{"id":430090,"date":"2026-01-24T11:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430090\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T11:03:06","slug":"lapierre-scores-capitals-edge-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430090\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapierre scores, Capitals edge Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morgan Frost<\/a> scored for the Flames (21-25-5), who have scored just one goal in each of their past three games and have lost them all (0-2-1) since defenseman Rasmus Andersson<\/a> was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights on Sunday. Devin Cooley<\/a> made 35 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought our first period was great, the way we came out,\u201d Calgary forward Connor Zary<\/a> said. \u201cThen it fell of a little bit and we let them dictate the game for sure in the second period. It was a little bit better in the third, but still they got the best of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frost gave Calgary a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 6:09 of the first period. He took a pass from Zary and cut through the slot before letting go a wrist shot that beat Thompson to the top corner over his blocker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the first period was one of our better periods in a while,\u201d said Frost, who credited Yegor Sharangovich<\/a> for helping set up his goal despite not getting an assist. \u201c\u2018Sharky\u2019 did a good job driving the middle and opening up a shot lane for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lapierre scored at 6:33 of the second period to pull the Capitals even at 1-1. John Carlson<\/a>\u2019s wrist shot from the point hit Flames defenseman Yan Kuznetsov<\/a>\u2019s skates and bounced right to Lapierre, who snapped in a shot from the left post past Cooley.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys were going nuts on the bench,\u201d Washington coach Spencer Carbery said. \u201c\u2018Lappy\u2019 works so hard and he cares so much and he\u2019s such a good teammate. Every guy in there pulls for him and is doing everything they can to help him be successful on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lapierre said, \u201cJohnny kind of jumped into my arms. It felt like I scored my first goal all over again. I don\u2019t want that to happen too often, but it\u2019s an awesome group of guys. I love these guys to death. I\u2019ve said it a lot, I consider myself very lucky to go to battle with these guys pretty much every other day.\u201d<\/p>\n

After outshooting the Capitals 16-8 in the opening period, the Flames were outshot 17-4 in the second. Defenseman Kevin Bahl<\/a> registered Calgary\u2019s first shot of the period at 16:27.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first period was good and that\u2019s the way we need to play the game,\u201d Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. \u201cObviously, the second and third weren\u2019t the same. They got better, but I don\u2019t think we stayed with what made us successful in the first period.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protas swatted in a rebound at 7:35 of the third period to put the Capitals up 2-1. Justin Sourdif outbattled Flames defenseman Brayden Pachal<\/a> to get the puck in the corner before passing the puck to Wilson, whose initial shot was stopped by Cooley.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just getting to the net and a lucky rebound for me found a way,\u201d Protas said. \u201cIt started from a great forecheck from \u2018Willy\u2019 and \u2018Sourdy\u2019 winning this puck battle. That\u2019s what he\u2019s good at. A good goal all around started from them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morgan Frost scored for the Flames (21-25-5), who have scored just one goal in each of their past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-430090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430090","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=430090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}