Gabriel Vilardi scored his first goal of the season and also had an assist for the Jets (6-2-0), who were coming off a 3-0 loss to the Seattle Kraken on Thursday but have won six of seven. Mark Scheifele had two assists, and Eric Comrie made 30 saves.<\/p>\n
Blake Coleman and Mikael Backlund each had a goal and an assist, and Nazem Kadri also scored for the Flames (1-7-1), who have been outscored 31-12 during their losing streak. Dustin Wolf made 27 saves.<\/p>\n
Kadri gave the Flames a 1-0 lead at 5:18 of the first period, scoring on the power play with a one-timer from the right circle.<\/p>\n
Kyle Connor tied it 1-1 at 5:19 of the second period while the teams were skating at 4-on-4. Morrissey made a move around MacKenzie Weegar in the neutral zone, allowing him to skate in on a 2-on-1 and pass to Connor, who scored with a one-timer from the right circle.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Toews put the Jets ahead 2-1 at 6:24. He won a face-off back to Morrissey, who carried it down to the goal line before sending a centering pass to the top of the crease, where Toews redirected it into the net.<\/p>\n
Calgary challenged the play for goaltender interference, but the goal was upheld following a video review.<\/p>\n
Vilardi pushed it to 3-1 at 9:50, scoring a power-play goal with a quick backhand from below the left circle. It was his first goal in eight games this season after he scored 27 in 71 games last season.<\/p>\n
Backlund cut it to 3-2 at 13:56. Coleman spun to deliver a short backhand pass to Backlund, who finished a mini breakaway with a backhand-to-forehand deke.<\/p>\n
Alex Iafallo responded with another power-play goal to make it 4-2 at 18:50. Vilardi caught a pass along the goal line, spun and sent a backhand feed to Iafallo for a one-timer in the low slot.<\/p>\n
Coleman got the Flames to within 4-3 at 8:27 of the third period. He scored from all alone in front off a centering pass from Backlund, who was along side boards.<\/p>\n
The Flames had a chance to tie it late after Haydn Fleury was assessed a minor penalty for cross-checking at 17:10, but they failed to convert on the power play, and Vladislav Namestnikov scored into an empty net with eight seconds left for the 5-3 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Vilardi scored his first goal of the season and also had an assist for the Jets (6-2-0),…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-239030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}