CALGARY — Mikael Backlund had a goal and an assist and rookie goaltender Dustin Wolf made 32 stops for his second shutout as the Calgary Flames blanked the Florida Panthers 3-0 on Saturday.
Nazem Kadri and Blake Coleman also scored for Calgary , which had surrendered 21 goals in its previous four games including eight against Tampa Bay on Thursday. The Flames improve to 7-1-1 in their last nine home games.
Florida was shut out for the second straight game and it comes one year to the day that last happened. The reigning Stanley Cup champions have lost back-to-back games on the heels of a seven-game points streak. Wolf snapped a three-game losing skid in which he had yielded 14 goals. He improves to 9-5-1 and is the league-leader among rookies in wins.The only goal Calgary would need came 8:57 into the first period when Kadri stripped the puck from Dmitry Kulikov in his own zone and on the ensuing breakaway went backhand to forehand on a nifty deke.
Flames: It was a solid bounceback effort from Calgary's penalty kill after Thursday against the Lightning in which they gave up three power-play goals on three chances. Down 1-0, Florida got consecutive power plays late in the first, but the Flames killed both off. Contributing to those two kills was former Panther MacKenzie Weegar, playing his 500th career NHL game.
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