Morgan Frost scored the winning goal and once spoke in regulation when Calgary recorded a 5-4 victory over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday, but it was not enough to keep Flames’ Stanley Cup Playoff Hope.
Nazem Kadri gathered a goal and an assist while Mikael Backlund and Adam Klapka also scored Calgary (40-27-14, 94 points), which was officially eliminated from the playoffs. Matt Coronato noted two assists.
Flame’s goalkeeper Dustin Wolf made 38 rescues through regulation and overtime when Calgary beat Vegas for the first time in the last of the team’s four meetings this season.
Brandon Saad scored a three-point game for Vegas (49-22-10, 108 points), which had already climbed the Pacific Division Crown and rested some important players. Golden Knights’ Tomas Hertl had a goal and an assist and Pavel Dorofeyev and Nicolas Roy added singles.
Goalkeeper Ilya Samsonov made 24 rescues through regulation and overtime for Vegas, who will meet the Minnesota Wild in the playoffs of the playoffs.
Frost, Flame’s third participant in the shooting game, was the lone painter when he snapped a quick advance just within the post to end Calgary’s last home game.
The flames were officially eliminated before the third period began with both Wild and St. Louis Blues who won, but that did not stop the flames from pressing another comeback victory.
Dorofeyev opened the score 5:25 in the competition. His shot from the right circle Ricocheted by a defender’s stick and into the net for his 34th goal in the season.
Frost bound collision five minutes later by converting a sharply split shot from the right circle for the Power-Play goal that snapped his 25 game’s target dryer.
Goals by Roy and Hertl before the first break set the Golden Knights up by a couple. Roy scored 14:52 with an interruption, and Hertl converted cross -pass from Saad with 24 seconds left in the opening frame.
From there, both teams deleted deficits. Kadri made 32 seconds into the third period on a Power Play, a perfect shot from the top of the right circle for its career -high 33rd season. Backlund banded the collision at 1:04 of the third with a top corner shot from the high place.
Klapka gave Calgary a lead of 4-3 at 11:01 in the final period by redirecting a Braden Pachal feed, but the Saad band game 11 seconds later when he came across a recovery.
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