Wolf made 11 stops in period one, his best coming on a series of pad saves off Nathan MacKinnon before the contest was four minutes old. But Colorado got a late powerplay and made quick work of it, Gabriel Landeskog putting home his 13th of the year as the hosts took a 1-0 lead into the break.<\/p>\n
As busy as Wolf was in period one, he was even busier in period two. The Avalanche fired 20 shots goalward – Wolf getting 19 of them – the lone blemish coming on an unstoppable shot when Martin Necas cut across his crease and roofed a hard wrist shot with just under five minutes to play.<\/p>\n
Wolf stopped MacKinnon again early in the third – going into the splits to keep a potential third Colorado goal out. At the other end, rookie Aydar Suniev had the best chance for the Flames on a late powerplay, but Blackwood got a pad to his one-timer from the slot.<\/p>\n
But then, with less than three minutes left on the clock, the local kid got a moment he’ll never forget.\u00a0Matvei Gridin put a puck to the net from the top of the right circle, and after winning a net-front battle, Gross got a stick to the rebound and chopped home his first career NHL marker from just outside the blue paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolf made 11 stops in period one, his best coming on a series of pad saves off Nathan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-594081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594081","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=594081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}