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He had to wait 10 days, but goaltender Devin Cooley finally got a chance at redemption on Sunday and he made the most of it.<\/p>\n

Starting for the first time since he surrendered seven goals in a blowout loss to the Colorado Avalanche, Cooley made 34 stops as the Calgary Flames recorded a 3-2 win over the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes, snapping their seven-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou learn so much when you get lit up,\u201d said Cooley, who won his first game of the season. \u201cAnd of course, if you get lit up, (coach Ryan Huska) isn\u2019t gonna want to play me. So I had a lot of time to work on things and I\u2019ve been working with (goaltending coach Jason LaBarbera) and it worked out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI took a lot of lessons from the Colorado loss and I used them tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late in the second period with the visitors up 1-0, Calgary got hemmed in its own end for an extended stretch. As Carolina poured on the pressure looking to extend its lead, it was survival mode for the Flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen that\u2019s happening, I just try to slow my breathing down, just relax, just calm down. It\u2019s going to be OK, and just really try to let my eyes do all the work instead of my body and not go chasing it, not go running around,\u201d said Cooley. \u201cTry to conserve as much energy and just play a lot smarter than a lot harder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facing a similar scenario in his last start, that\u2019s now how it played out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt happened against Colorado, and I\u2019m playing super hard. I\u2019m not playing smart, and then I give up a goal with no screen from the blue line, and it\u2019s like that\u2019s exactly why you have to just calm your breathing down, calm your mind down.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Mikael Backlund finally relieved the relentless pressure by carrying the puck out of the defensive zone and dumping it down the ice, the tying goal came just seconds later when Matt Coronato set up Matvei Gridin for his first goal of the year.<\/p>\n

The Flames second-year forward had just stepped onto the ice five seconds earlier for beleaguered rookie Aydar Suniev, who had been out for 2:22. Yan Kuznetsov (3:13) and Zach Whitecloud (2:10) were the D pairing who got trapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the turning point,\u201d Huska said. \u201cWe gave up some zone time, we gave up some chances, but they held the fort and they found a way. And that to me shifted momentum in our favour a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sixty-nine seconds after tying it, Morgan Frost scored on the power play at 19:39 and suddenly Calgary was in the lead.<\/p>\n

Carolina tied it with four seconds left in the period on Jalen Chatfield\u2019s screened shot, but the Flames did not let that rattle them.<\/p>\n

Cooley was perfect in the third as the home side outshot the Hurricanes 14-11, eventually getting the game-winner from Yegor Sharangovich at 15:32 when he was set up neatly by Frost and one-timed a shot into the top corner on Brandon Bussi.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was great,\u201d said Flames defenceman Zayne Parekh, who made a dazzling pass on the Frost goal. \u201cThat\u2019s the Cools we all know, and we all know he\u2019s capable of doing that every night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huska knows that his rebuilding team, which entered the night last in the overall standings, will need more of those kinds of performances from Cooley and Dustin Wolf, who had started the last three games.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe (Cooley) was awesome,\u201d said Huska. \u201cWe need a goaltender to do that. You don\u2019t want to have him make saves like that every night, but you need them to be your best players, especially when you\u2019re in a stretch like we\u2019ve been in here over the last little while. I thought he was excellent tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooley had a message post-game for everyone concerned about how he and his partner have been playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone\u2019s panicking about the goalies. Everyone, just chill out. We\u2019re gonna be fine. Dustin\u2019s gonna be fine. I\u2019m gonna be fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes you just have a bad start and things aren\u2019t going your way. But I have so much faith in our goalie department, in Barbs, in our process and our work ethic and our talent level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Flames are back in action Thursday when they host the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n

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