A few minutes later, the Blues scored again. The Flames had the puck in the offensive zone, with Yan Kuznetsov jumping into the rush. But the Flames turned over the puck. Oskar Sundqvist noticed Matthew Kessel open in the neutral zone and made a great pass to send him in with a clean shooting lane on Wolf. Kessel\u2019s shot beat Wolf to give the Blues a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
First period shots were 14-10 Blues. Via Natural Stat Trick, 5v5 scoring chances were 7-7 and high-danger scoring chances were 5-2 Blues.<\/p>\n
Midway through the second period, the Blues scored on an awkward sequence. The Flames won an offensive zone draw but lost the puck. Alexey Toropchenko got a one-handed scoring chance after being sprung into the Flames zone by a flip-pass across the neutral zone. But Wolf couldn\u2019t corral the puck after Toropchenko\u2019s chance, and a scramble in front led to Nathan Walker jamming the loose puck into the net to give the Blues a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
St. Louis desperately wants to win this toilet bowl. <\/p>\n
3-0 Blues <\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n But then the Flames scored twice in 25 seconds, just as we all expected.<\/p>\n Brayden Pachal sent Matt Coronato in with a clean shooting lane on Jordan Binnington. Coronato\u2019s shot beat Binnington to cut the lead to 3-1 Blues.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd25FLAMES GOAL\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n Matt Coronato breaks the Flames goalless drought!! <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n On the very next shift, Rasmus Andersson\u2019s point shot \u2013 with a decent amount of traffic \u2013 beat Binnington high glove side to cut the Blues lead to 3-2.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd25FLAMES GOAL\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n Rasmus Andersson cuts the St Louis lead to one! <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n Second period shots were 14-10 Flames. 5v5 scoring chances were 7-5 Blues and high-danger scoring chances were 4-1 Blues.<\/p>\n The Flames had a late second period power play that spilled over into the third period. They had four shots on that advantage, but couldn\u2019t beat Binnington again to tie the game.<\/p>\n The Blues thought they scored on a goal-mouth scramble early in the third period, but the officials waved the goal off due to goaltender interference.<\/p>\n The Flames kept pressing throughout the third period, even pulling Wolf for the extra attacker. But they just couldn\u2019t solve Binnington, and the Blues held on for a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n Third period shots were 16-7 Flames. 5v5 scoring chances were 4-3 Blues and high-danger scoring chances were 2-1 Flames.<\/p>\n Why the Flames lost<\/p>\n The good news is that the Flames scored.<\/p>\n The bad news is that they couldn\u2019t out-score their mistakes. They battled, but their execution was a bit off throughout this game and if you look back at the goals they allowed, they all came off either puck management miscues or ill-timed penalties. In other words: the same story we\u2019ve seen throughout the first 18 games of this season.<\/p>\n The Flames weren\u2019t bad in this hockey game, but they just weren\u2019t good enough to win.<\/p>\n Red Warrior<\/p>\n Matt Coronato was really noticeable in this game and it was nice to see him rewarded with a goal given how many chances he seemed to generate.<\/p>\n Turning point<\/p>\n The Flames have struggled to generate a ton of offence at five-on-five this season. They entered the third period down by just a goal and they had a power play. They\u00a0really needed a goal there given how the game was going. Unfortunately, their power play couldn\u2019t capitalize and they never got the tying goal.<\/p>\n This and that<\/p>\n Dustin Wolf was in net after backing up Devin Cooley on Sunday in Minnesota.<\/p>\n After Burner<\/p>\n Join Ryan Pinder and myself right after the game for After Burner!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n The Flames (4-12-2) are headed home. They host the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night.<\/p>\n This article is brought to you by Platinum MitsubishiThis article is a Presentation of Platinum Mitsubishi, family owned and operated by lifelong Calgarians. Home of the best warranty in the business with ten year warranties available. Check out the showroom at 2720 Barlow Trail NE or online at www.mitsu.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight\u2019s Calgary Flames game and ask…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-278244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}