EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) Noah Hanifin had two goals and an assist and the Calgary Flames beat the Edmonton Oilers 6-3 on Saturday for their third straight victory.
Nazeem Kadri, Martin Pospisil, Dryden Hunt and Blake Coleman also scored and Dan Vladar made 32 saves to help Calgary beat Edmonton for the first time in three games this season.
āIt was a great team effort tonight,ā Hanifin said. āWe needed to get a win against those guys, weāve had a tough time playing them lately and I thought we had a really good start to the game.
āWe played with a lot of emotion and passion, and thatās something youāve got to do when you play a team with that much skill. I thought it was a really complete game for us.ā
Zach Hyman scored twice and Mattias Janmark added a late goal for Edmonton. The Oilers have lost three in a row.
āI mean, itās an 82-game season. Would you like to play perfect every 10-game stretch? Sure. Are you going to? Probably not,ā Hyman said. āAt the same time, weāre getting closer to the playoffs and weāre still fighting for a spot. We have to learn that we canāt just flip it on and think weāre going to win every game in the third period. You have to start on time.ā
Kadri opened the scoring at 2:02 of the first period on the first shot of the game. He poked the puck past goalie Stuart Skinner for his 21st of the season.
Pospisil and Hanifin scored in the period to make it 3-0. Hyman rallied the Oilers, scoring his 36th of the season on a power play late in the first, then adding his career-high 37th early in the second.
Hunt and Hanifin countered with goals in the second. In the third, Edmonton pulled Skinner for an extra attacker with more than seven minutes left, and Coleman scored his 23rd on a long shot into the empty net.
āItās the consistency weād like to see,ā Flames coach Ryan Huska said. āWeāve been fighting it, and if thereās a knock on us itās been our inability to put streaks together and our inability to stop streaks.ā
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