The Flames didn\u2019t have a ton of scary-good chances, but they dominated play.<\/p>\n
First period shots were 13-1 Flames. Via Natural Stat Trick, 5v5 scoring chances were 19-1 Flames and high-danger scoring chances were 8-0 Flames.<\/p>\n
The Flames opened the scoring 5:46 into the second period. Sam Dickinson coughed up the puck just inside the Sharks\u2019 blueline and an alert Blake Coleman snatched the loose puck away from the teenager, skated in and beat Sharks netminder Yaroslav Askarov. That gave the Flames a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd25FLAMES GOAL\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n
Blake Coleman takes advantage of a brutal Sharks turnover and goes bar down! That’s his team leading 7th goal. <\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfa5: Sportsnet | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n The Sharks were a little better in the second than they were in the first, but the Flames still carried play.<\/p>\n Second period shots were 15-4 Flames. 5v5 scoring chances were 15-4 Flames and high-danger scoring chances were 5-2 Flames.<\/p>\n The Sharks generated more in the third period than they did in the rest of the game, but they couldn\u2019t solve Dustin Wolf.<\/p>\n Sam Honzek scored on an empty net with 4.2 seconds left in regulation to give the Flames a 2-0 lead, and the win.<\/p>\n Third period shots were 10-9 Sharks.<\/p>\n Why the Flames won<\/p>\n For the vast majority of this hockey game, San Jose was really fighting it offensively. The Flames were pretty good at using sticks and positioning to disrupt whatever the Sharks were trying to do offensively, but the Sharks did their best to make it easy for them.<\/p>\n This game was as much the Sharks being not especially good as it was the Flames being pretty decent.<\/p>\n Red Warrior<\/p>\n Let\u2019s go with Dustin Wolf, who pitched a shutout.<\/p>\n Turning point<\/p>\n We\u2019ll go with Coleman\u2019s game-winning goal in the second period.<\/p>\n This and that<\/p>\n Rory Kerins made his season debut, swapping onto Nazem Kadri\u2019s line and bumping Yegor Sharangovich to the press box.<\/p>\n For awhile, it looked the Flames were going to flirt with the fewest shots they\u2019ve allowed in a game \u2013 they\u2019ve held a team to 12 shots on goal eight times, most recently in 2004.<\/p>\n After Burner<\/p>\n Join Mike Gould and Robert Munnich right after the game for After Burner!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n The Flames (5-12-2) are back in action on Saturday night when they host the Winnipeg Jets.<\/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":282194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-282193","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\/282193","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=282193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}