In Calgary, the visiting Ottawa Senators took a 3-2 lead over the Flames into the third period on Tuesday, and promptly surrendered four goals in the third en route to a 6-3 loss.
The Flames moved to 18-18-5.
Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves in the win.
Noah Hanifin started the third period rally with a marker 47 seconds into the period for a 3-3 tie.
Blake Coleman hit for what would be the game-winner at 8:57 for a 4-3 advantage.
“We probably don’t win the game without a lot of his big saves tonight, but that one stands out with the tie game and the circumstances we were in,” Coleman said. “He’s been great all year. Tonight was no different. He’s just really calm and composed, and it seems it just bleeds through our locker room the way he plays back there.”
From there on, the Senators were out of the match.
Yegor Sharangovich added breathing room when he potted a goal at 15:45 for a 5-3 lead.
Coleman hit for a double with an empty net strike with less than three minutes left on the game clock for the 6-3 final count on the scoreboard .
“There wasn’t much going for me in the first couple [periods],” Coleman said. “Our line’s pretty positive in the sense that we can flip that switch and get it going when we need to. That reinforcement of positivity usually keeps us going, and I thought we played a great third period. That was collective as a team. Take myself out of it. I thought guys made some really big plays when we needed them, ‘Marky’ some big saves and a big win.”
The Senators dropped to14-22-0, they have lost four straight and five of their last six matches.
“We win as one, we lose as one,” Ottawa’s Jakob Chychrun said. “It’s just frustrating. Honestly, I don’t know; I wish I had the answers for us as a group. I think it can be really hard to stay positive at times, but we’re really left with no other option. We just need to continue to put the work boots on and find a way out of this hole. It’s just all of us as a group in here, we just need to pull in the same direction and find a way out of it.”
Ottawa started out with a decent effort with Jacob Bernard-Docker shot from the blue line fund a way for a 1-0 lead to the Senators at 4:09 of the opening stanza.
Just 33 seconds later, Connor Zary knotted it up at 1-1, with a shot from the right wide.
“We score a goal, you’re looking to have a strong shift after, and then when you get scored on right away after, it’s not good,” Ottawa’s Thomas Chabot said. “Everybody’s aware of that. It’s about us in here and there’s nothing else to be said. It’s simple as that. It’s this group of guys. It’s us that goes out there and plays the games. We can do video, we can do systems, whatever it might be. At the end of the day, it’s us going out there and executing the game plan.”
Ottawa reclaimed the lead on a marker from Dominik Kubalik with three second left in the first.
Sharangovich hit for his first of a pair of goals on the night at 3:50 of the middle frame to tie it, 2-2.
Brady Tkachuk sent the game to third with Ottawa up, 3-2, when potted a goal at 12:39 off the second.
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Joonas Korpisalo made 30 saves in the loss.
“First two periods were pretty good,” Chychrun said. “The room was energized and feeling good about the way we were playing in a road game here in Calgary, and [we] just went out in the third and blew it. It’s as simple as that.”
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