Gaudreau scores two as Flames burn Wings
CALGARY, Alberta -- Johnny Gaudreau had two goals and a memorable assist to lead the Calgary Flames past the road-weary Detroit Red Wings 6-3 on Thursday.
Gaudreau set up Jaromir Jagr's first goal as a Flame, which was the 766th of the 45-year-old's 24-year NHL career. Gaudreau's second goal of the game was his 79th career goal and came into an empty net with 2:23 remaining.
Mark Jankowski, Micheal Ferland and Matthew Tkachuk also scored for Calgary (9-7-0), which won for the fourth time in five games, all on home ice.
Anthony Mantha had a goal and two assists for the Red Wings and set up both Martin Frk and Frans Nielsen with nice passes during Detroit's three-goal second period.
Detroit (8-8-1) wrapped up a four-game cross-Canada road trip in which they won three of four games.
Gaudreau and Jagr combined on a two-on-one. Gaudreau fed Jagr cross-ice and he flipped over Detroit goalie Petr Mrazek with 2:59 remaining in the second to give Calgary a 5-2 lead.
Mike Smith, making his 15th start this season, had 39 saves, including 21 in the second period. Mrazek had 26 stops.
Jagr, playing for his ninth NHL team, picked up his 1,151st NHL assist on Jankowski's accidental first NHL goal at 9:15 of the first. Jagr got a shot off and the rebound hit the charging rookie in the crotch area and bounced into the net.
Gaudreau made it 2-0 at 13:56. He scooped up the puck after the face-off and put a wrist shot from the top of the slot past Mrazek's glove. The goal extended Gaudreau's point streak to six games.
Ferland took a pass at the Detroit blueline, made two nice moves and scored on a deke at 6:02 of the second. Frk replied on the power play at 8:43 with his third goal in as many games, taking a pass across the crease from Mantha and scoring into a vacant net.
Tkachuk batted a waist-high shot from the point into the net at 12:23.
Mantha snapped home a long rebound 3.3 seconds before the second intermission to make it 5-3. Mantha has six points in his past six games.
NOTES: Flames put D Rasmus Andersson into the lineup in place of D Matt Bartkowski. It was Andersson's first game of the season and second career after he dressed once previously for on April 8, 2016. ... Flames D Travis Hamonic skated Thursday morning but sat out his third-straight game with a lower-body injury. Freddie Hamilton and Matt Stajan, both centers, were healthy scratches for Calgary. ... Red Wings C Scott Wilson played though he aggravated a lower-body injury Monday in Vancouver. He was a game-time decision by coach Jeff Blashill. ... Healthy scratches for Detroit were LW David Booth, RW Luke Witkowski and D Danny DeKeyser.