Dallas Stars

The Flames are now one win away from eliminating the Dallas Stars after winning Game 5 Wednesday night.

“It’s going to feel a lot better than if we were down (in the series),” Backlund said. And they will be in front of a loud home crowd at American Airlines Center. As Sutter said, each win in the playoffs is tougher than the last. There will be a playoff-savvy Dallas team waiting for them on Friday, a team that has given the Flames unexpected issues in this opening round. Since the 2004 Stanley Cup Final run, every time the Flames have lost a Game 5 with the series tied 2-2, they have lost the series. They are there because the Backlund line showed up on Wednesday. But also because Johnny Gaudreau played the hero in Game 4. Backlund was the only player to be on the ice for all three Calgary goals, except for Erik Gudbranson. Shot attempts were 22-13 with Backlund on the ice, and the Flames had around 73 percent of the expected goals. On Wednesday, the Flames made another important move, coming back from a 1-0 deficit to beat the Stars 3-1 at the Saddledome. The franchise that hadn’t turned a tied series into a 3-2 lead in almost two decades — the club has only done it twice since 2004-05 — finally did it. A period away from being down in the first round. Trailing against the Stars in a pivotal Game 5. “It was loud,” Backlund added. The Saddledome was quiet and it was tense, filled with nearly 20,000 fans who had seen this before.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Trevor Lewis all scored in the third period, leading the Calgary Flames to a 3-1 victory over ...

Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau took a deflected puck in the side of the head at the Stars’ blue line. Mangiapane took three strides in and beat Oettinger’s glove with a high shot at 13:20. Our whole team just fed off that energy from the fans.” “I haven’t scored much down the stretch here,” Backlund said. He drove in from the boards and wristed a shot that deflected off Markstrom’s glove and then off defenseman Noah Hanifin into Calgary’s net. “We knew they were going to come hard,” Robertson said.

The Dallas Stars trail their first round series 3-2 after falling in Game 5 against the Calgary Flames, and it's the same story for the team from Texas.

Through five games, the Stars have scored eight goals, with four of those coming in Game 3. I give goaltender Jake Oettinger all the credit in the world for the way he has played in these playoffs, but it likely won’t be enough to save his team. The bad news for the Stars is that they only mustered one of those four goals.