CALGARY, Alberta — Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Trevor Lewis all scored in the third time period, primary the Calgary Flames to a 3-1 victory more than the Dallas Stars on Wednesday evening to get a 3-2 lead in their very first-spherical playoff collection.
Jacob Markstrom produced 20 will save for the Flames, who can acquire the sequence Saturday in Dallas. If needed, Game 7 would be back in Calgary on Sunday.
“It feels a large amount better than if we were being down, but we know it is going to be a actually hard game” Backlund explained. “Of study course, we truly feel self-assured and thrilled going there. It is a massive sport.”
Jason Robertson scored the lone purpose for Dallas, and Jake Oettinger stopped 29 shots.
Robertson, who experienced a staff-top 41 objectives in the frequent time, scored his very first in the playoffs at 13:21 of the second interval to place the Stars forward 1-. He drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove and then off defenseman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s net.
But the line of Backlund, Mangiapane and Blake Coleman struck in the 3rd.
“We understood they ended up going to occur difficult,” Robertson reported. “We tried using to lower their velocity to the neutral zone and we did not and it value us.”
Mangiapane circled out from powering the goal line and centered the puck for Backlund’s redirect by Oettinger to make it 1-1 at 6:49 of the third.
“I have not scored a lot down the stretch below,” Backlund reported. “It felt actually fantastic to place the puck in the internet and these kinds of a huge aim as very well.”
The Flames took the guide when Backlund was in the neutral zone and fed a backhand go to Mangiapane at the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a high shot at 13:20.
“It was loud,” Mangiapane reported of the Saddledome crowd. “It was wonderful even when Backs scored. You could listen to the constructing erupt. I consider the followers were waiting for a objective. Our entire staff just fed off that vitality from the fans.”
Lewis sealed it with an vacant-netter with 58 seconds still left.
Neither team scored on their two electricity-engage in possibilities and are 2-for-19 in the collection.
“We’re heading to appear at some stuff from this sport and get prepared for the subsequent recreation and it is not around however,” Dallas’ Roope Hintz stated.
Flames ahead Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck in the side of the head at the Stars’ blue line. He went to the dressing place for treatment late in the time period, but was back again in the video game in the 2nd interval.
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