Poehling also had an assist for the Ducks (4-1-0), who won their second straight game. LaCombe, Frank Vatrano and Nikita Nesterenko also scored, and Ville Husso made 27 saves in his first start of the season.
“It’s always nice to start with the win,” Husso said. “I think we battled though all 60 minutes. A couple guys dropped from the lineup and big guys stepping in there. They battled hard, played hard, didn’t give anything easy for us. We had to earn it today, so a lot of credit for our guys playing back-to-back and not giving too many good looks for them.”
Aydar Suniev scored his first NHL goal for the Flames (0-5-0), who are the only team in the NHL without a point this season. Matt Coronato had two assists, and Wolf made 24 saves.
The Flames are 0-5-0 for the first time in franchise history.
“I think every game we’ve played this year, we’ve slowly been getting better and that’s the most important thing,” Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. “If you get better every day and you commit to what you’re supposed to do and you focus on your process and how you’re supposed to handle things and what you look like when you’re winning games, eventually we’ll start seeing points in the win column.”
LaCombe scored on the power play at 10:02 of the first period to put the Ducks up 1-0. After Judd Caulfield fanned on a pass from Leo Carlsson, the puck went right to LaCombe, who lifted a shot over Wolf’s blocker.
“(I was) just trying to follow the play there and the puck kind of fell through there and then just out front, so definitely lucky,” Lacombe said.