Mikael Backlund scored the third-period recreation winner for the Calgary Flames in a 3-2 win over the visiting Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday.
Elias Lindholm and Tyler Toffoli additionally scored for the hosts, who improved to 3-0 to begin the NHL season.
Jonathan Huberdeau, acquired in an low season commerce with the Florida Panthers, assisted on Calgary’s first two objectives of the sport for his third level in as many video games.
Kadri, signed as a free agent in August, had an help and now has a purpose and three assists in his first three video games as a Flame.
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Jacob Markstrom made 19 saves for the win in Calgary’s internet.
William Provider and Brett Howden scored their first objectives of the season for Vegas (3-1). Calgarian Logan Thompson stopped 37 of 40 pictures within the loss.
After the Flames killed off a pair of hooking minors within the third interval, Backlund scored a go-ahead purpose at 15:31. Blake Coleman collected the puck off the glass and shovelled it out entrance to Backlund on Thompson’s doorstep.
Backlund’s 168th profession purpose for the Flames ranks him fifth amongst franchise centremen and one forward of Joel Otto.
Down two objectives after the opening interval, Calgary transformed two of six power-play possibilities within the second to attract even by 13:19.
After lacking a pair of scoring possibilities earlier within the recreation, Toffoli corralled a rebound within the slot going backhand to forehand to beat Thompson excessive stick facet.
Toffoli had a taking pictures lane and a few open internet earlier within the interval however regarded skyward when he shot the puck excessive.
Lindholm halved the deficit at 10:43 when Thompson juggled his shot excessive into the air.
The Knights’ goalie overlooked the puck falling behind him as teammates Alec Martinez and Alex Pietrangelo tried to bat it away.
The Flames had two consecutive energy performs to begin the second interval. Cassidy efficiently challenged Lindholm’s purpose for goalie interference at 4:39. Kadri was down within the crease when Lindholm banged in a rebound.
Vegas led by two at 15:23 of the primary interval on Howden’s knee-high deflection of a Brayden McNabb shot from the blue line.
Thompson down within the crease reached as much as glove a golden likelihood for Toffoli along with the online halfway by the opening interval.
Markstrom mistimed his tried gloving of Provider’s wrist shot to provide the guests a 1-0 lead at 3:55.
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