First and foremost, if you want to go into this gameday simply riding the high from last night’s victory over the insufferable Penguins then absolutely do that. As we’ll see, Calgary has a massive statistical advantage in just about every category over Ottawa and they don’t have a COVID outbreak in their lockerroom on top of countless other injuries, and they had yesterday off. By all accounts I would pencil this in as a scheduled loss for Ottawa.
That being said, Ottawa could absolutely Sens ‘em tonight based on pure spite and sicko-ness. For all their statistical dominance, the Flames have struggled to close out games and their record does not reflect their strong on-paper play.