CALGARY — Daniil Miromanov's first goal of the season was the game-winner and rookie Dustin Wolf had 29 saves for his first career shutout as the Calgary Flames beat the Nashville Predators 2-0 on Friday night.
CALGARY — Daniil Miromanov's first goal of the season was the game-winner and rookie Dustin Wolf had 29 saves for his first career shutout as the Calgary Flames beat the Nashville Predators 2-0 on Friday night.
Blake Coleman, with an empty-netter, also scored for Calgary . The Flames have earned points in five of their last six games after a rough patch in which they lost five of six. Nashville , shut out for the third time on the season, continues to struggle. The Predators have just one win in their last seven games.Juuse Saros, who faced 32 shots, fell to 4-8-2.
Both netminders made clutch stops on shorthanded breakaways with Wolf turning aside Cole Smith in the first period. Saros kept it a one-goal game in the third when he jabbed out a pad to deny Coleman after he was set up by Yegor Sharangovich on a 2-on-0 break.Predators: Steven Stamkos had one of Nashville's best scoring chances when an Alexandre Carrier rebound kicked out to him at the side of the net, but Wolf stuck out a pad to deny him.
Flames: The power play continues to be a sore spot despite changing the personnel on both units. The Flames had a two-man advantage for nearly two minutes late in the second period, but Jonathan Huberdeau's harmless-looking 60-foot wrist shot from the blueline was the lone shot on goal.With the game scoreless in the third period, Calgary finally broke through at 6:38 off an offensive zone faceoff win by Nazen Kadri, who drew the puck back to MacKenzie Weegar.
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