Flames 4, Jets 1
CALGARY, Alberta -- Michael Frolik had a goal and two assists to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Wednesday.
Frolik's linemates also had good games as Joe Colborne scored once and set up another, while
Mikael Backlund chipped in with a pair of assists.
With his two points, Backlund now has 39 this season to equal his career-high output that he set back in 2013-14.
Meanwhile, Colborne now has 30 points this season to break his previous career high of 28 that he recorded in each of the past two campaigns with the Flames.
Sean Monahan and Mark Giordano also scored for the Flames (30-35-5), who won two straight games and three of their past four.
Drew Stafford scored for the Jets (29-36-5), who were attempting to win three straight games for just the first time this season.
Making his fifth straight start in net for the Flames, Joni Ortio stopped 28 shots to improve his record to 4-7-3.
Winnipeg goaltender Ondrej Pavelec turned aside 17 of 21 shots he faced.
While the Jets head home to Winnipeg to start a stretch of four straight games at home when they host the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday, the Flames will wrap up six-game homestand the same night against the Colorado Avalanche.
Down by two after two periods, the Jets pressed hard in the final frame in which they outshot the Flames 10-4.
But it was Giordano who put the game away with a power-play goal with 3.8 seconds remaining in regulation.
The Jets thought they took a 1-0 lead at 2:48 of the first period on a goal by Alexander Burmistrov, but it was waved off because Marko Dano made incidental contact with Ortio before the puck crossed the line.
Instead, Colborne gave the Flames a 1-0 lead at 5:38 when he banked the puck off Pavelec's stick and into the Winnipeg goal. Pavelec earlier dropped his stick, and it was lying in the crease when Colborne attempted to pass out front to Backlund.
The Flames extended their lead to 2-0 at 12:48 when Frolik scored. Backlund attempted to one-time a drop pass from Colborne, but he fanned on it and the puck went right to Frolik, who redirected it past Pavelec.
Monahan put the Flames up 3-0 with 1:40 to play before the first intermission when he took a pass from Giordano in the slot and fired a shot past Pavelec.
The Jets outshot the Flames 10-8 in the second period and were rewarded when Stafford one-timed a pass from Blake Wheeler into the Calgary net. Ortio had to scramble to even get back into his crease after Wheeler stole the puck from him behind the net.
NOTES: Jets D Dustin Byfuglien returned to the lineup after missing Winnipeg's 5-2 road win over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday with the flu. ... D Julian Melchiori, who was called up by the Jets from the AHL Manitoba to fill in for Byfuglien on Monday, was scratched along with injured RW Anthony Peluso (upper body), C Bryan Little (neck), LW Nikolaj Ehlers (eye) and RW Joel Armia (lower body). ... For the Flames, D T.J. Brodie and C Sam Bennett both missed their third straight games with upper-body injuries. ... The Flames also scratched LW Kenny Agostino and G Niklas Backstrom, who has yet to play since being acquired from the Minnesota Wild at the trade deadline on Feb. 29. ... The Flames recalled C Freddie Hamilton on an emergency basis on Wednesday from AHL Stockton. He drew into the starting lineup for the Flames, as did his younger brother, D Dougie Hamilton.