{"id":526003,"date":"2026-03-10T04:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526003\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T04:17:11","slug":"mcmichael-scores-twice-capitals-recover-to-pull-away-from-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526003\/","title":{"rendered":"McMichael scores twice, Capitals recover to pull away from Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McMichael increased the lead to 3-0 at 17:43 when he took a pass from Sourdif along the boards and beat Cooley with a snap shot from the slot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kind of knew [we] were going to be changing and I had to bring it deep,\u201d Sourdif said. \u201cI knew there&#8217;s going to be guys coming off the bench, and they kind of closed in on me. And [McMichael] was coming down the slot off the bench and was able to find him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calgary scored three goals in 2:47 to tie the game 3-3 in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Gridin pulled the Flames within 3-1 at 16:08 when he received a pass across the slot from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/olli-maatta-8476874\" title=\"Olli Maatta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olli Maatta<\/a>\u00a0and then shot over a sprawling Thompson from the right circle.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman made it 3-2 with the first of two short-handed goals by Calgary at 17:39. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/mikael-backlund-8474150\" title=\"Mikael Backlund\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mikael Backlund<\/a>\u00a0intercepted a pass in the defensive zone and passed up the ice to Coleman for the breakaway snap shot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did some good things,\u201d Flames coach Ryan Huska said. \u201cWe put them under pressure and we made it hard on them. We did a lot of checking up the ice, which is something we\u2019re going to have to keep doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just 1:16 later, Sharangovich netted the Flames&#8217; second short-handed goal to tie it 3-3 at 18:55. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/joel-farabee-8480797\" title=\"Joel Farabee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Farabee<\/a>\u00a0got to Chychrun\u2019s errant drop pass at the blue line, skated deep into the zone and fed Sharangovich, who scored on a snap shot from the low slot.<\/p>\n<p>Sourdif made it 5-3 at 11:15, 23 seconds after McMichael&#8217;s go-ahead goal, getting a snap shot from the right dot past Cooley thanks to a deflection off of Flames defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/kevin-bahl-8480860\" title=\"Kevin Bahl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Bahl<\/a>\u00a0in front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt like every single period was the complete opposite from the last,\u201d McMichael said, \u201cand we weren&#8217;t happy with how the second went, as you can tell, and I think it motivated us to come out in the third and dominate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McMichael increased the lead to 3-0 at 17:43 when he took a pass from Sourdif along the boards&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-526003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526003","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=526003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}