In Calgary, Joel Hofer made 27 saves, and the St Louis Blues blanked the Flames, 3-0, on Thursday night.
“Definitely pretty cool,” Hofer said. “I’m obviously very grateful to be in this position and the guys played really great in front of me, and I’m just happy to get the win tonight.”
THe Flames have lost four in a row,.
“Everybody’s sick of losing for sure,” Calgary defenseman Nikita Zadorov said. “I don’t want to lose four in a row. It’s still early in the season. We can fix that stuff. I believe in this team. I think we have a really good team, really good skill players. I think we can get out of it. Just embarrassing in front of our fans tonight, for sure.”
Kasperi Kapanen scored just past the midway point of the opening frame to give the Blues a 1-0 lead.
“It’s my move. There’s not much to it,” Kapanen said. “(Sundqvist) made a good play, good pass, and I thought I’d try it out and I’m just happy I got my first.”
Nick Leddy scored two minutes later to extend the advantage to 2-0.
“Right from the get-go in the game, I liked the way we were moving and skating and playing,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “Our forecheck, we established that right away, we talked about that, and our cycle game, it was good.”
Oskar Sundqvist added insurance into an empty net with just over two minutes left on the clock in the third for the 3-0 final.
“Everybody’s sick of losing for sure,” Calgary defenseman Nikita Zadorov said. “I don’t want to lose four in a row. It’s still early in the season. We can fix that stuff. I believe in this team. I think we have a really good team, really good skill players. I think we can get out of it. Just embarrassing in front of our fans tonight, for sure.”
Jacob Markstrom made 32 saves in the loss.
“I know we’ve got compete and we’ve got work ethic,” Flames defenseman MacKenzie Weegar said. “Tonight, it almost felt like in the third period they almost broke our will. You’ve got one thing and it’s pride and I think they broke our will tonight and you could kind of tell in the third period we couldn’t get anything going, but you’ve got to keep your head high in this league. If you keep banging your head, you keep hanging your head, it’s just going to make it worse and things are going to spiral. You’ve got to get back to it. It’s a new day tomorrow.”
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