Shaw goal lifts Ducks past Flames
CALGARY, Alberta -- Logan Shaw's third goal of the season with 3:06 remaining Sunday lifted the Anaheim Ducks to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames as the NHL races toward the end of the regular season.
The Ducks (43-23-13) moved two points ahead of the Edmonton Oilers (44-25-9) into first place in the Pacific Division, but Anaheim has three games remaining while Edmonton has four games left.
The Flames (44-31-4) remain one point ahead of the Nashville Predators in the wild-card race. The Flames occupy the first wild-card spot, and the Predators sit in the eighth spot. Both have three games left in the regular season.
Shaw banged in a rebound on a two-on-one with Ryan Kesler, who had three assists. Patrick Eaves, Jakob Silfverberg and Korbinian Holzer got the other Anaheim goals.
Kris Versteeg, with two second-period power-play goals, and Michael Frolik also scored for Calgary. Frolik's deflection tied the game at three 5:46 into the third period.
Eaves got his seventh goal in eight games and 30th for the season to open the scoring on the power play at 11:32 when he dug the puck free from a scramble and had an empty net. Silfverberg took a pass from Kesler and beat Brian Elliott with a snapshot from the left faceoff circle with 57 seconds remaining in the first period.
Versteeg picked the top corner on Jonathan Bernier with a wrist shot from the faceoff circle on the power play at 3:48 of the second. Versteeg then tied the game at 10:01 during a two-man advantage, when he snuck out from the corner and picked the far corner.
Holzer got the lead back for Anaheim with 2:07 remaining in the second period. He snuck in from the point, took a cross-ice pass from Ryan Getzlaf and snapped a shot over Elliott's glove.
NOTES: The Ducks were without defensemen Sami Vatanen and Hampus Lindholm due to an undisclosed upper body injuries. Anaheim recalled D Shea Theodore from the San Diego Gulls of the America Hockey League to fill the void. ... D Clayton Stoner rejoined the Ducks after a three-game rehabilitation stint in San Diego but remains on injured reserve. He sustained an abdominal injury in November. ... RW Jared Boll was Anaheim's lone healthy scratch. ... Calgary's healthy scratches were C Curtis Lazar, C Freddie Hamilton, D Dennis Wideman and D Rasmus Andersson. ... Flames LW Johnny Gaudreau, who had an assist Sunday, is the fourth player in Calgary franchise history to reach 60 points in each of his first three seasons in the league. Tom Lysiak, Joe Nieuwendyk and Sergei Makarov were the others.