whether these players and others ultimately get moved at the deadline could depend at least in part on how soon the Flames can end their ongoing losing streak.<\/p>\n

Infographic courtesy of Pens PR<\/p>\n

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Rickard Rakell – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust<\/p>\n

Evgeni Malkin – Ben Kindel – Yegor Chinakhov<\/p>\n

Anthony Mantha – Tommy Novak – Justin Brazeau<\/p>\n

Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari<\/p>\n

Parker Wotherspoon \/ Erik Karlsson<\/p>\n

Brett Kulak \/ Kris Letang<\/p>\n

Ryan Shea \/ Jack St. Ivany<\/p>\n

Goalies: Stuart Skinner and Arturs Silovs<\/p>\n

Potential Scratches: Ville Koivunen, Kevin Hayes, Connor Clifton<\/p>\n

IR: Filip Hallander, Caleb Jones, Rutger McGroarty<\/p>\n

The Penguins had an optional practice Friday ahead of today\u2019s afternoon game and this weekend\u2019s back-to-back set, per Michelle Crechiolo.Malkin made his return from injury on Ben Kindel\u2019s wing during Thursday\u2019s win over the Devils. We\u2019ll see if he sticks on the wing or returns to his natural center position for his second game back.Only the Tampa Bay Lightning (eight straight wins) are currently riding a longer victory streak than the Pens (six consecutive victories).Courtesy of Pens PR: A goal or assist from Erik Karlsson tonight would make him the first Penguins defenseman since Dick Tarnstrom in 2002 to record points in 10 straight home games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Calgary Flames (18-22-4, 40 points, 7th place Pacific Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (21-12-9, 51 points, 4th place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[257,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-399420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-general","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399420","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=399420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}