Anaheim Ducks beat Calgary Flames 4:2 in an NHL game on 11 October 2026. The visitors built on their early-season momentum while the hosts continued to search for their first win of the campaign.
I'd called for the away side to come out on top at 46 per cent confidence. and here's the thing — when a team has already won three of four, they tend to carry that rhythm into the next fixture. Anaheim had done exactly that, beating Winnipeg 5:1 on Saturday before this one.
Calgary's record tells the story without much embellishment. Four losses, no points, sitting sixteenth in the standings. by then everyone knew what was coming — they've lost to Seattle twice, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Colorado. The Ducks, meanwhile, were fifth with three wins and had only lost to Edmonton 2:5 in their second game.
The final score didn't lie. Anaheim scored four goals to Calgary's two, and the result extended the visitors' winning run while adding another defeat to the hosts' tally. Neither team had accumulated points yet, so the table position shifted nothing at all.
What struck me watching was how the Ducks let the game flow — they didn't travel to make up the numbers and they didn't need to. Calgary, by then, had already shown they gave up the ball and hit them on the break too often this season. The scoreline felt inevitable once you'd seen the pattern.
Four games in and both sides remain on zero points in the standings. That means nothing yet — the season hasn't begun to take shape. But the Ducks now have three wins from four, and Calgary have four losses. The gap between them, for now, is just six games played against each other.
