Flames Torch the Jets to Advance

 

The Calgary Flames look to win the series 3-1 after the Flames won Game 3 6-2 Tuesday evening.  The Winnipeg Jets look to tie the series with a potential win-or-go home scenario for Game 5 Saturday.
Calgary Flames Projected Lines and Defenceman Pairings

Johnny Gaudreau		Sean Monahan		Elias Lindholm
Andrew Mangiapane		Mikael Backlund		Matthew Tkachuk
Milan Lucic		Sam Bennett		Dillon Dube
Mark Jankowski		Derek Ryan		Tobias Rieder
	Mark Giordano		TJ Brodie
	Noah Hanifin		Rasmus Andersson
	Derek Forbort		Erik Gustafsson
		Cam Talbot
		David Rittich

Unfit to Play: None

Scratched:

Austin Czarnik	Byron Froese	Alan Quine	Zac Rinaldo	Buddy Robinson
Oliver Kylington	Michael Stone	Juuso Valimaki	Alexander Yelesin	Jon Gillies
Artyom Zagidulin

Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines and Defenceman Pairings:

Kyle Connor		Blake Wheeler		Nikolaj Ehlers
Jansen Harkins		Cody Eakin		Mathieu Perreault
Andrew Copp		Adam Lowry		Jack Roslovic
Gabriel Bourque		Nicholas Shore		Logan Shaw
	Josh Morrissey		Dylan DeMelo
	Dmitry Kulikov		Neal Pionk
	Nathan Beaulieu		Tucker Poolman
		Connor Hellebuyck
		Laurent Brossoit

Unfit to Play:

Bryan Little

Mark Scheifele

Patrik Laine

Mason Appleton

Scratched:

David Gustafsson	Anthony Bitetto	Carl Dahlstrom	Mark Letestu	Sami Niku
Luca Sbisa	Mikhail Berdin	Eric Comrie

1st Period Summary and Analysis:

Right at the faceoff a fight would break out between Calgary’s Milan Lucic and Winnipeg’s Nathan Beaulieu at the :02 mark.  Dillon Dube would score his first goal of the postseason at the 3:21 mark, assisted by Erik Gustafsson and Sean Monahan, their third and fourth assists respectively.

Calgary’s Matthew Tkachuk would had down the tunnel for a bit of maintenance after taking an awkward puck shot at the 12:15 mark in the period but would return for his next shift so things look to be fine for Tkachuk.

Calgary would have made it a 2-0 contest had a Monahan shot not gone off the goalpost and gained possession for the Jets.  At 15:45, Tkachuk would have a great deflection to avoid a tie game at 1-1, with puck possession being on their blue line.

The first few minutes in the period were quite eventful but after things settled down, the Flames would score with 00.7 left to head to the first intermission leading 2-0.

 

1st Period Results:

CGY Pen	Milan Lucic	for	Fighting	5 min major	0:02
WPG Pen	Nathan Beaulieu	for	Fighting	5 min major	0:02
CGY Goal	Dillon Dube (1)	Assisted by:	Erik Gustafsson (3)	Sean Monahan (4)	3:21
CGY Goal	Sam Bennett (2)	Assisted by:	Noah Hanifin (2)	Matthew Tkachuk (1)	19:59

 

1st Period Stats:

	Calgary	Winnipeg
Faceoffs	10/20	10/20
Power Play	0/0	0/0
Shots	8	11
Hits	9	17

 

2nd Period Summary and Analysis:

Things are far more calm to start of the period, despite having a few faceoffs in the first two minutes of the period.

Calgary would go on their first Power Play of the game after a penalty is called on the Jets’ Jansen Harkins at 3:54 for boarding.  Midway through the period, the play is still going well as Winnipeg is still battling to get enough puck possession so they can get on the board.   However, the Flames are all over Winnipeg.  The Jets aren’t able to get the puck around to the players on the ice.

Winnipeg gets the chance to get on the board at 8:14 but Calgary skates up the ice to stop Jack Roslovic from scoring.

Jets goaltender Connor Hellebuyck prevents Calgary from making the contest 3-0 at the 4:40 mark after two shots in front of the crease, stopping Dube from having his second goal of the evening.

Clearly there is frustration as well as desperation showing from the Jets as everything they are trying to get in the net is not going their way.  Going into the second intermission, they will all need to get on the same page if they expect to get pucks in the net and advance to a Game 5 or their season will come to a close.

2nd Period Results:

WPG Pen

Jansen Harkins

for

Boarding

2 min minor

2nd Period Stats:

	Calgary	Winnipeg
Faceoffs	23/46	23/46
Power Play	0/1	0/0
Shots	27	19
Hits	22	27

3rd Period Summary and Analysis:

Winnipeg’s Nikolaj Ehlers tries to get the Jets on the board again with a nice breakaway attempt but the shot ends up a few feet above the the net.  Winnipeg will end up on the penalty kill when Dmitry Kulikov is called for a high stick on the Flames Tkachuk at the 1:26 mark in the period.  Kulikov will return to the penalty box after he is called on an interference penalty at the 4:20 mark.

Winnipeg goes on their first power play of the contest when Calgary’s Rasmus Andersson is whistled for a tripping penalty at the 6:49 mark.

At 11:07, the Flames are yet again called for a Tripping penalty with TJ Brodie shown the penalty box for the infraction.

Winnipeg, with five minutes left in the game, is still looking to fight their way to get a goal.  Winnipeg is definitely hurting after not having Patrik Laine as well as Mark Scheifele the last two contests.  Winnipeg goes with the extra attacker on the ice just a minute later to get on the board however that is unable to work right away.   Calgary scores the empty net goal a minute later at 16:59, with the goal going to Sean Monahan.  19 seconds later, Rasmus Andersson would score his first goal of the postseason, another empty net goal, giving Calgary a 4-0 lead and win over the Jets.

3rd Period Results:

WPG Pen	Dmitry Kulikov	for	High-sticking	2 min minor	1:26
WPG Pen	Dmitry Kulikov	for	Interference	2 min minor	4:20
CGY Pen	Rasmus Andersson	for	Tripping	2 min minor	6:49
CGY Pen	TJ Brodie	for	Tripping	2 min minor	11:07
CGY ENG	Sean Monahan	Assisted by	Tobias Rieder (1)	Derek Ryan (1)	16:59
CGY ENG	Rasmus Andersson	Assisted by	Milan Lucic (3)	Sam Bennett (1)	17:18

3rd Period Stats:

	Calgary	Winnipeg
Faceoffs	33/70	37/70
Power Play	0/3	0/2
Shots	34	31
Hits	31	35

Up Next:

Calgary: qualifies for the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs with the opponent TBD

Winnipeg:  2020-21 Season