Flames Gameday: Calgary looks to upset another top-tier team in the Colorado Avalanche to end a four-game road trip

Now do it again.

The Calgary Flames drummed up an impressive 7-4 victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday in the first of two games on consecutive nights against Central Division powerhouses.

The follow-up will be Saturday’s clash with the Colorado Avalanche to end a four-game road swing in which the Flames have won two of three outings.

With a victory, Calgary (8-9-3) would jump into the Western Conference's second wild-card spot.

It won’t be an easy task against the Avalanche (13-6-0), who are third in the league offensively and have won six of eight games in the Mile High City.

Here’s a look at Calgary’s expected lineup:
Forwards:
Yegor Sharangovich-Elias Lindholm-Andrew Mangiapane
Jonathan Huberdeau-Mikael Backlund-Blake Coleman
Connor Zary-Nazem Kadri-Martin Pospisil
A.J. Greer-Adam Ruzicka-Dillon Dube
Extra: Walker Duehr.
Defence:
MacKenzie Weegar-Rasmus Andersson
Noah Hanifin-Chris Tanev
Nikita Zadorov-Denis Gilbert
Extra: Nick DeSimone
Goal:
Dan Vladar
Jacob Markstrom
Against the Avalanche, Vladar has a career 1-1-0 record with a 2.53 goals-against average and .925 save percentage.

Here is the expected roster for Colorado:
Forwards:
Valeri Nichushkin-Nathan MacKinnon-Mikko Rantanen
Tomas Tatar-Ryan Johansen-Jonathan Drouin
Miles Wood-Ross Colton-Riley Tufte
Andrew Cogliano-Fredrik Olofsson-Joel Kiviranta
Defence:
Devon Toews-Cale Makar
Bowen Byram-Josh Manson
Jack Johnson-Caleb Jones
Goal:
Ivan Prosvetov
Alexandar Georgiev
With Georgiev playing last night, the Avs are likely to start Prosvetsov, who has never faced the Flames in his career. He has a 1-1-0 record this season with a 2.90 GAA and .899 SvPct. 

ICE CHIPS: Avalanche F Valeri Nichushkin has scored seven goals in a six-game spree … LW Tomas Tatar did not play Friday’s game against the Minnesota Wild but is expected to suit up for this clash ... For all their success, the Avalanche have been guilty this season of starting slowly. They have been outscored 19-15 in first periods, but have put together a 32-15 edge in the third period. Colorado has a 5-5-0 record in games tied or when trailing through two periods ... The Avs have won 10 games when outscoring their opponents by three or more goals.