1. By The Bay<\/p>\n
The Flames landed in San Jose Sunday afternoon ready for the middle act in this three-game road swing, but cognizant too of lessons learned from Saturday’s 5-2 setback in Colorado.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche top line combined for four goals, and while Calgary outchanced their hosts on the evening at 5-on-5, goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood made some pivotal saves to help keep momentum in his club’s favour.<\/p>\n
“I thought we had some stretches where we had some pretty good zone time, but (we were) not able to generate,” Flames Head Coach Ryan Huska commented post-game. “There’s certain hard parts of the game that I felt like we needed more in tonight.”<\/p>\n
Tonight, a different challenge, against a much younger group.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But one commonality between Colorado and San Jose is their pace of play. And in that respect, Huska saw Saturday’s setback as a refresher on how his group needs to play to counteract their opponent’s team speed.<\/p>\n
“There’s areas that we can work on and make sure we’re better for the next time we play this team,” he said of the Avalanche. :The challenge a lot of times is the pressure that you get on them and where you put pucks, and if you let them build it, they’re hard to handle.”<\/p>\n
Goaltender Dustin Wolf is likely to draw back into the starter’s crease Monday after making way for call-up Arsenii Sergeev in Denver. The 23-year-old Russian earned praise from teammates and coaches alike for the 28-save effort in his second career NHL start, which came just a day on from his arrival with the Flames fold from the AHL’s Wranglers.<\/p>\n
“I think he did a good job,” Huska said of Sergeev. “I think he looked a little bit nervous early on, but then he settled in.<\/p>\n
“He made some nice saves as the game went on.”<\/p>\n
A new month.<\/p>\n
In an arena the Flames have found a fair amount of success in, in recent years.<\/p>\n
For Calgary, there’d be no better way to start November with some more happy totals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1. By The Bay The Flames landed in San Jose Sunday afternoon ready for the middle act in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-949911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949911","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=949911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}