{"id":354837,"date":"2025-12-19T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354837\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:36:11","slug":"backlund-scores-twice-flames-rally-past-kraken-despite-daccords-42-saves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354837\/","title":{"rendered":"Backlund scores twice, Flames rally past Kraken despite Daccord\u2019s 42 saves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Coronato scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period, and Nazem Kadri had a goal and an assist for the Flames (14-17-4), who had lost two of three after winning three straight. Dustin Wolf made 21 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Chandler Stephenson and Kaapo Kakko scored for the Kraken (12-14-6), who have lost four straight games and have gone 1-9-1 in their previous 11.<\/p>\n<p>Kadri tied it 2-2 on the power play at 10:04 of the third period after he one-timed a pass from Andersson past Daccord.<\/p>\n<p>Coronato scored 1:15 later to give Calgary a 3-2 lead at 11:19. He took a pass from Andersson before lifting a shot from the left circle to the top corner over Daccord\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Huberdeau recorded the secondary assist for his 800th NHL point.<\/p>\n<p>Backlund scored into an empty net at 19:52 for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n<p>After a scoreless first period in which the Flames outshot the Kraken 18-6, Stephenson gave the Kraken a 1-0 lead at 7:52 of the second period.<\/p>\n<p>While cutting towards the net through the left circle, Stephenson took a pass from Eeli Tolvanen on his backhand before tucking a forehand shot just inside the far post by the outstretched left leg of Wolf.<\/p>\n<p>Backlund tied it 1-1 at 10:20 when he drove hard to the net before a shot by Andersson deflected off his skate and past Daccord. It was the 200th assist of Andersson\u2019s NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>Kakko\u2019s power-play goal put the Kraken ahead 2-1 at 17:16, redirecting a pass from Ryker Evans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Coronato scored the go-ahead goal midway through the third period, and Nazem Kadri had a goal and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-354837","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\/354837","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=354837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}