Calgary Flames Vs Edmonton Oilers

Time: Mon, December 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM ET
League: NHL – United States of America
Last 10 matches: Calgary 3-5-2; Edmonton 4-6-0
Iginla has three goals and three assists in the last five games for the Flames. He’ll be looking to end a five-game goalless streak against the Oilers and a nine-game drought at Rexall Place. Its safe to say the Oilers would prefer even-strength play right now in their last three losses they’ve yielded seven power-play goals while coming up empty on their own man advantages.
“It’s hard to make mistakes when you’re in the rut we are,” center Ryan Potulny said. “It seems like every mistake we make somehow gets in the back of the net or we make too many mistakes.”
If a visit to Rexall Place can’t cure the Flames of their recent woes, they might really be in trouble. In the first eight days of the season, they handed the Oilers a pair of stunning defeats. A bad giveaway by Khabibulin led to David Moss scoring the winner with 48.7 seconds left in regulation in the first matchup, then Rene Bourque tied the next meeting with 1.5 seconds remaining and the Flames won in a shootout.
Fourth of six meetings this season between Northwest Division rivals. They play again on New Year’s Eve and conclude the regular-season series on Jan. 30, 2010. So far it’s been all Calgary, which has already won a pair of 4-3 games in Edmonton and taken a 5-2 decision on home ice. All three of those games took place in October and featured Miikka Kiprusoff getting the best of Nikolai Khabibulin. We will post information about results of this match, as soon as posible.