CALGARY — A week ago, the Calgary Flames were winning despite Martin Pospisil's slump and the NHL club's weak power play.
CALGARY — A week ago, the Calgary Flames were winning despite Martin Pospisil's slump and the NHL club's weak power play.
“When Marty is skating and physical, the offence follows him,” said Flames coach Ryan Huska. “If he really focuses on how he has to play every night, he's going to find goals like that, especially in that spot on the power play.Yegor Sharangovich also scored a power-play goal in the third period. While Minnesota got goals from Brock Faber and Marco Rossi in the final four minutes of the third to send the game to overtime, Calgary made it four straights wins and a perfect four-game homestand on Rasmus Andersson's deciding goal in the fifth round of the shootout.
Marcus Johansson also scored for Minnesota , which was without leading scorer Kirill Kaprizov . Despite that, the Wild have claimed points in seven of their last eight . A catalyst for the invigorated man advantage was changing personnel on the two units. The players are also passing the puck faster.
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