{"id":609574,"date":"2026-04-17T05:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609574\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:25:09","slug":"zayne-parekh-scores-winner-as-calgary-flames-beat-los-angeles-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609574\/","title":{"rendered":"Zayne Parekh scores winner as Calgary Flames beat Los Angeles Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2014 Zayne Parekh<\/a> snapped a 1-1 tie with a goal at 6:08 of the third period to lift the Calgary Flames<\/a> to a 3-1 season-ending win over the playoff-bound Los Angeles Kings<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Rookie goalie Arsenii Sergeev<\/a> made his first career NHL start, stopping 27 of 28 shots for the Flames (34-39-9).<\/p>\n

Morgan Frost<\/a> opened the scoring at 5:21 of the second period on the power play with his 22nd of the year. Matvei Gridin<\/a> and Matt Coronato<\/a> picked up the assists.<\/p>\n

Quinton Byfield<\/a> responded less than two minutes later with his 24th of the season.<\/p>\n

Joel Farabee<\/a> netted his 20th goal on the season as he sealed the win with an empty-netter in the final minute.<\/p>\n

Calgary\u2019s Ryan Strome<\/a> wrapped up his campaign with a two-assist effort.<\/p>\n

Anton Forsberg<\/a> made 18 saves for the Kings (35-27-20), who learned during the game that they\u2019d have to settle for the second wild-card seed and a playoff date with the league-leading Colorado Avalanche<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Edmonton Oilers<\/a> finished second in the Pacific Division with 93 points after a 6-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>, while the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> edged the Nashville Predators<\/a> 5-4 to finish third in the Pacific with 92 points.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS<\/p>\n

Flames: Russian netminder Sergeev has spent time in both the ECHL and the AHL this season before his NHL debut. The 23-year-old was a seventh-round pick for the Flames in the 2021 NHL entry draft. <\/p>\n

Kings: Anze Kopitar<\/a>, who appeared in his final regular-season game, finished with the seventh-most career points all-time by a born and trained European player with 1,316. The leader of the category is Jaromir Jagr<\/a> who recorded 1,921 points. Kings\u2019 centre Scott Laughton<\/a> left the game in discomfort after blocking a Frost shot in the second period. Laughton eventually returned.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT<\/p>\n

Parekh scored his fourth of the season to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

Matvei Gridin<\/a> became just the fifth Flames player in the past 20 years to record 20 points in a season at age 20 or younger. The forward wrapped up his rookie season with 20 points in 37 games.<\/p>\n

UP NEXT<\/p>\n

Flames: Begin the off-season.<\/p>\n

Kings: Visit the league-league Colorado Avalanche<\/a> on Sunday to start the first round of playoffs.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n

Sam Matheos, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Zayne Parekh snapped a 1-1 tie with a goal at 6:08 of the third period to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-609574","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","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609574","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=609574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}