SECOND PERIOD
After the Oilers looked like they had the edge in the opening 20 minutes, the Flames regrouped during the intermission and adjusted well to have a much stronger middle stanza, where they pounced on the Oilers to build themselves a comfortable three-goal lead going into the final frame.
Oilers 2025 fourth-round pick David Lewandowski had the Blue & Orange’s best chance of a quiet second period when he shook off coverage at the top of the offensive zone and fired a long shot from the top of the right circle that struck the far post through a screen set by winger Quinn Hutson.
The Flames capitalized at 13:21 of the stanza to take the 2-1 lead on a lost puck from Brady Stonehouse coming back over his own team’s blueline, which resulted in Jacob Battaglia quickly throwing the puck towards goal for Nathan Brisson to deflect over the shoulder of Jonsson.
The Swedish netminder, who starred for BIK Karlskoga in his first full professional season last year in HockeyAllsvenskan, the country’s second division, made a terrific stop on Calgary’s first power play a minute later on Aydar Suniev, but the Flames would double their lead before the man advantage ended.
Calgary forward Sam Honzek had a lucky deflection go off his skate and past Jonsson at the right post on a cross-ice pass attempt from the blueline to make it 3-1, and the Flames would add another before the break when Suniev got his revenge on the Oilers netminder with a one-time off the rush from the slot with 1:39 remaining in the frame, leaving the Blue & Orange down by three entering the third period.