Andrei Kuzmenko's return to the Calgary Flames lineup was marred by two costly penalties, leading to two power-play goals for the Nashville Predators in a 4-1 victory. The Flames' penalty kill woes continued, allowing goals on both of the Predators' power-play opportunities, a trend that has plagued them in recent games.
CALGARY — Andrei Kuzmenko 's troubles continued on Saturday as he went from the press box to the penalty box.
“There's parts of it where you feel like it's coming, but when there's a breakdown now, it's ending up in the net, and we do go through stretches like that. You just feel like the stretches for our team in that situation have been much too long this year,” said Huska. “We gotta figure it out,” said Backlund. “If you want to make the playoffs, that's something that's gonna have to be a lot better for us.”
In 29 games with the Flames last season, Kuzmenko scored 14 goals. Nearly an identical clip to the 39-goals he notched as a rookie the previous season. Having not registered a shot on goal over his last five games, he did break that skid Saturday and while only one shot reached the goalie, he did have eight shot attempts.
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