In Calgary, the Anaheim Ducks took a 3-1 lead early in the third period and appeared in control of their game with the Flames.
Calgary had other ideas and outscored the Ducks, 5-1 the rest of the period en route to a 6-4 win on Monday afternoon.
Andrew Mangiapane had a hat trick for the Flames 0 file photo by Lewis Bleiman
Nicolas Deslauriers had scored early in the final frame to give the Ducks the 3-1 lead.
Andrew Mangiapane struck for a hat trick for the Flames.
“It’s important,” Mangiapane said. “I felt like we were doing good work on the road and we just needed to carry that over to the home. I don’t know why or whatever reason why we weren’t getting points, but we just have to keep playing the right way. It has to be a tough building to play in and that’s what it was tonight.”
Cam Talbot made 26 saves to get the win.
“The way the first two periods went I thought it was just a matter of time,” Talbot said. “I thought we were the better team through the first two periods. They just got a couple lucky breaks and made some nice plays. To see us explode for five there was huge and obviously for [Mangiapane] to get us going there and finish it off with a hat trick was huge.”
The Ducks dropped to 2-2-2 in their last six after teasing that they might make a push in the weakened Pacific Division.
“It was more us giving it to them than them taking it to us,” Anaheim’s Hampus Lindholm said. “That’s something you can say. I think we as a team need to find ways to win those games, especially a road game, 3-1 in the third, that’s a very good position to be in.”
Sam Bennett tied the game in the third, 3-3.
Matthew Tkachuk and Seam Monahan also scored for Calgary.
“I think we were playing well in the first two [periods],” Mangiapane said. “I think puck management was big for us, just playing north, chipping it in and going after it and playing hard on the forecheck and funneling pucks to the net. That’s key to the game and that’s what we showed in the third.”
Adam Henrique and Jakob Silfverberg had strikes for Anaheim.
“There were some breakdowns and they got the bounces there and got the pucks in,” Lindholm said. “We need to find ways to still be in the hockey game even when that happens to us. It felt like the game slipped away from us.”
Anaheim’s Devin Shore added a goal with four seconds left on the clock for the final goal in the game.
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Ryan Miller made 37 saves in the loss.
“I think after the second period we talked about it,” Deslauriers said. “We played okay. We were still in the game. They capitalized on every chance we gave them. I don’t we played a bad game. Every little mistake, they just dinged us there.”
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