Flames win shootout over Devils
CALGARY, Alberta -- Sean Monahan and Matthew Tkachuk scored in a shootout to give the Calgary Flames a 5-4 win over the New Jersey Devils on Sunday.
Drew Stafford replied in the shootout for the Devils.
Monahan, Michael Frolik, Michael Stone and Micheal Ferland got Calgary's regulation-time goals.
Taylor Hall, Ben Lovejoy, Brian Gibbons and Andy Greene scored for New Jersey in regulation.
The Flames (8-6-0) have won three straight to start a seven-game homestand.
The Devils (9-3-1) have lost two straight for the first time this season. They began a three-game Western Canadian road trip with a win in Vancouver on Wednesday but fell 6-3 in Edmonton on Friday.
Mike Smith, who has started 13 of Calgary's 14 games, made 26 saves and won despite surrendering more than two goals for first time in five outings.
Keith Kinkaid had 30 stops for the Devils. Regular starter Cory Schneider was given the night off, allowing Kinkaid his fourth start of the season.
The Devils missed a big chance late in the game. Miles Wood put a backhand wide of the net on a penalty shot with 6:06 remaining in the third period. He was grabbed by Matt Bartkowski on a breakaway.
Ferland put the Flames ahead at 7:54 of the third when he took a pass from Johnny Gaudreau inside the New Jersey blue line went into alone on Kincaid and put a wrist shot inside the post to his stick side.
Ferland had been stopped by Kincaid on a penalty shot in the first period.
Greene's first goal of the season tied the game 4-4 with 8:49 remaining. It was a soft wrist shot from the boards that Smith should have caught.
Hall opened the scoring at 1:34 of the first period when he was the beneficiary of a juicy rebound on a two-on-one with Nico Hischier, who beat Flames captain Mark Giordano at the blue line and hit Smith in the pads.
The goal gave Hall at least a point in five straight games -- four goals and four assists during the span.
Less than 10 minutes later, Calgary's Mikael Backlund beat Will Butcher to the puck, then slid it out to trailing Frolik, who popped in the tying goal while the Flames were short-handed at 11:07.
The Flames had a chance to take the lead but Kinkaid stopped Ferland with a pad on a penalty shot at 13:15 of the first. Ferland had been chopped down on a breakaway by Stefan Noesen.
Lovejoy, a defenseman, scored for the first time in 62 games (since Dec. 6, 2016), when he joined a rush and put in a rebound off Hischier's shot 1:56 into the second period.
Stone tied it at 11:11 with a shot through traffic from the right point.
The teams traded goal 10 seconds apart when Monahan picked the corner with a wrist shot from the slot at 12:27 and Gibbons found a vacated net from the far boards while Smith was late returning to the crease after leaving his post to ring the puck around the boards.
NOTES: The Flames placed D Travis Hamonic on injured reserve Sunday with an undisclosed lower-body injury sustained in practice on Thursday. They summoned D Rasmus Andersson from Stockton of the AHL, but he didn't play Sunday. ... Flames LW Jaromir Jag missed his sixth straight game due to a groin injury . ... The Devils did not dress D Steven Santini because of an upper-body injury, and fellow D Marcus Johansson was out again because of a concussion sustained Wednesday in Vancouver. New Jersey's lone healthy scratch was D Dalton Prout. LW Tanner Glass and C Freddie Hamilton were Calgary's extra bodies.