Calgary Flames

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) -- The Edmonton Oilers got off to another slow start. This time, they bounced back quickly. Zach Hyman scored the go-ahead.

The Flames were missing top shutdown defenseman Chris Tanev for a third straight game. Hyman celebrated an Oilers goal with just over four minutes left in the opening period, but officials waived it off. With Ryan Nugent-Hopkins penalized for slashing at 16:48, the Flames couldn’t convert a power play into a goal. Defenseman Darnell Nurse was hampered down low without his in the second period and didn’t manage an exchange with a forward. Hyman broke his stick and wasn’t able to retrieve another from the bench before Stone’s slapshot from the point beat Smith bottom corner glove side. Smith passed the puck to Draisaitl for another breakaway just over two minutes later. The only other players in NHL history with a run of five or more multi-point games were Wayne Gretzky (1983), Tony Currie (1981), Darryl Sittler (1977), Evgeni Malkin (2009) and Dale Hawerchuk (1993). One of the NHL’s top teams 5-on-5, the Flames were short-handed for almost 11 minutes. “It’s the playoffs. “He’s willing to pay a price to win. “Markstrom was really, really good for us. He’s driven to win,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said.

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That’s something that is hard to handle, but that’s something that is also not 5-on-5. It’s not our game.” If we stay 5-on-5, I think we’re in a good spot.” When we play 5-on-5 we’re having good starts and we like our game. When we start getting into situations where it's 4-on-4, it’s not to our advantage. He's taking his game to another level and that's hard to do already.

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He’s a special player and he has six points in the two games of this series so far. He’s almost always worth the price of admission, and he was excellent in Game 2. In Game 2, the Flames weren’t quite as impressive, but they still carried play when nobody was in the penalty box. In Game 1, the Flames borderline dominated play at full strength. Game 2 saw the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers handle things a little bit less chaotically, but the game was still pretty full of offense, action and momentum swings. Game 1 of the playoff Battle of Alberta was a track meet.

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For instance, there’s always a Leafs angle, and in this case it’s Hyman, who last summer was the subject of both the headline “ The Toronto Maple Leafs Are Losing Zach Hyman and That’s Fine” from Editor in Leaf, and a line from the inimitable Toronto Sun street food fabulist Steve Simmons, “the Leafs will miss him terribly when he’s gone.” And in this case, you have to give it to Simmons, the Leafs do miss Hyman, who ordinarily would be rounding out a foursome with his teammates this morning to get a quick 18 holes in before hitting the beach, and surely is missed terribly… Connor McDavid had a goal and an assist, becoming the first player to reach 20 playoff points in 9 games since Mario Lemieux in 1992. It doesn’t really matter who won which, unless you believe in momentum, in which case Edmonton did come back from a two-goal deficit, staring a two-game deficit in the face, to win Friday night’s Game 2 in Calgary.

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In their past 10 matchups, the Oilers have gone 7-2-1 to earn 80.0% of the possible points. Oddsmakers have implied, based on the moneyline in this matchup, that the Oilers have a 49.3% chance to win. In their past 10 matchups, the Flames have gone 9-1-0 to earn 95.0% of the possible points. Oilers Stats and TrendsThe Oilers have been an underdog in 28 games this season, with 10 upset wins (35.7%). Edmonton has won seven of its 19 games when it is the underdog by +103 or longer on the moneyline. Flames Stats and TrendsCalgary has been victorious in 50 of the 78 games it’s played as the moneyline favorite this season. In 74 games with lower than -124 moneyline odds this season, the Flames have won 49.

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The Flames were missing top shutdown defenseman Chris Tanev for a third straight game. Hyman celebrated an Oilers goal with just over four minutes left in the opening period, but officials waived it off. With Ryan Nugent-Hopkins penalized for slashing at 16:48, the Flames couldn’t convert a power play into a goal. Defenseman Darnell Nurse was hampered down low without his in the second period and didn’t manage an exchange with a forward. Hyman broke his stick and wasn’t able to retrieve another from the bench before Stone’s slapshot from the point beat Smith bottom corner glove side. Smith passed the puck to Draisaitl for another breakaway just over two minutes later. ... McDavid stretched his playoff multi-point streak to five straight games. One of the NHL’s top teams 5-on-5, the Flames were short-handed for almost 11 minutes. “It’s the playoffs. “He’s willing to pay a price to win. “You’ve just got to keep working,” Hyman said. He’s driven to win,” Oilers coach Jay Woodcroft said.

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In a bit of odd schedule-making, the only game on deck in the Stanley Cup playoffs Saturday is Game 3 between the Colorado Avalanche and Blues in St. Louis. Granted, he was put in a tight spot as Brendan Smith beat him on a shorthanded attempt all alone in front of the net, but the margin of error has been so razor-thin in this series so far that conceding just one goal is enough to flip a game. Like a throwback to the battles that raged between these two teams in the 1980s, this sixth edition of the Battle of Alberta in the playoffs has seen the offensive skill on both sides highlighted in a big way.

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This was the case in the playoffs too. Those pesky petty Dallas Stars. They never go down without a fight, they wait till the last minute to try and win, and they’ll induce the most stress possible with the least goals scored. They show that what happened in this first round series had already been experienced in the regular season. These younger stars were a shining part of the season. Radulov was healthy scratched during both the regular season and playoffs. If he stays in Dallas maybe that was the start of him finding his groove again. The trials and defeats, the extreme highs and lows of Stars hockey became a familiar rhythm. Thomas Harley did not play despite a lackluster power play and the same old scoring struggles. A winning streak was approached with bated breath as the string of losses was sure to follow. When the Flames leapt in celebration and the Stars embraced Jake Oettinger in comfort, the result wasn’t shocking. The American Airlines Center bursting with playoffs energy for the first time since 2019 was not enough. It’s easy to get caught up in the numbers.