St. Louis Blues hand Calgary Flames 5th-straight loss on Friday night – Calgary | 24CA News
Jordan Kyrou scored twice on Friday because the St. Louis Blues made it three wins in a row with a 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames.
Ivan Barbashev and Pavel Buchnevich had two-point video games for St. Louis (15-15-1) with a aim and help every. Brandon Saad additionally scored.
Connor Mackey scored each targets for Calgary (13-12-6), which is winless in its final 5 (0-2-3) and obtained boos from the house crowd as the ultimate buzzer went. Dillon Dube and Elias Lindholm every had two assists.
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Thomas Greiss made 40 saves to win his fourth recreation in his final 5 begins for the Blues. He’s 4-4-0 on the season.
At the opposite finish, Jacob Markstrom had 18 stops. His file falls to 8-8-4.
Calgary Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom, makes a save towards St. Louis Blues’ Robert Thomas throughout first interval NHL hockey motion in Calgary, Friday, Dec. 16, 2022.
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Tied 1-1 after 20 minutes, St. Louis took its second lead at 3:08 of the second on the ability play.
Just seconds after Dube and Andrew Mangiapane did not get a shot on aim throughout a harmful two-on-one rush, again up the ice got here St. Louis with a three-way passing sequence capped off by Kyrou, who snapped a shot over Markstrom’s shoulder for his twelfth aim of the season.
Still 2-1 coming into the third, St. Louis took a two-goal lead at 3:46 when a lapse in defensive protection gave Buchnevich an unimpeded path to the online and he fired a shot contained in the goalpost.
The Flames briefly bought again into the sport when Mackey scored his second of the night time at 7:40, beating Greiss over his glove after being arrange by Dube.
St. Louis restored its two-goal benefit simply 78 seconds later because of a nasty turnover by Mackey, who flung the puck up the center from behind his internet the place it was intercepted by Saad, who took benefit, scoring his seventh of the season.
A minute later, it was Kyrou once more, this time his shot deflecting in off the skate of Flames defenceman Mackenzie Weegar.
The aim was Kyrou’s team-leading thirteenth of the 12 months.
A key second within the recreation got here within the second interval with the Blues up 2-1. Three straight St. Louis penalties put the Flames on the ability play for almost six steady minutes — together with a 22-second two-man benefit — however towards the league’s worst penalty kill, Calgary was unable to generate any harmful probabilities.
Not solely is St. Louis’ penalty kill the worst within the league, coming into the sport at 67.1 per cent, it could go down because the worst in NHL historical past in the event that they finish the season that means. The 1979-80 L.A. Kings personal the all-time worst PK at 68.2 per cent.
The Flames have been 0-for-3 with the person benefit Friday, whereas the Blues went 1-for-2.
St. Louis opened up the scoring 4:07 into the sport, capitalizing on a turnover within the offensive zone by Elias Lindholm that led to a 2-on-1 with Robert Thomas and Barbashev, who buried the return move for simply his second aim in his final 16 video games.
Calgary tied it 1-1 at 16:01 of the primary when Dube’s shot deflected in off Mackey.
The help provides Dube 9 factors (two targets, seven assists) in his final 10 video games, which tops the crew.
Dube was on a brand new line for the sport with Darryl Sutter flip-flopping his top-six left wingers. Dube joined Lindholm and Tyler Toffoli and Jonathan Huberdeau dropped right down to play alongside Nazem Kadri and Mangiapane.
The Flames proceed to battle face to face towards St. Louis, which is 7-1-0 of their final eight conferences. The Blues have loved their visits to southern Alberta, successful 5 of their final six video games in Calgary.
Mackey’s two targets have been the second and third of his profession however first in entrance of a crowd as his solely different got here within the ultimate recreation of the 2020-21 season in an empty Saddledome, because of COVID restrictions. Connor’s dad, Dave, spent his ultimate three NHL seasons from 1991 to 1994 with the Blues.
The Flames start a four-game California highway journey on Sunday with the primary of two consecutive video games towards the San Jose Sharks.
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