NHL: CHICAGO (11-9) at CALGARY (9-12) <h3>Blackhawks' road trip continues at Calgary</h3> <div class="pre">Chicago (11-8-1) at Calgary (9-9-3) 9:00 pm EST</div> CALGARY, Alberta (Ticker) -- Scoring goals might have been aproblem for the Chicago Blackhawks in recent years, but thathasn't been the case so far this season. Chicago looks to continue its strong offensive play on Thursdaywhen it meets the Calgary Flames for the first time this season.The teams have split four meetings in each of the last threeseasons. The Blackhawks finished next-to-last in the league last seasonwith 2.38 goals per game, but are in the top 10 this year with3.05 goals a contest. Patrick Sharp, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Jason Williamshave combined for 32 goals and 72 points. The Blackhawks havescored five or more goals in five of their 20 games afteraccomplishing the feat seven times all of last season. Chicago did it again on Sunday, improving to 4-0-0 againstCentral Division-leading Detroit with a 5-3 victory in the thirdgame of a six-game road trip. Sharp leads Chicago with 10 goals, scoring four in the last twogames. He failed to score in four games against Calgary lastseason and has just two assists in seven appearances against theFlames. Calgary won for the third time in four games on Tuesday, 4-1 athome over Colorado. The Flames improved to 6-5-2 at thePengrowth Saddledome after finishing a league-best 30-9-2 athome last season.
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">NHL AT CALGARY STARTING GOALIES: CHI - NIKOLAI KHABIBULIN CGY - MIIKKA KIPRUSOFF OFFICIALS: REF - BILL MCCREARY, MARC JOANNETTE LIN - MARK WHEELER, SCOTT CHERRY</div>
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">CHICAGO VS CALGARY - SCRATCHES CHICAGO CALGARY J WILLIAMS GROIN M NILSON CONCUSSION M JOHANSSON HEALTHY M SMITH HEALTHY D HALE HEALTHY</div>
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">NHL END OF THE 1ST 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL --- --- --- ----- CHICAGO 0 0 CALGARY 0 0 END OF THE 1ST GOAL SCORING: 1ST PRD: NONE SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL --- --- --- ----- CHI 7 7 CGY 5 5 GOALIES: CHI - NIKOLAI KHABIBULIN CGY - MIIKKA KIPRUSOFF</div>
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">------------------------ Chicago 0 --0 Calgary 0 --0 ------------------------ FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: None. Penalties: A Eriksson, Cgy (hooking), 2:44; J Vandermeer, Chi (tripping), 8:46; T Ruutu, Chi (holding), 18:28. Shots on goal: ----------------------------- Chicago 7 --7 Calgary 5 --5 ----------------------------- Goalies : Chicago, Nikolai Khabibulin (5 shots, 5 saves). Calgary, Miikka Kiprusoff (7 shots, 7 saves). Referees: Bill Mccreary, Marc Joannette. Linesmen: Mark Wheeler, Scott Cherry.</div>
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 1 CALGARY 0 2ND PRD: CHI - (SH) JACOB DOWELL 1 (UNASSISTED) 5:29</div>
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">NHL CHICAGO 1 CALGARY 1 2ND PRD: CGY - (PP) JAROME IGINLA 13 (DION PHANEUF, CRAIG CONROY) 12:17</div>
NHL: CHICAGO at CALGARY <div class="pre">NHL END OF THE 2ND 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL --- --- --- ----- CHICAGO 0 1 1 CALGARY 0 1 1 END OF THE 2ND GOAL SCORING: 1ST PRD: NONE 2ND PRD: CHI - (SH) JACOB DOWELL 1 (UNASSISTED) 5:29 CGY - (PP) JAROME IGINLA 13 (DION PHANEUF, CRAIG CONROY) 12:17 SHOTS ON GOAL: 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL --- --- --- ----- CHI 7 5 12 CGY 5 10 15 GOALIES: CHI - NIKOLAI KHABIBULIN CGY - MIIKKA KIPRUSOFF</div>
