Calgary doesn't have the same problem, because Calgary's issues are not about legs. The Flames are 1-6-0 and our own recap of the 6-2 loss in Vegas laid it out plainly: they have given up 4 or more goals in every loss, and the comeback in Anaheim looked more like a pause in the slide than the end of it. Over their last 5 they have been outscored 25-12. Ryan Huska's team will have been sitting at home waiting while Carolina was playing in Winnipeg, and that's the only scheduling edge on their side.
The scoring tells the story in Calgary. Through 6 games Morgan Frost led the team with 2 goals, and Matt Coronato and Joel Farabee led in points with 3 each. That's not a lineup that wins a track meet, and Carolina has been running one every night. The Flames need a tight, low-event game, which is exactly what they haven't played this month. They also have one more reason to want this one: it's the last season at the Saddledome before the move to Scotia Place, and nobody wants to send the old building off with a 1-7 start.
Calgary's absences hurt in a different way. Jonathan Huberdeau is on injured reserve with a hip injury and Samuel Honzek is week-to-week with a lower-body injury, which pulls 2 left wingers out of a lineup that was already short on finishing. Carolina's injury list is longer, but the Hurricanes have kept rolling 4 lines through it. If anything swings this game, it's the Saturday-to-Sunday turnaround: the goalie Carolina starts on Sunday and how the first period goes once the travel catches up. A rested Flames team with a full building behind it gets its best shot at a heavy favorite on tired legs. What it does with that shot is the open question.