In Calgary, Walker Duehr‘s first period goal gave the Flames a 2-1 lead over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.
And that was it, as the Flames managed a 2-1 win over the Kings to get within three points of the Winnipeg Jets for the second wild card in the Western Conference.
“It felt like kind of a playoff game,” Duehr said. “We had our pushes, they had their pushes. I thought ‘Marky’ stood on his head tonight and gave us a chance to win, for sure.”
The Flames improved to 34-26-15.
Jacob Markstrom made 33 saves in the Calgary win.
“Big two points,” Markstrom said. “Put them in the books and then go back to work.”
The Kings dropped to 43-21-10, and had their 12-game point streak stopped.
“I don’t think it was a lack of effort, certainly today,” Kings captain Anze Kopitar said. “It was a hard-fought game, a physical game. For the most part we did a good job. Just obviously unfortunately we didn’t convert on a few of our chances. We created quite a few of them. This time of the year you’ve got to score in order to win. Came up a bit short. It certainly wasn’t the worst game that we’ve played.”
Andrew Mangiapane staked the Flames to a 1-0 lead in the first period.
“It’s huge. He (Markstrom) was good all night,” Calgary center Elias Lindholm said. “Real sharp. We need him to play like that.”
Sean Durzi tied the game, 1-1, in the first.
“On our behalf there wasn’t a lot of [offensive] zone time, yet we had some really good scoring chances, long chances that had us looking at Markstrom and he made some really good saves,” Kings coach Todd McLellan said. “At the other end, we spent too much time in our end, and I thought our game management for the first time in a long time was poor.”
Joonas Korpisalo made 30 saves in the LA loss.
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