Red-hot Flames grind out 4-3 shootout win over Penguins

Justin Kirkland scored the decisive extremity successful the sixth circular of the shootout Tuesday arsenic the red-hot Calgary Flames prevailed 4-3 implicit the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Nazem Kadri, Rasmus Andersson and MacKenzie Weegar scored successful regularisation for Calgary (5-0-1).

Andersson besides had an assistance for the lone multi-point night, and leads the Flames successful scoring with 8 points (three goals, 5 assists).

Bryan Rust, Rickard Rakell and Noel Acciari scored for Pittsburgh (3-4-1), which opened a four-game Western Canada roadworthy trip.

Dustin Wolf, who was peppered with 38 shots, improves to a cleanable 3-0-0. He clinched the triumph erstwhile helium stopped Evgeni Malkin successful Pittsburgh’s past anticipation successful the shootout.

Alex Nedeljkovic made 25 saves and fell to 0-1-1.

Rakell and Rust scored successful the shootout portion Anthony Mantha, successful his 500th NHL crippled and Andersson had Calgary’s different goals.

Takeaways

Penguins: Calgary piled up an aboriginal 7-0 borderline successful shots but, aft the sleepy start, Pittsburgh carried the play the remainder of the night, outshooting the Flames 38-18 implicit that span.

Flames: Martin Pospisil, who has been skating betwixt Jonathan Huberdeau and Anthony Mantha, was benched for the last 13 minutes of the 2nd play aft his 2nd violative portion punishment led to a powerfulness play wherever Rust scored and tied the crippled astatine 1-1.

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Key moment

Trailing 3-2 and with Wolf connected the seat for an other attacker, Andersson blasted a rising slapshot from the bluish enactment that deed Acciari successful front. When the puck fell to the ice, Kadri was close determination to occurrence it past Nedeljkovic with 43 seconds left, sending the location assemblage into a frenzy.

Key stat

With 11 points successful their archetypal six games, the Flames are disconnected to their champion commencement successful franchise history. The lone blemish was their 2-1 overtime nonaccomplishment successful Seattle connected Saturday.

Up next

Penguins: Travel to Edmonton to play the Oilers connected Friday.

Flames: Play big to the Carolina Hurricanes connected Thursday.