Flames score 4 in second period to burn Oilers 6-1 in Calgary

Connor Zary scored doubly and added an assistance Monday nighttime to pb the Calgary Flames to a 6-1 triumph implicit the Edmonton Oilers successful portion of a split-squad NHL pre-season doubleheader.

Yegor Sharangovich with a brace of goals, Nazem Kadri and Daniil Miromanov, besides scored for Calgary.

Mike Hoffman scored for Edmonton.

Dan Vladar got the commencement for Calgary and stopped 18 of 19 shots earlier giving mode to Waltteri Ignatjew for the 3rd period.

The Oilers’ Olivier Rodrigue stopped 20 of 25 shots successful his 40 minutes of enactment earlier helium was replaced by Nathaniel Day.

Zary, who turns 23 connected Wednesday, is looking to physique connected a coagulated rookie play successful which helium scored 14 goals and had 34 points successful 63 games. Zary finished eighth successful voting for the Calder Memorial Trophy, which goes to the NHL’s champion rookie.

Calgary’s first-round prime successful 2020, Zary has opened grooming campy playing near helping connected a enactment with skipper Mikael Backlund and Blake Coleman.

Backlund and Coleman person played unneurotic for years, but this is Zary’s archetypal look alongside the 2 veterans and the signs of chemistry were evident successful the 2nd play erstwhile the Flames scored 4 times to stroke unfastened a crippled that was tied 1-1 aft 20 minutes.

Giving the location broadside the pb for bully was Zary astatine 5:14 of the 2nd play erstwhile helium went to the nett and deflected Backlund’s changeable past Rodrigue.

After Zary displayed a goal-scorer’s hands firing a changeable conscionable wrong the goalpost connected a perfectly executed drag-and-shoot determination connected the powerfulness play astatine 9:12, his enactment went backmost to work.

At 14:20, Backlund acceptable up Zary again connected a cross-ice walk and portion Rodrigue got crossed to marque a terrific pad stop, Miromanov was close determination to shovel successful the rebound.

Calgary’s last 2 goals came from Sharangovich, who led the nine with 31 goals past season.

Playing connected a enactment with Kadri and Andrei Kuzmenko, Sharangovich one-timed a Kadri setup to wrap-up the 2nd play scoring barrage.

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He past added a short-handed extremity 4:15 into the third.

All the scoring successful the archetypal play scoring came 47 seconds apart.

Hoffman opened the scoring connected a powerfulness play erstwhile helium finished disconnected a give-and-go with Ben Gleason by snapping a changeable past Vladar astatine 7:55.

Calgary answered backmost erstwhile Kadri buried a lively MacKenzie Weegar rebound disconnected the extremity boards earlier Rodrigue could descent across.

VYING FOR A SPOT

The 34-year-old Hoffman is successful Edmonton’s campy connected a nonrecreational tryout. On Monday helium played alongside Lane Pederson and Matt Savoie. Hoffman has logged 745 vocation NHL games with 5 teams aft starting his vocation with the Ottawa Senators. He played past play successful San Jose wherever helium scored 10 goals and had 23 points successful 66 games.

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With Jacob Markstrom traded to New Jersey, Vladar is battling Dustin Wolf for the Flames No. 1 goaltender job. His coagulated crippled included a halt connected Viktor Arvidsson connected a second-period breakaway.

UP NEXT

Oilers: Visit the Winnipeg Jets connected Wednesday.

Flames: Visit the Vancouver Canucks connected Wednesday.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Sept. 23, 2024.