Brayden Pachal was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct minor for crunching Drury along the boards after a whistle. Shortly after that, Blake Coleman was called for slashing, giving Colorado 1:21 of five-on-three power play time.<\/p>\n
On the five-on-three, Nazem Kadri buried a feed from Martin Necas to Wolf\u2019s left to give the Avalanche a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Nazem Kadri scores against his former team. It’s 2-0 Colorado <\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n Still on a five-on-four power play, Wolf made a stop on the first Avalanche chance, but the puck blooped over to Kadri, standing basically where he was a minute earlier, and he again fired the puck past Wolf to give the Avalanche a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n Nazem Kadri scores his 2nd goal of the game. <\/p>\n It’s 3-0 Avs less than 8 minutes into the game. <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n A little later, the Avalanche kept pressing. Brock Nelson made a nice pass after a zone entry to send Gabriel Landeskog in all alone against Wolf. Wolf made the initial stop but Landeskog poked in the rebound to give Colorado a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n Gabe Landeskog puts Colorado up 4-0. <\/p>\n Devin Cooley is replacing Dustin Wolf in the Flames crease. <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n Dustin Wolf was pulled from this game after allowing four goals on 16 shots. Devin Cooley came into the game in relief.<\/p>\n And late in the period, Colorado scored again. This time, Parker Kelly made a nice redirect of a shot from Cale Makar that ricocheted past Cooley to give the Avalanche a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n Parker Kelly puts the Avs up 5-0. <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n First period shots were 26-8 Avalanche.<\/p>\n Perhaps it was the Avalanche sitting back after putting five on the Flames in the opening frame, but the Flames were a lot more aggressive and effective in the second period.<\/p>\n The Flames got rewarded early in the period, as John Beecher made a nice play, chasing after a puck bouncing around in the Colorado zone, corralling it, and then throwing it on net. Brennan Othmann chipped the puck past Scott Wedgewood to get the Flames on the board \u2013 and give Othmann his first NHL goal as a Flame \u2013 to cut Colorado\u2019s lead to 5-1.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd25FLAMES GOAL\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n Brennan Othmann scores his first goal as a Calgary Flame! <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n But the Avalanche answered back late in the second period. With Zach Whitecloud in the box for tripping, Nathan MacKinnon blasted a one-timer past Cooley \u2013 just inside the far post as Cooley was moving left to right \u2013 to give the home side a 6-1 lead.<\/p>\n 6-1 Avalanche. <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n Second period shots were 8-7 Flames.<\/p>\n Midway through the third period, the Avalanche added a couple quick goals to add insult to injury.<\/p>\n First, Cooley made a couple saves off a flurry of rapid Avalanche chances in front, but Colorado kept at it and Necas was left wide-open in front as the Flames defence scrambled around the zone, and Necas put the puck under Cooley\u2019s arm to go up 7-1.<\/p>\n 7-1 Avalanche. <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n A bit later, the Flames were caught up ice trying to generate some chances. The play went the other way and Sam Malinski, pinching, went in on Cooley and tucked the puck past the netminder to go up 8-1.<\/p>\n 8-1 Avalanche <\/p>\n \ud83c\udfa5: Amazon Prime | #Flames<\/a> <\/p>\n The Flames got one back, though. The third line executed nicely off the rush, with Yegor Sharangovich getting to a rebound first and sending a pass back to the slot area for Ryan Strome, who put the puck past Wedgewood to cut Colorado\u2019s lead to 8-2.<\/p>\n Ryan Strome picks up another point as a member of the Flames. That’s 10 points in 13 games for the newly acquired centre. <\/p>\n
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