Morgan Frost scored the winning goal of Shootout and once counted in regulation while Calgary recorded a 5-4 victory against the Golden Knights of Vegas visiting Tuesday, but it was not enough to maintain the hopes of the Séries eliminations of the Stanley of Flames Cup.
Nazem Kadri collected a goal and a decisive pass while Mikael Backlund and Adam Klapka also scored for Calgary (40-27-14, 94 points), which was officially eliminated from the connection of the playoffs. Matt Coronato marked two assists.
The goalkeeper of the Flames Dustin Wolf made 38 stops by regulation and overtime while Calgary beat Vegas for the last time in the last of the four team meetings this season.
Brandon Saad scored a goal in a three-point game for Vegas (49-22-10, 108 points), which had already won the crown of the Pacific division and posed some key players. Tomas Hertl of the Golden Knights had a goal and a decisive pass and Pavel Dorofeyev and Nicolas Roy added simple.
Goalkeeper Ilya Samsonov made 24 stops by regulation and overtime for Vegas, who will face Minnesota Wild during the first round of the playoffs.
Frost, the third participant in the Flames shootings, was the only scorer when he broke a quick forehand just inside the post to end the last home match of Calgary.
The flames were officially eliminated before the start of the third period with the victory of Wild and St. Louis Blues, but that did not prevent the flames from putting pressure on another return victory.
Dorofeyev opened the scoring at 5:25 in the competition. His shot from the right circle turned to the stick of a defender and in the net for his 34th goal of the season.
Frost equaled the confrontation five minutes later by converting a bright corner shot of the right circle for the purpose of the power game which broke his drought of 25 games.
The goals of Roy and Hertl before the first intermission put the Golden Knights by a pair. Roy marked at 14:52 with a breakdown count, and Hertl converted the cross pass from Saad with 24 remaining seconds in the opening framework.
From there, the two teams have erased deficits. Kadri scored 32 seconds in the third period on a power game, a perfect shot from the summit of the right circle for his 33rd in career of the season. Backlund equaled the 1:04 clash of the third with a high -end Ccorner shot from the high slit.
Klapka gave Calgary an advance from 4-3 to 11:01 a.m. from the last period by redirecting a flow from Brayden Pachal, but Saad equaled the match 11 seconds later when he jumped a rebound.
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