Elias Lindholm scored the one objective and Jacob Markstrom made 32 saves because the Calgary Flames snapped a four-game shedding skid with a 1-0 victory on Saturday night time over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Calgary (22-22-5) finishes 2-4-0 on its six-game homestand.
The Blackhawks (14-34-2) have misplaced 10 straight on the highway and are winless (0-19-1) of their final 20 away from dwelling. The franchise report is 22 set in 1950-51 (0-20-2).
It’s the second shutout of the season and twentieth of his profession for Markstrom, who improves to 14-13-2.
Petr Mrazek had 29 stops for Chicago. He falls to 12-19-1.
Scoreless by means of the primary 35 minutes, the Flames lastly broke by means of when its Thirtieth-ranked energy play cashed in at 15:55 of the second.
Lindholm arrange Yegor Sharangovich in entrance, whose one-timer was blocked by defenceman Jarred Tinordi, however the puck caromed proper to Lindholm together with the web and he fired it into the vacant facet with Mrazek trapped out of place.
It snaps a 15-game goalless drought for Lindholm, who was chosen by the NHL as Calgary’s consultant for the upcoming all-star sport. It’s simply his second objective within the final 25 video games.
Two years faraway from scoring 42 targets, Lindholm — who’s a pending unrestricted free agent — has simply 9 targets by means of 49 video games.
Whereas Chicago outshot Calgary 32-31, the Blackhawks had a large edge within the high quality of probabilities with Markstrom turning apart 5 breakaways within the first 40 minutes.
Three minutes into the sport, Boris Katchouk obtained in alone, however Markstrom stayed with him as he made a deke to his backhand to get a pad on it.
Six minutes later, Lukas Reichel break up the defence and obtained in alone, however once more Markstrom was there.
Then, conserving the rating 1-0, Markstrom turned apart Isaak Phillips after he break up the Flames defence and obtained in alone.
The largest save for Chicago would possibly properly have been defenceman Kevin Korchinski, who within the last seconds of the primary interval, deflected the puck away off the objective line as Chris Tanev appeared to tuck it in after getting round Mrazek.
Calgary completed 1-for-2 with the additional man.
The Flames open a four-game highway journey on Feb. 6 towards the Boston Bruins.
