Calgary Flames

Dillon Dube had a goal and three assists for Calgary and Tyler Toffoli had two goals and an assist. Jakob Pelletier, Mikael Backlund, Nazem Kadri and Dennis ...

Toffoli made it 5-2 1:57 into the third on a tap-in and scored his second of the game to make it 6-2 with 6:55 remaining. Andersson is one of Calgary’s top defensemen and has 34 points on the season. Andersson has been considered day to day and isn’t expected to miss a significant amount of time. “We had a good second and third.” But the Flames quickly struck again, making it 4-2 20 seconds later on Kadri’s shot through traffic for his 20th goal of the season. “It just felt like everything kind of kept coming in waves and we did a really good job,” Toffoli said.

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Let’s give it jointly to the Kadri, Pelletier and Huberdeau line. Dillon Dube made a nice drop-pass to a pinching Dennis Gilbert, and Gilbert’s shot beat Luukkonen low to give the Flames a 3-2 lead. But the Flames roared back in the second period. Off a rush play, Dube found Tyler Toffoli at the far post and set him up with a nice pass for a redirection goal. The Flames made it 4-2 midway through the period after Kadri redirected a Chris Tanev point shot past Luukkonen. With Brett Ritchie in the penalty box, Tage Thompson leaned into a shot from Jacob Markstrom’s right on the power play that was wired over his shoulder to give Buffalo a 1-0 lead.

So when he scored the first goal of his NHL career on Saturday afternoon against the Buffalo Sabres (26-21-4), it wasn't just that you could see how much it ...

And it’s a whole lot of fun when they’re firing the way they were Saturday. They played pretty well against the New York Rangers earlier this week but wound up with an overtime loss. Twenty seconds later, Mikael Backlund tied things up. It’s a long season, it’s good to see different things happen.” “I said it all along about that kid, I said it at training camp and I’ve said it over and over again, he’s got the energy and he’s got the spirit for the game. Article content

Score: Sabres 2 | Flames 7. Shots: BUF 23 | CGY 40. Buffalo Sabres Goals: Tage Thompson (35), Casey Mittelstadt (8). Calgary Flames Goals: Jakob Pelletier ...

Every game is a big one for the Sabres going forward at this point in the season, and this was a big disappointment. The bad news: half of the Flames’ shots went in that period, with three goals on six shots. The third period didn’t get any better, though the Sabres did squeak out 14 shots on goal to Calgary’s six. All of a sudden, the Sabres were very much behind, failing to put shots on net or find the back of it. If I’m Don Granato, I’m calling my timeout then to give the players a chance to settle. As I said, the Sabres were lucky to come out of the first period with a 2-0 lead.

After 40 minutes of play, the Flames outshot the Sabres 34-9 as they opened up a 4-2 lead heading into the final frame.

So when he scored the first goal of his NHL career on Saturday afternoon against the Buffalo Sabres (26-21-4), it wasn't just that you could see how much it ...

And it’s a whole lot of fun when they’re firing the way they were Saturday. They played pretty well against the New York Rangers earlier this week but wound up with an overtime loss. Twenty seconds later, Mikael Backlund tied things up. It’s a long season, it’s good to see different things happen.” “I said it all along about that kid, I said it at training camp and I’ve said it over and over again, he’s got the energy and he’s got the spirit for the game. Article content

After a couple of losses its nice to play a game where the bounces sta...

Player Spotlight – Jakob Pelletier – The first of many I’m sure congratulations Jakob on your first NHL goal. Luck for Markstrom the Sabres only managed to get 4 total in the first half of the game. The Sabres really played quite bad – but the Flames needed that badly. Back in his hometown with family – including his grandmother – in the building? The Flames took their time – made dangerous passes on the rush – and created chaos around the crease frequently. Taken By Chance – I’ll get the one negative out of the way – Michael Stone (36.40 SCF% // 19.86 HDCF%) saw 4 high danger chances against and only helped create 1. The positive to follow is every single forward won their match-ups – Weegar (85.98% // 87.77%) and Kadri (67.73% // 70.91%) with over 6 high danger chances involved each. Most encouraging was the heavy push in the third to pile on the lead instead of playing it safe. If the Flames D ever gets truly to full strength I like to keep this pair together and see the other guy (ideally Kylington) with Tanev. Corsi Clown – Dennis Gilbert (45.74%) and Michael Stone (48.05%) were the only guys under 50% and it was marginal. The Calgary Flames took advantage of Buffalo’s bad rush defence and inability to defend in front of their net. Only one player actually ended up finishing on the lower half of ratios I cover.