Calgary Flames down Dallas Stars 3-1 to take series lead
CALGARY – Andrew Mangiapane scored the game-winner within the third interval for the Calgary Flames in Wednesday’s 3-1 win over the Dallas Stars to take a 3-2 lead of their playoff collection.
Mangiapane and Mikael Backlund every had a aim and an help and Trevor Lewis added an empty-net aim for the Flames, who pushed the Stars to the brink of elimination within the first spherical of the NHL playoffs.
Recreation 6 is Saturday in Dallas. Recreation 7, if crucial, is Sunday again in Calgary.
Calgary goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 20 saves for the win.
Jason Robertson scored the lone aim and Jake Oettinger stopped 29 pictures for Dallas.
Calgary (50-21-11) topped the Pacific Division, whereas Dallas (46-30-6) entered the post-season through the highest wild-card spot within the Western Convention.
Each groups earned splits in one another’s arenas to ship the collection to Calgary deadlocked at 2-2.
The perfect-of-seven convention quarterfinal reverted to low-scoring video games on the Saddledome, the place Calgary gained 1-0 and misplaced 2-0 to start out the collection.
Dallas gained 4-2 and misplaced 4-1 at American Airways Area.
The Stars didn’t permit the Flames many clear exits from their very own finish, or into the offensive zone, with sound positional hockey for the primary 40 minutes to guide 1-0.
However the line of Mangiapane, Baklund and Blake Coleman struck within the third for a 2-1 Flames lead.
Backlund within the impartial zone fed a backhand cross to Mangiapane on the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a excessive shot at 13:20.
Calgary drew even at 6:49 of the third interval when Mangiapane collected on Coleman’s drive to the online.
Mangiapane circled out from behind the goal-line and centred the puck for Backlund’s redirect by Oettinger.
Robertson, a team-leading 41-goal man within the common season, scored the primary aim of the sport and his first NHL playoff aim at 13:21 of the second interval.
Stars head coach Rick Bowness had moved the 22-year-old off the highest line alongside Joe Pavelski and Roope Hintz to affix Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin.
Robertson drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove after which off defenceman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s web.
Each groups didn’t rating on their two power-play possibilities and had been 2-for-19 within the collection.
Flames coach Darryl Sutter deployed 11 forwards and 7 defenceman for a second straight sport with Michael Stone remaining within the lineup for Brett Ritchie.
Flames winger Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck within the facet of the pinnacle on the Stars’ blue line. He went to the dressing room for therapy late within the interval, however was again within the sport within the second interval.
Bowness altered his Recreation 5 lineup scratching forwards Denis Gurianov and Alexander Radulov.
Jacob Peterson, 22, made his NHL playoff debut and Marian Studenic, 23, drew in for a second sport within the collection.
When a best-of-seven collection is tied 2-2, the winner of Recreation 5 holds an all-time collection document of 219-58, in accordance with NHL statisticians.
When the house crew wins Recreation 5 to take a 3-2 lead, it closes out the collection 80.7 per cent of the time (138-33). When the highway crew does so, it wins 76.4 per cent of the collection (81-25).
Notes: With 92 profession playoff wins, Sutter is 2 again of Pat Quinn for the sixth-most amongst NHL coaches . . . Joe Pavelski’s 166th profession playoff sport surpassed Brian Rafalski for fifth in NHL historical past amongst U.S.-born skaters.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Might 11, 2022.
