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The streak has come to an end.
The Flames had gone 13 home games without a loss in regulation, but fell 5-4 to the Capitals Tuesday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

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Elias Lindholm had a pair of goals, while Adam Ruzicka and Oliver Kylington also scored for the Flames. Dan Vladar - coming off a 33-save performance in a 4-3 overtime victory over the Avalanche in Denver on Saturday - made 23 saves.
Lindholm's second marker came with 40 seconds left to play and Vladar pulled, Calgary trailing by two before the tally.
The Caps scored three in the third period to secure the win, with Alex Ovechkin scoring a pair of goals - including an empty-netter prior to Lindholm's score - and is now tied with Jaromir Jagr for third all time in NHL scoring.
Vitek Vanecek had 31 stops for the visitors.
Flames forward Mikael Backlund skated in his 800th game Tuesday, becoming the fifth player in Flames franchise history to hit that mark all with the team. Backlund is now four games away from passing Al MacInnis (803 games players).
The Flames went to the powerplay 32 seconds into the tilt but weren't able to get a shot on Vanecek.
Vladar made his first big stop just before the three-minute mark, slamming the pads shut as Anthony Mantha tried to tip one home at full speed right in the blue paint.
Andrew Mangiapane banked a pass off the boards to send Dillon Dube in on a breakaway but Vanecek closed the wickets on his five-hole backhand attempt.
Mangiapane appeared to open the scoring just over six minutes in but Washington challenged saying the play was offside. After review, the puck appeared to just edge over the blueline before Nikita Zadorov could fire it back in leading to Mangiapane's shot. The officials overturned the goal.
The Flames did eventually strike first at 9:40 just after a Calgary penalty had expired, Johnny Gaudreau passing to Lindholm on a 2-on-1 and the centre snapping it home for his 28th of the campaign.
Lindholm now has 15 goals in his last 15 games.
You'll remember he had a hat-trick in the Flames 4-3 overtime victory against the Caps back on Oct. 23 in Washington.

Mantha had a golden chance to tie it up when Vladar went to play the puck behind the net and it hopped out front but bounced over Mantha's stick as he stared at a yawning cage.
The Flames doubled the lead at 8:54 of the second. The play started when Dube fired a cross-ice pass to Mangiapane, who made a backhand pass between the legs of Nick Jensen as he fell, putting it right on the tape of Ruzicka for an easy wrister.

Conor Sheary trimmed the lead quickly after, scoring at 10:27. Vladar made a huge stop on Lars Eller but Sheary got the rebound and put it home.
Ovechkin tied it up three minutes later after a turnover in the Calgary zone, firing home his 35th of the campaign.
Kylington stepped into a slapshot from the point that found its way through the bodies and past Vanecek at 3:45. The blueliner threw his hands in the air in an emphatic celebration.

The Caps came back and tied it up again, Mantha putting one shortside over Vladar's shoulder at 8:21.
Vladar made a pair of massive stops on an ensuing Caps powerplay, the best a lunging stop on an Ovechkin one-timer from his office in the left faceoff circle.
But just after the penalty expired, Nic Dowd skated across the high slot and put one farside to give Washington it's first lead of the night, followed by Ovechkin's empty-netter and Lindholm's marker.

BY THE NUMBERS:

Shots: CGY 35, WSH 27
Powerplay:CGY 0-1, WSH 0-3
Hits:CGY 12, WSH 21
Face-offs: CGY 54%, WSH 46%
\Scoring chances: CGY 26 , WSH 24
\High-danger scoring chances:CGY 12, WSH 5
\According of Natural Stat Trick (5-on-5)*

ONE-TIMERS:

It was an important night as the Flames recognized International Women's Day. See videos below ... Johnny Gaudreau now has 14 points (1G, 13A) in 14 career meetings against the Washington Capitals ... The Flames are 8-2-0 in the first game of a back-to-back set this season and 6-3-1 in the second game, sweeping their last two back-to-backs with wins over Vegas and Toronto on Feb. 9-10 and Columbus and Anaheim on Feb. 15-16 ... Rasmus Andersson is seven points away from 100 in his career ... Meanwhile, Erik Gudbranson is 10 away from 100 ... Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom played their 1,000th game together in the victory ... The Flames are now 11-2-2 against Metropolitan Division opponents this season and 17-7-4 against Eastern Conference opponents.

THEY SAID IT:

OLIVER KYLINGTON ON DIFFERENCE IN THE GAME:
"It's hard to say right now. Trying to evaluate the game right now, it's hard. But they capitalized on their chances and maybe we gave them some looks that they have the firepower to score on. We had looks as well, but we have to be tighter against a team like that and capitalize on our chances and really play with the lead.
"Those are the ups and downs during a game. Giving a team like this a lot of looks, they'll capitalize and they did. We weren't sharp enough during the 60 minutes, I think, and yeah, we have to have a better game on Thursday."
DAN VLADAR ON HARD-FOUGHT GAME:
"We lost, right? Can't be really positive. Another day tomorrow, sun's going to come up, got to get better tomorrow.
"Obviously, they have a lot of power especially at forward, so I kind of saw it coming."
DARRYL SUTTER ON HOW IT PLAYED OUT:
"I thought we hung around and needed a couple saves, needed to bury a couple chances. There were some Grade-A's that we had to get a two-goal cushion at some point. I think their depth showed up a little stronger than ours. We did what we wanted to do - try to come out in the third and split some minutes up, get three or four minutes out of everybody. Didn't like a couple of the goals, though."

THE LINEUP:

Lines
Johnny Gaudreau - Elias Lindholm - Matthew Tkachuk
Blake Coleman - Mikael Backlund - Tyler Toffoli
Andrew Mangiapane - Adam Ruzicka - Dillon Dube
Milan Lucic - Sean Monahan - Trevor Lewis
Pairings
Oliver Kylington - Chris Tanev
Noah Hanifin - Rasmus Andersson
Nikita Zadorov - Erik Gudbranson
Goaltender
Dan Vladar - starter
Jacob Markstrom

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