Calgary Flames overtime win over Philadelphia Flyers, Digi Mart USA News (Calgary, Alberta): On the day the Flames learned they would be without one of their top defencemen for the rest of the season, Calgary refused to fold. The Flames received two goals from blueliners in the absence of Kevin Bahl and erased three separate one-goal deficits before Matt Coronato’s goal at 4:08 of overtime secured a 4-3 victory at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
Zayne Parekh, Zach Whitecloud and Joel Farabee scored the other Calgary goals, while Devin Cooley made his return to action with 32 saves as the Flames won at home for the sixth time in their last seven attempts.
Chances came at both ends of the rink during the more than four minutes of overtime, but it took a Coronato snapshot to end the game. After a pair of confident stops by Cooley, Coronato accepted a pass from Matvei Gridin on an odd-man rush, picked his spot and fired the puck past Dan Vladar’s blocker hand.
It was his eighth career game-winning goal and second career overtime goal, the other coming November 5, 2024, at Montreal.
Parekh earned the biggest crowd reaction of the night with a solo effort that tied the game 1-1 at the 15:26 mark of the first period. He carried the puck through the neutral zone, danced past two Flyers defenders to the left circle, pivoted and fired it into the top corner over Vladar’s glove hand for his second goal of the season.
Six of his eight points this season have come since October 24.
Early in the second period, Cooley made a key save on an odd-man rush by Philadelphia. Owen Tippett’s effort from the bottom of the right circle was stopped by Cooley, who was making his first appearance in the crease since being injured in Edmonton on October 28.
The save preserved a 2-1 Philadelphia lead for just over three minutes until Whitecloud scored the equalizer at 5:59 of the middle frame.
Whitecloud’s goal came after 48-and-a-half games without scoring for Calgary. Accepting a pass from Aydar Suniev at the right point, he stepped into a snapshot that beat Vladar cleanly to the blocker side from distance, tying the game 2-2.
Until Sunday, all 24 of his regular-season NHL goals had come with the Vegas Golden Knights.
Trailing 3-2 in the third period, the Flames were forced to kill a penalty after Suniev was whistled for a high stick on Tyson Foerster at the 6:43 mark. Calgary’s penalty kill held, and Martin Pospisil then poked a loose puck into open space at the Flames blue line, sending Farabee in alone on a shorthanded breakaway.
Farabee deked to his backhand and slipped the puck past Vladar for his team-leading seventh goal of the season and his first against his former Philadelphia teammates.
Yegor Sharangovich finished with two assists, and Farabee led the Flames with five shots on goal. Whitecloud logged the most ice time of any Calgary skater at 22:19.
The Flames have won 12 of their last 15 games against the Flyers dating back to the 2018-19 season. Calgary had 7 high-danger scoring chances at 5-on-5 to Philadelphia’s 14.
Calgary’s three-game homestand continues Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. MT against the New York Rangers.
