Andrei Kuzmenko scored three targets, Nazem Kadri had a purpose and two assists, and the Calgary Flames withstood Anaheim’s third-period rally for a 6-3 victory over the Geese on Friday evening.
Kuzmenko received his second profession hat trick with two targets within the last 5:38 after Anaheim had trimmed Calgary’s 4-0 result in one purpose. Andrew Mangiapane and Connor Zary additionally scored for the Flames, who received for less than the third time in 12 video games. Dustin Wolf made 19 saves.
Sam Colangelo scored a purpose in his NHL debut for the Geese, and Frank Vatrano and Olen Zellweger scored shortly afterward. However Kuzmenko deflected Jonathan Huberdeau’s shot to maintain the Flames forward with 5:38 to play on an influence play, and he added one other lower than three minutes later.
The sport additionally was the final at Honda Heart for longtime Geese ahead Jakob Silfverberg, who introduced his impending retirement this week after a 12-year NHL profession.
John Gibson stopped 21 photographs within the last dwelling recreation of the sixth consecutive non-playoff season for the Geese, who’ve misplaced 15 of 18. Anaheim completed with simply 12 dwelling victories this season, fewer than each staff besides NHL-worst San Jose with 11.
Mangiapane tapped in his 14th purpose to cap a powerful sequence of short-handed forechecking by Calgary within the first interval. Kadri doubled the lead six minutes later along with his twenty seventh purpose, and Kuzmenko scored his nineteenth of the season from inside Gibson’s purpose crease within the second interval.
The Geese trailed 4-0 earlier than Colangelo simply tapped in his purpose within the third interval when a puck trickled beneath Wolf and sat within the crease. The Geese drafted Colangelo within the second spherical in 2020, and the 22-year-old ahead from Massachusetts turned professional this month after his senior season at Western Michigan.
Vatrano scored on a spectacular no-look pass from Trevor Zegras behind the Flames’ web, and Zellweger made it 4-3 simply 48 seconds later with a shot via site visitors for his second profession purpose.
The 33-year-old Silfverberg spent the final 11 seasons of his 12-year NHL profession with the Geese, enjoying a key supporting position as a gifted two-way ahead on a sequence of 5 consecutive Pacific Division champions from 2013-17. Anaheim made two Western Convention finals throughout that stretch with Silfverberg, who rebounded from a probably severe blood clot in his leg two seasons in the past to complete out his contract this 12 months.
Silfverberg received a standing ovation after a tribute video performed through the first media timeout. Earlier than the sport, the ahead obtained a Rolex watch, a custom-made desk tennis desk and a gaming chair from totally different parts of the group.
UP NEXT
Flames: Host Arizona on Sunday.
Geese: At Los Angeles on Saturday.
