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Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Trevor Lewis all scored in the third period, leading the Calgary Flames to a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars to ...

Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck in the side of the head at the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a high shot at 13:20. Our whole team just fed off that energy from the fans.” “I haven’t scored much down the stretch here,” Backlund said. He drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove and then off defenseman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s net. “We knew they were going to come hard,” Robertson said.

Beating Oettinger has required pinpoint finishing. Elias Lindholm sniped three goals early in the series when Dallas kept losing him in the slot. Rasmus ...

Markstrom saved Robertson's wrister in tight in Game 5, but the puck deflected in off Noah Hanifin's arm. Rick Bowness' lineup shuffling yielded results in Game 5 when Jason Robertson, demoted to the second line with Tyler Seguin and Jamie Benn, got a fortunate bounce on an odd-man rush. Seguin got the puck as the trailer on a similar rush in Game 4 and beat Markstrom through traffic over his glove. Keep an eye on these three storylines in Game 6 and - if the Stars extend the series - Game 7. The duo connected on Backlund's goal when Mangiapane, thinking shrewdly, spun and passed a loose puck he'd retrieved toward the crease instead of backward to the point. On the first shift of Game 5, Mangiapane beelined down the left wing and took a flip pass from Backlund at the offensive blue line.

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The viewing area is free of charge and open to all ages. “That’s it, then he walked out.” The Flames evened their Round 1 playoff series against the Dallas Stars with an emphatic 4-1 win on Monday night. Wednesday’s Game 5 is a massive opportunity for both teams to take control and get one vital step closer to advancing to Round 2. Article content Article content Article content Stars coach said Flames have brough their game to another level Back to video Article content Follow this page for news updates, player profiles, analysis, photos and tweets throughout the playoffs. Article content Stars coach said Flames have brough their game to another level

Calgary Flames (50-21-11, first in the Pacific Division) vs. Dallas Stars (46-30-6, fourth in the Central Division)

The Flames have scored 291 total goals (3.6 per game) to rank sixth in league play. BOTTOM LINE: The Calgary Flames visit the Dallas Stars in the first round of the NHL Playoffs with a 3-2 lead in the series. The Flames won 3-1 in the previous meeting. Calgary has a 24-11-3 record on the road and a 50-21-11 record overall. Dallas Stars (46-30-6, fourth in the Central Division) Calgary Flames (50-21-11, first in the Pacific Division) vs.

The Stars are facing elimination after allowing three goals in the third period in Game 5.

The Flames had the No. 6 penalty kill in the NHL this season and they play an aggressive style that requires the power play to be in sync and efficient, especially going tape to tape with passes. Still, there were active players, namely the two replacements in Peterson and Studenic, who have shown to have more of an offensive touch for that second unit that looks much too familiar to a penalty-kill group than a power-play one. They actually have two power-play goals, but Seguin’s power-play goal at the end of Game 4 came with the goalie pulled so the Stars had a six-on-four late in a game that was already decided. The Stars’ five-on-five offense is already one of the worst in the NHL, and that’s in the regular season when things aren’t so tight. Having the kind of game he had in Game 5 and scoring a goal should be a big confidence boost. The only other power-play goal the Stars scored was in Game 3, when Pavelski scored on a power-play rush opportunity by finishing a Vlad Namestnikov rebound. Studenic had the better performance, giving the Stars one of their first decent scoring looks in the first period. Suter was the culprit on the game-tying and game-winning goals for Calgary. He replaced Robertson with Michael Raffl, who has had the best series of any Stars forward not named Pavelski. Robertson slid down to the second line with Benn and Seguin. Here’s what the lineup looked like: Short of actually winning the Stanley Cup, no matter what happens in whatever is left of the Stars’ postseason, the big takeaway is that they have their goaltender of the present and the future. Head coach Rick Bowness shuffled the lines, making the big decision to split up the Stars’ top line of Robertson, Roope Hintz and Joe Pavelski. All of this was done with one thing in mind: to free up Robertson and help him get going. After a 3-1 loss in Game 5, the Stars fell behind 3-2 to the Flames in their first-round series.

The Calgary Flames score three goals in the third to take a 3-2 series lead over the Dallas Stars.

You want to manage the puck. “The message was clear — put the (second) period behind us and go out and play our game, play the way we can, believe, just get back to our game and check for our chances. You want to handle the puck. “That line had no pace,” Sutter said when asked about separating his big guns … So what was said after 40 minutes, with the locals having just 16 shots — ditto for Dallas — up to that point? Sutter warned post-game that the fourth win of a series is always the most difficult to come by. “I just wanted to go out there and help the team win,” “It feels a lot better than if we were down,” Backlund said. “He played a good, hard game,” said Flames bench boss Darryl Sutter. “That’s what’s expected of him. Robertson’s shot was actually stopped by Markstrom, but he couldn’t fully squeeze it with his glove and the rebound popped out, bounced off blue-liner Noah Hanifin and wound up in the net … Sutter split his top trio in Wednesday’s middle frame, giving Coleman a look alongside Johnny Gaudreau and Elias Lindholm and bumping Matthew Tkachuk to the second line. The Flames finally solved Oettinger seven minutes into the final frame. It was excited. “But the job is not done, obviously.

The Calgary Flames took over once again in the 3rd period and the Dallas Stars would fall 3-1 in Game 5. Stars are now on the brink of elimination.

The Calgary Flames would win 3-1 and the Stars are on the brink of elimination when they return home Friday night. At the end of the 2nd period, the Stars would take a 1-0 lead going into the final period. The Stars would lead in the faceoffs category 8-6. At the end of the period, the Stars and the Flames would remain scoreless. The Dallas Stars let up on defense once again in the 3rd period and it costs them once again in the playoffs. The Stars and the Flames would tie in the shots on goal category at 7 shots each.

Thanks to great efforts from Andrew Mangiapane and Mikael Backlund, the Calgary Flames are one win away from advancing to the second round.

Though their first road game of the series in Dallas didn’t go as planned, they were able to respond with a big 4-1 win on Monday and will look to do the same in Game 6. When Sutter was first hired in Calgary, many expected the Flames to have a great defensive approach but questioned whether or not they would put up much offence. Though he wasn’t tested a ton, Markstrom once again did what he has done all season long, which is giving the Flames a chance to win each and every game he starts. In order for the Flames to continue having success, that will need to continue. With that being said, their backs are now up against the wall as they head back to Dallas on the brink of elimination. Things changed in a big way in the third period, however.

The Dallas Stars lost 3-1 to the Calgary Flames in game 5 of the first-round series. The Flames now lead the series 3-2 as it heads back to Dallas.

In order for them to move on to the next round, they will need to win back-to-back games for the second time, and scoring more than one goal is likely the first step to doing just that. That is exactly what they will need to do on Friday if they want to keep their season alive and give themselves a chance at a Game 7. Just minutes later, Andrew Mangiapane ripped a wrister past Jake Oettinger after a poor play in the neutral zone by Dallas and the Flames had a 2-1 lead that they would not relinquish. After sitting in the top 10 for most of the year and scoring seemingly every game, this issue remains a mystery. “We didn’t handle the puck well to give us the opportunity to spend time in their zone,” Rick Bowness said. The Stars are in serious trouble.

Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Trevor Lewis all scored in the third period, leading the Calgary Flames to a...

Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck in the side of the head at the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a high shot at 13:20. Our whole team just fed off that energy from the fans.” “I haven’t scored much down the stretch here," Backlund said. He drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove and then off defenseman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s net. “We knew they were going to come hard," Robertson said.

The Flames are now one win away from eliminating the Dallas Stars after winning Game 5 Wednesday night.

“It’s going to feel a lot better than if we were down (in the series),” Backlund said. And they will be in front of a loud home crowd at American Airlines Center. As Sutter said, each win in the playoffs is tougher than the last. There will be a playoff-savvy Dallas team waiting for them on Friday, a team that has given the Flames unexpected issues in this opening round. Since the 2004 Stanley Cup Final run, every time the Flames have lost a Game 5 with the series tied 2-2, they have lost the series. They are there because the Backlund line showed up on Wednesday. But also because Johnny Gaudreau played the hero in Game 4. Backlund was the only player to be on the ice for all three Calgary goals, except for Erik Gudbranson. Shot attempts were 22-13 with Backlund on the ice, and the Flames had around 73 percent of the expected goals. On Wednesday, the Flames made another important move, coming back from a 1-0 deficit to beat the Stars 3-1 at the Saddledome. The franchise that hadn’t turned a tied series into a 3-2 lead in almost two decades — the club has only done it twice since 2004-05 — finally did it. A period away from being down in the first round. Trailing against the Stars in a pivotal Game 5. “It was loud,” Backlund added. The Saddledome was quiet and it was tense, filled with nearly 20,000 fans who had seen this before.

Based on how the Calgary Flames started off Game 5 one would not think that the Flames would have achieved victory, but the Backlund-Mangiapane-Coleman line ...

In The Crease – There are not enough fantastic things to say in both the English and Swedish languages to describe what Jacob Markstrom has played like in the first round this year. Game Score – Finally a game that saw a handful of Flames reach the 2.00 plateau. I may be a downer in this section – I want more from the crease. Add in that nice little fake to avoid a stick check before making a tape-to-tape backhand pass to Mangiapane before he sniped the leading goal home. The wake up point is quite clearly defined on this chart – when the Stars took the lead the Flames woke up. Zadorov (2.95 game // 0.64 average), Mangiapane (2.78 // 1.00), Gudbranson (2.67 // 0.57), Backlund (2.58 // 0.74), and Coleman (2.19 // 0.71). As friend of the program Mike Gould pointed out – please leave the 88-11-20 trio together. The Stars scored first on a defensive mix-around between an oncoming winger and Chris Tanev, winger read the play wrong and covered the wrong man leading to a 2 on 1 for the Stars. The first period saw the Stars put up 4 high-danger chances to the Flames none – not really a tone one would aim to set in a huge Game 5. It’s a Team Game – The Flames did ultimately end up with the W, but they did not get off to the start they would have ideally wanted. Blake Coleman (54.13%) did the work down low to get possession, but Mange made a beautiful heads up pass to Backlund for the tying goal. The whole system works better when Calgary uses short passes to exit the zone and moves as a five man unit through coverage. Calgary had a rough time hitting the net in the first period, but they also only took shots from a distance too. Based on how the Calgary Flames started off Game 5 one would not think that the Flames would have achieved victory, but the Backlund-Mangiapane-Coleman line became the heroes the C of Red were looking for.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Trevor Lewis all scored in the third period, leading the Calgary Flames to a 3-1 victory over ...

Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck in the side of the head at the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a high shot at 13:20. Our whole team just fed off that energy from the fans.” “I haven’t scored much down the stretch here,” Backlund said. He drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove and then off defenseman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s net. “We knew they were going to come hard,” Robertson said.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Trevor Lewis all scored in the third period, leading the Calgary Flames to a 3-1 victor...

Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck in the side of the head at the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a high shot at 13:20. Our whole team just fed off that energy from the fans.” “I haven’t scored much down the stretch here,” Backlund said. He drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove and then off defenseman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s net. “We knew they were going to come hard,” Robertson said.

CALGARY — Darryl Sutter isn't about to reveal his plans for a potential series-clinching game, but the Calgary Flames have won back-to-back playoff games ...

When asked ahead of Game 5 if he would continue with 11 and seven, Sutter replied "Why would I answer it? We'll talk about our starting lineups so it's friendly for the media." Even-strength goals have been a chore for both sides with a combined eight in five games. The difficult part of coaching against it is that you're going to see more of their top-end guys. The trio was a winning combination. "I've done that 11-7 before.

The Calgary Flames got up off the mat in the third period of their Game 5 against Dallas last night. Trailing 1-0 and not having scored at home in the ...

The Night Mangiapane Saved The Flames. But it’s hard to see that oasis in the moment, with Douche Canoe’s arm around you yelling in your ear. She’s looking for it, in the distance. The Avs are still in the distance. It feels like almost everyone in the Saddledome stands isn’t just wearing red, but wearing a Flames jersey. You can sense the dread that she’ll have to hear about how important that goal was and what a season Mangiapane has had on the ride home or the walk to the bar, when she knows all that. Mikael Backlund tipped home a gorgeous Andrew Mangiapane feed through the forest to tie it:

The Calgary Flames will be opening up the Saddleddome parking lot to fans on Friday as the team looks to close out the series against the Dallas Stars.

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The Calgary Flames moved one win away from a trip to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs on Wednesday night when they beat the Dallas Stars 3-1.

Toffoli is tied for second on the team (with Dillon Dube) in scoring chances this series at five-on-five and is second in expected goals, trailing only Johnny Gaudreau in those two metrics. He led the Flames in shot attempts and scoring chances at five-on-five in Game 5. It was a fairly low-event 5-5 game in terms of high-danger chances – only Game 4 really leapt off the page in this respect – but the swings are pretty evident in this stat line.

From three to two games in the quarterfinals of the Best of Seven Conference, Flames concludes the series with a Game 6 victory in Dallas on Friday, allowing ...

“I ran a lot 11-7 times in Tampa, whereas the hard part of coaching is that you’ll meet more of their top-end people. The trio was a winning combination. He states that he was adopted on a daily basis at that time. Believe me that it works. “ From three to two games in the quarterfinals of the Best of Seven Conference, Flames concludes the series with a Game 6 victory in Dallas on Friday, allowing him to advance to the second round of the playoffs for the first time in 17 years.

Darryl Sutter isn't about to reveal his plans for Game 6, but the Flames have won back-to-back with the coach taking from his forwards and giving to his ...

I know it works,” said Stars head coach Rick Bowness, who said it was routinely employed when he was an associate coach with the Tampa Bay Lightning from 2014 to 2018. The difficult part of coaching against it is that you’re going to see more of their top-end guys. Even-strength goals have been a chore for both sides with a combined eight in five games. The trio was a winning combination. Stone banked a combined 20 minutes in the two games he’s played, logged just under five minutes on the power play, and led the Flames in shots on goal in each with eight and four respectively. Up three games to two in the best-of-seven conference quarterfinal, the Flames could close out the series — and advance to the second round of playoffs for just the second time in 17 years — with a Game 6 win in Dallas on Friday.