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Tuesday 24 december 2019

Flames score 3 power-play goals, beat Stars 5-1

DALLAS (AP) — The Calgary play after the first period op at 12:11 of the first pe-
Flames overpowered the because of a lower-body riod. Gurianov beat Flames
Dallas Stars. injury and other penalty kill- defenseman Noah Hanifin
Matthew Tkachuk, Sean ers were in the penalty box and skated in on Rittich for
Monahan and Mikael for two goals. a wrist shot into the upper
Backlund scored power- "We're just out of synch," right corner of the net.
play goals and Calgary Bowness said. "(Janmark's) Dallas had the first eight
beat the Stars 5-1. gone, (Radek Faksa's) in shots on goal in the second
Elias Lindholm assisted on the box, (Andrew Coglia- period, including three in a
the Flames' first three goals. no's) in the box. That's our span of nine seconds in the
"They're getting some nice penalty killers." first minute.
chemistry," Flames interim Flames goalie David Rittich Travis Hamonic had the
coach Geoff Ward said made 26 saves and picked Flames' first shot 8:02 in, a
of Tkachuk and Lindholm. up his first career assist on wrist shot stopped by Bish-
"The power play looked Calgary Flames goaltender David Rittich (33) plays the puck in Backlund's goal. op. That began a stretch
like it did for long stretches front of his net during the first period of an NHL hockey game Andrew Mangiapane of 10 straight shots, includ-
of last year. The key thing against the Dallas Stars, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in Dallas. scored Calgary's first goal ing the goals by Tkachuk at
for us tonight was that the Associated Press in the opening period. De- 12:28 and Monahan, on a
puck movement was quick nis Gurianov countered 38 play similar to Mangiapa-
and on the tape." I think we've played well," by the Stars' penalty killers seconds later for Dallas. ne's goal, at 14:21.
Tkachuk's 14th goal of the Lindholm said. "It's a good this season. Stars goalie Ben Bishop had COYOTES 5, RED WINGS 2
season broke a 1-1 tie in feeling and he's a good "Our penalty kill has won us 25 saves. The Flames had DETROIT (AP) — Clayton
the second period. Mo- player. Just get open, keep a lot of games. It cost us a been 0-2-1 in their previous Keller had two goals and
nahan also scored in the building chemistry, and game tonight," Dallas in- three games. They are now an assist to lead Arizona
second. Backlund's goal in we'll be fine." terim coach Rick Bowness 7-2-1 under Ward. past Detroit.
the third period preceded Tkachuk agreed, said, "but it wasn't the only Dallas has lost three of four Carl Soderberg, Taylor Hall
a short-handed, empty-net "(Lindholm's) an easy guy reason we lost tonight. We and is 3-3-1 with Bowness and Christian Dvorak also
goal by Derek Ryan. to play with," he said. "He scored one goal." coaching. scored for Arizona. Coyotes
Lindholm noticed the can make some great The Stars were without key Mangiapane took a pass defenseman Oliver Ekman-
chemistry with Tkachuk, plays, too." penalty killers for four of in the slot from Lindholm Larsson had three assists
who had two assists. The three power-play goals Calgary's five power plays. from behind the net and and Nick Schmaltz added
"The last five or six games, were also the most allowed Mattias Janmark didn't scored on a shot past Bish- two.q