The Ducks kept pressing, and with 1:34 left in regulation Cutter Gauthier blasted a one-timer past Wolf to give the visitors a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n
The Flames pulled Wolf for the extra attacker to hunt for the equalizer, but couldn\u2019t muster anything else. Nikita Nesterenko added an empty-netter to make it a 5-3 Ducks win.<\/p>\n
Why the Flames lost<\/p>\n
The Flames were really good in the opening period, and the Ducks were pretty flat. The Ducks seemed to make some good adjustments as the second period wore on, and they did a nice job using speed and skill to disrupt the Flames. The Flames had trouble with the Ducks\u2019 forecheck and didn\u2019t seem able to manage the puck very well in the later stages of the game. It really felt like someone plugged the Ducks\u2019 controller in after 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
But if you go back and look at the Ducks\u2019 goals, all were off Flames turnovers or coverage lapses. The Ducks were quite good in the last two periods of the game, but the Flames made mistakes at bad times.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRed Warrior<\/p>\n
This was another good effort from Joel Farabee, so we\u2019ll give him the nod.<\/p>\n
Stick-taps to Zayne Parekh, though. He made some really nice plays with the puck.<\/p>\n
Turning point<\/p>\n
Shots were 23-10 after Anaheim switched goalies to open the second period. That move seemed to wake up the visitors.<\/p>\n
Flames lineup<\/p>\n
The Flames looked like this against Anaheim:<\/p>\n
Joel Farabee \u2013 Mikael Backlund [C] \u2013 Matt Coronato
Matvei Gridin \u2013 Martin Pospisil \u2013 Ryan Strome [A]
Yegor Sharangovich \u2013 Morgan Frost \u2013 Aydar Suniev
William Stromgren \u2013 Jonathan Castagna \u2013 Adam Klapka<\/p>\n
Joel Hanley \u2013 Simon Nemec
Jake Middleton \u2013 Zach Whitecloud [A]
Yan Kuznetsov \u2013 Zayne Parekh<\/p>\n
Dustin Wolf started in net, backed up by Devin Cooley. The healthy extras were Joel Hanley and Maxim Tsyplakov. Jonathan Huberdeau, Sam Honzek, Brennan Othmann and Kevin Bahl missed the game due to injury. Bahl was a late scratch, replaced by Hanley.<\/p>\n
This and that<\/p>\n
The Flames debuted their snazzy Hometown Remix jerseys for this game.<\/p>\n
The goal song for this game was The Black Keys\u2019 2011 hit \u201cGold on the Ceiling.\u201d Because the Flaming C on the Hometown Remix jerseys is gold and has a sublimated grid pattern mimicking the Saddledome\u2019s ceiling.<\/p>\n
Joel Hanley\u2019s goal was his first since Apr. 5, 2025. Hanley played 74 games between goals, and 33 different Flames scored at least once between Hanley goals.<\/p>\n
After Burner<\/p>\n
Join Mike Gould and Robert Munnich right after the game for After Burner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ducks kept pressing, and with 1:34 left in regulation Cutter Gauthier blasted a one-timer past Wolf to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-521500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}