{"id":546066,"date":"2026-03-19T05:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T05:02:08","slug":"cooley-stops-26-helps-flames-recover-for-shootout-win-against-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/546066\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooley stops 26, helps Flames recover for shootout win against Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Zary scored for the Flames (27-34-7), who ended their two-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Farabee and Matvei Gridin scored in the shootout and Cooley stopped Jake Neighbours and Jimmy Snuggerud to clinch the win.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Holloway scored for the Blues (27-30-11), who have lost two straight and three of five (2-1-2). They are six points back of the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference. Joel Hofer made 30 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Zary gave the Flames a 1-0 lead at 2:34 of the first period, taking a pass from Ryan Strome and backhanding the puck past Hofer&#8217;s glove as he skated into the slot. It was the first goal and point in 11 games for Zary.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Pospisil appeared make it 2-0 at 12:43, but St. Louis challenged successfully challenged for offside after video review determined Calgary defenseman Kevin Bahl did not hold the puck in the offensive zone.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues then challenged a goal by Yegor Sharangovich at 17:23 for a missed stoppage in play. Video review determined that Zary had played the puck with a high stick, negating the goal.<\/p>\n<p>Holloway tied it 1-1 at 3:47 of the second period when he finished Snuggerud&#8217;s pass on a 2-on-1 with a snap shot from the left face-off circle that squeaked under Cooley&#8217;s left arm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Farabee thought he put Calgary up 2-1 with a snap shot from the right circle at 9:38, but the call was reversed following a successful challenge for offside.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames outshot the Blues 7-3 in overtime, but were unable to capitalize on a power-play opportunity with 2:37 remaining in the extra frame after Pavel Buchnevich was called for high-sticking Zary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connor Zary scored for the Flames (27-34-7), who ended their two-game losing streak. Joel Farabee and Matvei Gridin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-546066","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\/546066","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=546066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}