The Utah Mammoth beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Wednesday evening in Salt Lake City, giving the Flames their fourth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n
Let’s take a look at the takeaways:<\/p>\n
Calgary did not get a shot on goal in the game until during their first power play at the 7:25 mark of the first period. By that time, Utah already had four shots on goal. But the second shot by the Flames 1:10 later found the back of the net, recording a power play goal for Rasmus Andersson.<\/p>\n
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While the shots on goal were 10-5 favoring Utah, the score line still read 1-0 Calgary at the first break.<\/p>\n
The second period, however, was a nightmare.<\/p>\n
The Mammoth outshot the Flames 38-11 in total shots in the second period with 18-3 in shots on goal, primarily due to the fact that Calgary were on the penalty-kill for 6:01. Unfortunately, two of those Utah shots ended up in the back of the net, putting the home side up 2-1 by the second intermission.<\/p>\n
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The Flames did outshoot the Mammoth 12-4 on the net in the final period, but Utah goalie Karel Vejmelka absolutely stonewalled the Calgary skaters.<\/p>\n
Here’s the bright side: Calgary did not give up any power play goals.<\/p>\n
They were 6-for-6 on the PK. They are now 17-of-20 in the season which is outstanding stuff.<\/p>\n
In his Flames debut, despite the loss, you couldn’t have asked for anything more from the 28-year-old.<\/p>\n
Out of all of Utah’s scoring chances (31), almost half of them (14) came from their six power plays, so it was no walk in the park for Cooley.<\/p>\n
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He ended his night with 29 saves off 31 shots for a save percentage of 0.935.<\/p>\n
Some of the other things I liked was the Flames winning the faceoff battle 29-of-52 (55.8%) which was a big issue coming in.<\/p>\n
Joel Farabee topped the forwards in minutes and tied his career-best in shots on goal in a game with four.<\/p>\n
Kevin Bahl took three blocks to prevent any more Utah goals.<\/p>\n
But the fact remains: Calgary needs to break their losing streak.<\/p>\n
They will now travel to Sin City to take on the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Mammoth beat the Calgary Flames 3-1 on Wednesday evening in Salt Lake City, giving the Flames…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,6864,896,5,9296,1521,2338,4,3327,1095,3934,3318,3154,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-252387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-devin-cooley","12":"tag-flames","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-joel-farabee","15":"tag-karel-vejmelka","16":"tag-kevin-bahl","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-rasmus-andersson","19":"tag-salt-lake-city","20":"tag-shots-on-goal","21":"tag-the-flames","22":"tag-utah-mammoth","23":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115396951393025194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}