Nazem Kadri scored twice, and Mikael Backlund and Connor Zary each had a goal and an assist for the Flames (24-27-6), who have won three of their past four games.<\/p>\n
Tyler Toffoli scored the lone goal for the Sharks (27-25-4), who have lost five straight (0-4-1). Yaroslav Askarov made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
It was the first game for each team following the break for the Olympics.<\/p>\n
Toffoli put the Sharks up 1-0 at 1:17 of the second period, tipping Mario Ferraro’s point pass over Wolf’s glove from the slot.<\/p>\n
Kadri tied it 1-1 at 15:02, burying a wrist shot from the slot over Askarov’s glove off a saucer pass from Joel Farabee.<\/p>\n
Zary gave Calgary a 2-1 lead at 5:22 of the third period when he collected a pass from Backlund and beat Askarov with a wrist shot to the blocker side from the top of the left face-off circle.<\/p>\n
Kadri scored his second goal at 11:56 to make it 3-1. San Jose\u00a0defenseman Timothy Liljegren’s clearing attempt deflected off Zary in the right face-off circle to Kadri, who waited out Askarov as he cut toward the net before lifting a wrist shot over Askarov’s right pad .<\/p>\n
Backlund added an empty-net goal at 17:30 to secure the 4-1 final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nazem Kadri scored twice, and Mikael Backlund and Connor Zary each had a goal and an assist for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-502467","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\/502467","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=502467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}