Heading into Saturday night’s edition of the Battle of Alberta, the Calgary Flames are four points ahead of the Edmonton Oilers with one game in hand. But the two teams have had wildly, wildly different schedules and performances to arrive at their respective records.
Let’s look at their schedules by general grouping and relative performances.
Against the Pacific
| Flames 3-4-1 (18 left) | Oilers 8-2-0 (16 left) | |
| Head-to-head | 0-1-0 (3 left) | 1-0-0 (3 left) |
| Ducks | 1-0-1 (2 left) | 1-0-0 (2 left) |
| Kings | 1-0-0 (2 left) | 0-1-0 (3 left) |
| Kraken | 1-0-0 (3 left) | 2-1-0 |
| Sharks | 0-2-0 (2 left) | 0-0-0 (4 left) |
| Canucks | 0-0-0 (4 left) | 2-0-0 (2 left) |
| Golden Knights | 0-1-0 (2 left) | 2-0-0 (2 left) |