Afrigather ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Tyler Toffoli had three assists, Calgary scored twice on the ability play and the Flames bounced again from a six-goal loss one night time earlier with a 5-1 victory over the Anaheim Geese on Tuesday.
Toffoli has 9 factors prior to now 4 video games, together with six assists.
Nick Ritchie, Troy Stecher, Rasmus Andersson, Elias Lindholm and Andrew Mangiapane scored Calgary’s targets. Mikael Backlund had a pair of assists and Dan Vladar stopped 19 photographs for the Flames, who rebounded from an 8-2 defeat Monday night time in Los Angeles.
“We simply wished to place that sport behind us. And there’s no higher method to put it behind you than to only go on the market and play immediately,” mentioned Mangiapane, who scored on a breakaway with lower than 5 minutes remaining for his twelfth of the season. “I feel the primary interval set the tone for us. We wished to return out robust and arduous and simply hold constructing off of that.”
The win stored Calgary 4 factors behind Winnipeg for the ultimate wild card within the Western Convention with 10 video games remaining after the Jets beat Arizona 2-1.
“As a coach it’s actually easy: I simply need to hold each sport significant,” Flames coach Darryl Sutter mentioned.
Frank Vatrano scored Anaheim’s lone aim. John Gibson made 38 saves, dealing with greater than 40 photographs for the twentieth time this season.
“We knew that they have been going to be slightly ornery after their sport final night time towards L.A., and aside from a couple of spurts within the second interval, possibly for about six minutes within the second, we couldn’t maintain a lot. Each time we turned, they have been in our face,” Geese coach Dallas Eakins mentioned.
Calgary has 12 targets with the person benefit over the previous month, which is fifth within the NHL.
Andersson put Calgary up 3-0 lower than three minutes into the third interval on a one-timer off Toffoli’s go. It was Andersson’s eleventh aim and his third prior to now six video games.
The Flames grabbed the lead 37 seconds into the sport when Ritchie put within the rebound after Gibson made a pad save on Noah Hanifin’s shot from the purpose. Ritchie’s twelfth of the season marked the sixth time Calgary has scored within the opening minute.
Stecher broke a 90-game aim drought at 16:50 of the primary with a snap shot from the appropriate faceoff circle to the excessive facet of the far submit. Stecher — whose final aim was on Feb. 17, 2022 — has three factors (one aim, two assists) since being acquired from Arizona on the commerce deadline.
Anaheim bought on the board 5 minutes later when Vatrano lifted a wrist shot over Vladar’s shoulder on his glove facet. Vatrano’s seventeenth marked solely the second aim in Anaheim’s final 15 power-play alternatives.
Lindholm scored his twenty first and gave Calgary a 4-1 lead 46 seconds into the third on a one-timer.
NOTES: Hanifin prolonged his level streak to 6 video games with the primary help on Ritchie’s aim. He has six factors (two targets, 4 assists) throughout that span. … Calgary defenseman Chris Tanev was scratched an hour earlier than the sport as a result of an upper-body harm. … Anaheim ahead Nikita Nesterenko made his NHL debut. Nesterenko was acquired from Minnesota within the John Klingberg commerce on the deadline. Nesterenko performed three seasons at Boston Faculty and signed a two-year, entry-level contract final Wednesday.
UP NEXT
Flames: Open a three-game homestand towards the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday.
Geese: Host the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday.
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