Four down, one to go. The Calgary Flames (21-25-5, 47 points) will close out a five game homestand on Sunday evening when they host the Anaheim Ducks (27-21-3, 57 points). The Flames opened their homestand with an impressive win over the New York Islanders, but have dropped their past three games and struggled to score. Can they close out their run of five games with a win?

Today’s broadcast begins at 6 p.m. MT on Sportsnet West and Sportsnet 960 The Fan.

Projected lines via Daily Faceoff (and Sportsnet’s Pat Steinberg):

Connor Zary – Nazem Kadri – Martin Pospisil
Jonathan Huberdeau – Morgan Frost – Matvei Gridin
Yegor Sharangovich – Mikael Backlund – Matt Coronato
Joel Farabee – Justin Kirkland – Adam Klapka

Yan Kuznetsov – MacKenzie Weegar
Kevin Bahl – Zach Whitecloud
Joel Hanley – Hunter Brzustewicz

We’re projecting Dustin Wolf to start in net, backed up by Devin Cooley. The projected extra skaters are Brayden Pachal and Ryan Lomberg. And hey, the Flames have some new lines with some familiar pairings involved: Nazem Kadri’s line was used extensively in the past, Huberdeau/Frost and Backlund/Coronato are old classics, while the fourth line is just sort of a hodgepodge of whoever’s left. We’ll see how it works out against the Ducks.

The Flames are 3-7-1 since the calendar has flipped over to 2026. They’ve lost three in a row since the Rasmus Andersson trade, scoring three goals in that span. They know how they need to play to get results; fast, tenacious and structured defensively. But they just haven’t been doing that consistently enough to get wins of late.

Keep an eye on Nazem Kadri and Jonathan Huberdeau in this game; both have struggled to generate scoring chances lately, and the Flames really need them to find their offensive swagger.

Projected lines via Daily Faceoff:

Alex Killorn – Mikael Granlund – Beckett Sennecke
Chris Kreider – Jansen Harkins – Ryan Strome
Jeffrey Veil – Ryan Poehling – Cutter Gauthier
Ross Johnston – Tim Washe

Jackson LaCombe – Jacob Trouba
Pavel Mintuykov – Drew Helleson
Olen Zellweger – Radko Gudas
Ian Moore

We’re projecting Lukas Dostal to start in net, backed up by Ville Husso. The projected extra skater is Sam Colangelo.

The Ducks opened 2026 with a five game losing skid. But they’ve also won six in a row since then, so… they’re a bit streaky. But man, they’ve been really strong lately, finding ways to beat a lot of good hockey teams. This is the second game of a western swing; they’ll visit Edmonton on Monday in the back half of a back-to-back set.

The Flames are without Sam Honzek, Jake Bean, John Beecher, Zayne Parekh and Blake Coleman.

The Ducks are without Frank Vatrano, Troy Terry, Petr Mrazek, Leo Carlsson and Mason McTavish.

This is the first of four meetings between the Flames and Ducks this season. They’ll meet again on Mar. 1 in Anaheim, Mar. 26 in Calgary and Apr. 4 again in Anaheim.

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