Justin Kirkland scored the decisive goal in the sixth round of the shootout Tuesday night as the red-hot Calgary Flames prevailed 4-3 over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
CALGARY, AB — Justin Kirkland scored the decisive goal in the sixth round of the shootout Tuesday night as the Calgary Flames prevailed 4-3 over the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Nazem Kadri, Rasmus Andersson and MacKenzie Weegar scored in regulation for Calgary.
Andersson also had an assist and leads the Flames in scoring with eight points (three goals, five assists).
Bryan Rust, Rickard Rakell and Noel Acciari scored for Pittsburgh, which opened a four-game Western Canada road trip.
Dustin Wolf, who was peppered with 38 shots, improves to 3-0-0. He clinched the win when he stopped Evgeni Malkin in Pittsburgh’s last hope in the shootout.
Alex Nedeljkovic made 22 saves.
Rakell and Rust scored in the shootout while Anthony Mantha, in his 500th NHL game, and Andersson had Calgary’s other goals.
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