In Calgary, the Flames got a goal from Milan Lucic, his first with the Flames, and the Calgary special teams held the Buffalo Sabres to 1-for-8 on the power play in a 4-3 win Thursday night. 
David Rittich made 26 saves as the Sabres tried to rally in the third period to close within one goal.
“We’re trending in the right direction, and our game keeps building the way we want it to go,” Lucic said. “I think not only that, we’re getting contributions throughout the whole lineup. Everyone’s a part of it, and we’re going to need more of that moving forward.”
Sam Reinhart, Jake McCabe and Jack Eichel scored for Buffalo.
“I don’t think we played a very good game,” Victor Olofsson said. “I feel like we didn’t play well at all. Started OK, and then Calgary, I thought they took over. They were a lot better than us today up until the last few minutes of the game where we kind of woke up, and we fought to the end but couldn’t get that last one in.”
Sean Monahan, Johnny Gaudreau and Tobias Rieder scored for the Flames.
“I was excited I got a goal,” Gaudreau said. “They haven’t been coming easy for me this year. It was nice. Hopefully, it gets me out of that little slump there and I keep putting them in the net.”
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Linus Ullmark made 25 saves in the loss.
“They pressured us all over the ice,” Oloffson said. “You definitely saw it on the PK. We had a lot of power play chances, but we didn’t convert, so that’s one thing that we’ve got to be a lot better.”
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