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After 5 days off, the red snake is ready to rise again. I'm hoping the break energized the players, instead of making them complacent. The red snake is currently on pace for 86 points. This is not good enough. It will need 37 points in the last 26 games. That's a 18-7-1 record, or 1.423 PPG. This is your frequent reminder that the black line is 1.171 PPG.

The rest of February looks like this:
vs. Arizona (18-28-7) Arizona plays in Edmonton the next night
vs. Philadelphia (27-22-7) Philadelphia plays in Edmonton the next night
at Vancouver (25-25-6) Vancouver plays Philadelphia at home the next night
at Nashville (27-21-8)
at Tampa Bay (25-24-7)
at Florida (24-20-10) 2nd game of back to back for Calgary
at Carolina (24-22-7)
vs. Los Angeles (28-23-4) LA plays in Minnesota the night before

Here are the teams' records, since I posted the records on January 26th.
Calgary (3-1-0)
vs. Arizona (2-2-1)
vs. Philadelphia (2-3-1)
at Vancouver (2-4-0)
at Nashville (3-4-0)
at Tampa Bay (3-2-1)
at Florida (3-1-0)
at Carolina (3-2-0)
vs. Los Angeles (4-2-0)

Having the next three games against teams start back to back, is annoying, but this may help us. Edmonton and Philadelphia have better records, so we could be getting the backups for those games. The other positive is that none of the teams Calgary is about to playing outstanding in the last couple weeks. None of the next four games have winning records, but the last four teams do. Of the remaining opponents in February, LA holds the best record over the last 10 games at 6-4-0. It's nice we aren't drawing Washington and NY Rangers on this road trip, as both are 8-2-0 in the last 10.