After the game got away from them in the latter parts of the first period due to all those penalties, Flames did a good job of getting things back on track in the second period, rolling their lines and getting their legs moving.<\/p>\n
The Ducks took a pair of minor penalties at once, giving the Flames a full two minute, two-man advantage. They generated four shots on goal\u2026 but no goals. But after the Ducks\u2019 penalized players raced back to their zone, the Flames kept at it, and Ryan Strome found Aydar Suniev all alone in the slot, and Suniev one-timed his pass past Dostal to tie the game back up at 2-2.<\/p>\n
Calgary goal!<\/p>\n
Scored by Aydar Suniev with 11:58 left in the 2nd. Assisted by Ryan Strome and Simon Nemec.<\/p>\n
ANA: 2 | CGY: 2<\/p>\n
#CGYvsANA<\/a> #FlyTogether<\/a> #Flames<\/a><\/p>\n Both teams went into the third period looking to win the period to win the game.<\/p>\n The Flames managed to out-battle the Ducks and took the lead in the late stages of the third period. The Flames had a near-miss on a deflection on Dostal, then the Ducks nearly got a breakaway chance that was broken up by Zach Whitecloud, then Martin Pospisil went in all by himself against the Ducks\u2019 defenders. He pump-faked a shot at the top of the zone, then skated down to the face-off dot to Dostal\u2019s right and fired a wrister that eluded Dostal to give the Flames a 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n Calgary goal!<\/p>\n Scored by Martin Pospisil with 04:22 left in the 3rd. Assisted by Aydar Suniev and Yan Kuznetsov.<\/p>\n ANA: 2 | CGY: 3<\/p>\n #CGYvsANA<\/a> #FlyTogether<\/a> #Flames<\/a><\/p>\n With Dostal on the Anaheim bench for the extra attacker, Sharangovich added an empty-netter to give the Flames a 4-2 win.<\/p>\n Why the Flames won<\/p>\n The Flames bent, but they did not break. They did not play a flawless game. They got into penalty trouble, which led to Anaheim grabbing the lead. But the Flames did a very nice job regrouping in the second period and carried that momentum over to the third period.<\/p>\n They got a few nice offensive efforts at key moments, and it was enough to get them that elusive\u00a0one extra goal that got them past the Ducks. It was a pretty good game for the red team overall, and gives them something to continue building on.<\/p>\n Red Warrior<\/p>\n Aydar Suniev had his first NHL multi-point game. And not only was it \u201cmulti-point,\u201d but he scored the game-tying goal and had the first assist on the go-ahead goal.<\/p>\n Stick-taps to Dustin Wolf, who was sharp, Ryan Strome, who had a team-leading seven shots, Martin Pospisil, who had a great goal and was strong at the face-off dot, and Adam Klapka, who had a goal and a fight.<\/p>\n Turning point<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to ague with the great individual effort Martin Pospisil made on the go-ahead goal in the third period.<\/p>\n Flames lineup<\/p>\n The Flames looked like this against Anaheim:<\/p>\n Aydar Suniev \u2013 Morgan Frost \u2013 Matt Coronato Kevin Bahl \u2013 Simon Nemec Dustin Wolf started in net, backed up by Devin Cooley. The healthy extras were Joel Hanley and Brennan Othmann. Jonathan Huberdeau and Sam Honzek missed the game due to injury. It was\u00a0literally the exact lineup they used on Saturday against Anaheim.<\/p>\n This and that<\/p>\n Ducks forward Roger McQueen made his NHL debut.<\/p>\n Adam Klapka fought Jeff Mallot in the second period.<\/p>\n After Burner<\/p>\n Join Mike Gould and myself right after the game for After Burner!<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n The Flames (1-5-0) are headed to Sin City. They visit the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday night.<\/p>\n PRESENTED BY THE DFO CALGARY NEWSLETTER
Yegor Sharangovich \u2013 Mikael Backlund [C] \u2013 Joel Farabee
Matvei Gridin \u2013 Martin Pospisil \u2013 Ryan Strome
Maxim Tsyplakov \u2013 Jonathan Castagna \u2013 Adam Klapka<\/p>\n
Jake Middleton [A] \u2013 Zayne Parekh
Yan Kuznetsov \u2013 Zach Whitecloud [A]<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791980307_468_image.webp\"\/)
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