“Every game I’m playing now my confidence is growing.” Andrew Mangiapane's dogged determination as the Flames' most tenacious forechecker has led to a scoring binge that has him two off the NHL lead with five in five games. (By EricFrancis)
The Barrie Colts walk-on picked up two more goals in a 5-1 Flames win at Madison Square Garden Monday, including a game-turning snipe early in the second period that changed the complexion of the game.
“Darryl has been talking about it, and myself too – as goalies it’s about timely saves, especially in this league. When the other team is pushing you have to come up with one or two saves, and then Mango finished it off there to make it 2-0. That was a big goal for us, for sure.”“Mango” is certainly a new nickname for the man who prompted a fan to throw a loaf of bread on the Saddledome ice opening night.
“I think maybe when I first came into the league I was a little shy to make a play or maybe play it safe and chip it in. Now I’m just trying to play my game. Play with confidence. You have to play with confidence in this league and right now the puck is going in for me.” He scored his second of the night from there on the power play with five seconds remaining, when he corralled a puck shot wide of the net and put it into a gaping net from the doorstep.
“The crowd kind of got into it after they scored that goal so we needed to pump it back up. It was a big goal Coles scored, and Backs followed it up with another one. It was good we kind of responded to that. And that’s what we’re going to need to do the rest of the season.”All told, Coleman, Backlund and Tyler Pitlick combined for 13 of the team’s 37 shots, proving a good defence can be a solid offence.
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