The Calgary Flames bounced back from a dreadful outing against the Edmonton Oilers and defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-3 on Friday night.
Jacob Markstrom made 24 saves to get the win.
“I thought we played really well, checked well, and gave up very little odd-man rushes,” Flames head coach Darryl Sutter said. “It was not a track-meet game at all. We have a team that can play together, and if we just eliminate little mistakes in our game and stay out of the penalty box, we can play with them.”
The Leafs have lost three in a row and six of seven.
“You want it to flip and get the results, but that doesn’t do us any good,” Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe said. “We’ve got to just regroup here and recognize this as an opportunity for us to realize how it is we need to play and how consistent we need to be.”
The game-winner came from
Mark Giordano who potted a power play goal in the second period to give the Flames s 4-3 lead.
“We got a pretty good group in there,”
Wayne Simmonds said. “We know we’re doing some good things, but at the same time, we’re having these little mistakes that are ending up in the back of our net. We’ve got to make sure that we’re playing a full 60 minutes; not 50, not 55.”
Christopher Tanev, Matthew Tkachuk and Derek Ryan scored for the Flames to give them a 3-1 lead before the Maple Leafs rallied to tie the game up.
“It was nice to get the first one, but we’ve got to do a better job of when we get the first one, keep building off that lead and don’t let them back into it,” Tkachuk said.
“It’s difficult on a night like tonight when everything seems to find its way through traffic,” Andersen said. “I know personally I didn’t lose my abilities to play good. Same goes for our team. You want to get out of this slump here and start winning games.”
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