Penguins vs. Flames Scouting Report

SCOUTING REPORT

GAME NOTES

PLAYER PROFILES

Alex Tanguay
	LW  -  #40   2010-11 Stats: 22 Goals   47 Assists   69 Points
• After leading the Flames with 47 assists last season, the team signed the 31-year-old first-line winger to a five-year, $17.5 million contract extension on June 25. • Although best known for his playmaking skills, Tanguay has proven he has good shooting ability – as evidenced by his league-leading 10 shootout goals in 2010-11 (out of 16 attempts) for a 62.5-percent success rate. • His 69 points last season were his most since he began his first stint with the Flames in 2006-07, where he netted a career-high 81 points (22G-59A).
Lee Stempniak
	RW -  #22   2010-11 Stats: 19 Goals   19 Assists   38 Points
• The 28-year-old forward – projected to play right wing on a line with left wing Curtis Glencross and center Olli Jokinen – was acquired on Aug. 29 from Phoenix in exchange for winger Daymond Langkow. • Was red-hot for Phoenix after Toronto traded him there at the 2010 deadline; he scored 14 goals in 18 games for the Coyotes to give him a career-high 28 total tallies on the season. • Played four collegiate seasons for Dartmouth from 2001-05, where he studied finance and even interned for Goldman Sachs on Wall Street one summer.
Jay Bouwmeester
	D  -  #4   2010-11 Stats:   4goals   20 assists   24 points
• The incredibly durable blueliner – who averaged a team-leading 25:59 minutes per game last season – currently has the NHL’s longest ironman streak (505 games) dating back to the 2003-04 season – and is the all-time ironman streak holder among NHL defenseman. • With 635 career NHL games under his belt, the 28-year-old Bouwmeester is the longest-tenured player in the league without a single playoff game on his resume. • The smooth-skating defenseman with solid puck-moving skills, who scored a combined 42 goals from 2006-09, is in the third season of a five-year extension inked in 2009 with Calgary.

• The Penguins have won four consecutive games against the Flames, including their previous two visits to Calgary. During their four-game winning streak against the Flames, the Penguins have surrendered a total of just four goals.

• A win Saturday by the Penguins would establish the team’s longest all-time winning streak against the Flames. Pittsburgh has won four straight against the Flames on three previous occasions, including their current run, which began with a 3-2 win on Dec. 6, 2007 at the Saddledome (Mar. 3, 1992-Jan. 23, 1993; Dec. 16, 1972-Oct. 12, 1973).

• A win Saturday would make the Penguins 2-0 for the 10th time in franchise history and second time in three years. It would also mark just the third time in team history that the Penguins have won back-to-back consecutive road games to begin a season 2-0 (1998-99; 1994-95).

• With their 4-3 shootout win at Vancouver on Oct. 6, the Penguins have now won four consecutive road openers and five of their previous six dating back to 2006.

• D Kris Letang has scored the game-deciding shootout goal in each of the Penguins’ three all-time shootout wins in Western Canada (Oct. 7, 2011 at Vancouver, 4-3; Dec. 8, 2007 at Vancouver, 2-1; Dec. 6, 2007 at Calgary, 3-2).

• The Penguins have now won seven straight shootouts dating back to last season. During that stretch, Pittsburgh has outscored its opponents by a 10-1 margin. Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury has stopped 10 straight attempts dating back to last season. He is 6-0 in his last six shootouts, stopping 16 of the 17 shots he has faced.

• Calgary finished last season with the league's second-best power play at home, clicking at a 25.6-percent success rate. On the road, however, the Flames had the league's second-worst power play, clicking at a 13.3-percent success rate. Overall, Calgary's power play finished No. 8 in the NHL.

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