{"id":554917,"date":"2026-03-23T08:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T08:21:07","slug":"strome-scores-in-ot-flames-recover-after-lightning-tie-it-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/554917\/","title":{"rendered":"Strome scores in OT, Flames recover after Lightning tie it late"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pontus Holmberg<\/a> tied it for the Lightning at 15:40 of the third period. Yanni Gourde<\/a> passed the puck out front from behind the goal line to Holmberg in the slot, where he chipped it over Calgary goalie Devin Cooley<\/a>\u2019s blocker.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat line is as about as consistent as it comes for us and counted on in all situations,\u201d said Lightning defenseman Ryan McDonagh<\/a>. \u201cThey know they want to keep the puck out of our net but know they\u2019ve got to contribute to it and put it in the net for us at times too. All their hard work paid off there tonight with a big goal by \u2018Holm\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victor Olofsson<\/a>, Morgan Frost<\/a> and Mikael Backlund<\/a> also scored for the Flames (29-34-7), who have won three straight games. Cooley made 32 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave up one late which we wouldn\u2019t want to do, but we found a way to win,\u201d Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than winning. At the end of the day, even the nights that your team doesn\u2019t play well and you win, everybody goes home feeling much better about themselves, so winning is the elixir to most things.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDonagh and Darren Raddysh<\/a> also scored for the Lightning (43-21-5), who went 3-0-1 on a four-game road trip, including a 5-2 win at the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. Johansson made 25 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe final leg after playing back-to-back in 22 hours and we\u2019re down 3-1 halfway through the game and we get a point out of it, so there\u2019s a lot of good to take out of this especially with the way the Eastern Conference is going,\u201d Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. \u201cYou lose a couple, you\u2019re in trouble, so I\u2019m proud of the guys on this trip. We needed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lightning are second in the Atlantic Division, four points behind the Buffalo Sabres but with two games in hand. They increased their lead over the third-place Montreal Canadiens to five points.<\/p>\n

McDonagh gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at 7:25 of the first period when his wrist shot from the high slot went in off the glove of Flames defenseman\u00a0Zane<\/a>\u00a0Parekh<\/a>\u2019s past Cooley.<\/p>\n

\u201cKind of a relentless forecheck,\u201d McDonagh said of what led to his goal. \u201cWe talk about trying to get three high and really not trying to pass up shots. I know it kind of pinballed around and found its way in, but at certain points throughout this stretch here, we haven\u2019t been shooting enough, so we\u2019ve got to keep doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Olofsson scored his second goal in as many games, his first two with Calgary since getting acquired from the Colorado Avalanche on March 6, to tie it 1-1\u00a0at 16:25. He took a pass from\u00a0Yegor Sharangovich<\/a> and snapped a shot from the left circle short side over Johansson\u2019s left shoulder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s been some good energy around our team lately,\u201d Huska said. \u201cWe talked about losing players, but we brought some good players in that are quality people and good hockey players and I think that\u2019s helped as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frost scored 27 seconds later at 16:52 to give Calgary a 2-1 lead. He took a backhand pass from\u00a0Matt Coronato<\/a> in the left circle before skating towards the net and snapping a shot to the far side past Johansson\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re finding a way to capitalize on some of our chances,\u201d Huska said. \u201cI think it\u2019s a little bit more consistency and we\u2019re sticking with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pontus Holmberg tied it for the Lightning at 15:40 of the third period. Yanni Gourde passed the puck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-554917","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\/554917","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=554917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}