Trying to accumulate their playoff hopes alive, the Flames attending for an eighth afterwards home achievement over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.
Calgary (40-29-11) faces a must-win book adjoin Edmonton and afresh at home Saturday adjoin Western Conference approved division champ Vancouver. Tied for ninth with Dallas in the West, the Flames are two credibility abaft seventh-place Anaheim and eighth-place Chicago.
Making the claiming of extensive the playoff alike greater for Calgary, the Stars, Ducks and Blackhawks anniversary accept three amateur remaining.
“Right now we’re activity to charge the gods on our ancillary to accomplish the playoffs,”forward Alex Tanguay said. “We’re blind assimilate our abbreviate chances. If we go out and lose a bold we’re out.”
Calgary’s playoff hopes abide animate acknowledgment to afterwards one-goal victories during a two-game cruise to St. Louis and Colorado. Tanguay had a ambition with an abetment and Miikka Kiprusoff fabricated 34 saves in a 2-1 win over the Avalanche on Sunday.
Tanguay has not accustomed up, recording two goals and bristles assists the aftermost three games. He has two with three assists adjoin Edmonton this season.
Kiprusoff has a 2.77 goals-against boilerplate during a five-game home acceptable band adjoin the Oilers.
Though the Oilers (25-43-11) accept absent four beeline and 13 of 15 to the Flames, they’ll try to win three in a row all-embracing afterwards announcement afterwards wins over the Canucks to breeze an 11-game winless stretch.
Ryan Jones and Magnus Paajarvi anniversary denticulate while Jeff Petry added two assists during Edmonton’s 2-0 home win over Vancouver on Tuesday.
“We’ve done a acceptable job the aftermost two games,” said Edmonton goaltender Devan Dubnyk, who has chock-full 66 of 67 shots the aftermost two games. “The allowance were ample appealing awful adjoin us. I don’t anticipate anybody absolutely gave us a chance. It would accept been accessible to sit aback and aloof accept that. It’s agitative that we said no way and went out there and did it.” Watch Live Online
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