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Josh Jooris scores overtime winner as Calgary Flames edge Edmonton Oilers 4-3

Thursday, 01.01.2015 / 12:35 AM / News

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Josh Jooris scores overtime winner as Calgary Flames edge Edmonton Oilers 4-3

CALGARY - Josh Jooris scored at 1:08 of overtime to lead the Calgary Flames to a wild 4-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.

Jooris, who missed the past three games with an upper-body injury, took a pass from Jiri Hudler and wired a shot into the top corner, glove side behind Edmonton goalie Ben Scrivens.

Joe Colborne scored his second and third goals of the season — all against the Oilers — for the Flames (21-15-3), while Lance Bouma also scored. Sean Monahan and Curtis Glencross chipped in with two assists each.

Making his sixth consecutive start in net for the Flames, goalie Jonas Hiller made 17 saves to improve his record to 13-10-2.

Matt Fraser, Jordan Eberle and Andrew Ference scored for the Oilers (8-22-8), while goalie Ben Scrivens stopped 24-of-28 shots he faced in a losing cause.

Hiller had to be sharp early as he made a chest save to turn aside an Eberle shot following an odd-man rush by the Oilers that resulted from a turnover by T.J. Brodie.

The Flames didn't register their first shot on net until Brandon Bollig tipped the puck 6:37 into the first period. Calgary then built up a 5-1 advantage in shots, but couldn't get any pucks past Scrivens, who made 39 saves one night earlier to backstop the Oilers to a 3-2 shootout win over the L.A. Kings in Edmonton.

Edmonton opened the scoring with a power-play goal by Fraser, who was claimed off waivers from the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, at 16:06 of the first. Hiller stopped the initial shot by David Perron before Fraser adeptly picked up the puck behind the net before banking it off the Calgary goalie and in.

The Flames then had a great chance to even the score after Edmonton defenceman Keith Aulie was assessed a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct for a hit to the head on Matt Stajan with 54.2 seconds left in the first period.

Scrivens stopped a slap shot fired his way by Mark Giordano and then the rebound attempt by Glencross as time expired in the first. Early in the second on the same power play, Colborne tipped a Dennis Wideman's point shot past Scrivens, but the Edmonton goalie recovered in time to smother the puck with his glove before it crossed the goal-line.

Eberle gave the Oilers a 2-0 lead at 10:28 of the second when he took a feed from Leon Draisaitl in the slot and lifted a shot over Hiller's blocker and into the Calgary net.

Colborne pulled the Flames within a goal with a power-play marker at 18:01 of the second when he converted a feed from Monahan.

Bouma tied things up at 4:28 of the third when he backhanded a shot from the slot past Scrivens, who stopped the initial shot taken by Paul Byron.

Ference then regained the lead for the Oilers when he took a pass from Draisaitl and blasted a low shot from the point past Hiller.

The see-saw battle continued when Colborne drove to the net and shovelled a shot through Scrivens' legs at 11:55 of the third.

Notes: Calgary now has an all-time record of 17-8-3 on games played on New Year's Eve. … The Flames improved to 8-11-1 when trailing after two periods. Mason Raymond was a healthy scratch after failing to record a point in his past 13 games with the Flames.

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