Flames win a squeaker in series opener against the Dallas Stars
Elias Lindholm scored the lone objective for the Calgary Flames on Tuesday in a 1-0 win to open their playoff sequence in opposition to the Dallas Stars.
Sport 2 within the best-of-seven sequence is Thursday on the Saddledome earlier than heading to American Airways Middle for Saturday’s Sport 3 and Monday’s Sport 4.
Lindholm scored a power-play objective early within the first interval. Jacob Markstrom stopped all 16 photographs he confronted in entrance of a Saddledome sellout for his second profession playoff shutout.
The playoff win was simply Calgary’s second on the Saddledome since 2015.
Dallas starter Jake Oettinger turned away 25-of-26 photographs for the loss in his NHL playoff debut.
Calgary (50-21-11) topped the Pacific Division, whereas the Stars (46-30-6) entered the playoffs by way of the Western Convention’s first wild-card berth.
Calgary led 1-0 after a dominant opening interval. The Flames held the Stars to 3 photographs, and the primary did not occur till 11:05.
Each golf equipment needed to soak up the lack of key defenceman on the finish of the primary interval when Calgary’s Rasmus Andersson and Dallas’s John Klingberg had been served recreation misconducts for preventing on the buzzer.
That tussle adopted Matthew Tkachuk and Michael Raffl additionally throwing punches on the interval’s shut. Tkachuk shoved Klingberg onerous into the boards behind Calgary’s web within the dying seconds.
With out Klingberg, their power-play quarterback, the Stars went 0-for-5 with a person benefit.
The golf equipment traded probabilities within the third. Dallas mustered extra sustained strain in Calgary’s zone within the second interval, however nonetheless trailed by a objective after 40 minutes.
A Blake Coleman objective for Calgary halfway by means of the second interval was waived off due to his interference penalty.
Stars defenceman Jani Hakanpaa was penalized for an unlawful examine to Coleman’s head within the first interval, and the Flames made the guests pay scoring off the making certain faceoff.
Lindholm received the draw and took a Tkachuk feed from the boards. Lindholm bent his proper knee to get oomph behind a wrist shot that beat Oettinger underneath his glove at 5:01 of the interval.
Coleman, who signed with Calgary final 12 months after successful back-to-back Stanley Cups with the Tampa Bay Lightning, went to the bench in misery after the Hakanpaa hit, however the winger completed the interval.
Notes: The Stars ousted the Flames in six video games within the first spherical of the 2020 playoff bubble in Edmonton . . . It is the fourth best-of-seven sequence prior to now 21 years to function 4 40-goal scorers: Flames forwards Lindholm, Tkachuk and Johnny Gaudreau and Dallas ahead Jason Robertson.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Could 3, 2022.
