Blake Coleman had a goal and two assists to lead the Calgary Flames to a 5-2 victory over the reeling Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night.
Jonathan Huberdeau, Dillon Dube, Rasmus Andersson and Trevor Lewis also scored for the Flames, who were playing the third game of a six-game road trip.
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Tanner Laczynski and Joel Farabee scored for the Flyers, who have lost seven in a row.
The Flames took a 2-0 lead in the first.
Huberdeau put the Flames on the board 4:43 in. After Philadelphia’s Tony DeAngelo turned the puck over in the Flyers zone, Huberdeau raced ahead on a two-on-one and finished his third goal of the season with a wrist shot past Carter Hart’s. glove side.
Calgary Flames’ Jonathan Huberdeau, center, celebrates his goal with Blake Coleman (20) and Mikael Backlund during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, in Philadelphia.
(AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)
Dube tallied in nearly identical fashion with 6:09 to play in the first, firing a wrist shot past Hart on a two-on-one. This one came off the opposite side and got past Hart’s glove.
Philadelphia scored just 36 seconds later, when Laczynski scored his first NHL goal by deflecting Kevin Hayes’ shot from the point. The assist gave Hayes points in six straight games, with three goals and four assists.
Andersson scored the only goal of the second when his long-range slap shot went off the stick of Farabee and past Hart 3:29 into the period.
Farabee made amends with 11:57 left in the third, as he pulled Philadelphia within 3-2. Flames wing Andrew Mangiapane fired a pass off the boards right to Farabee, who fired a wrist shot from the slot past Jacob Markstrom’s blocker side.
Markstrom made 23 saves.
Coleman, playing in his 400th career NHL game, scored the first of two Flames empty-netters with 1:51 left in the third. Lewis completed the scoring with 37 seconds remaining.
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