DUE-ING IT RIGHT!

ST. LOUIS - Incredibly, it was actually the second 2-on-1 of the period for the gritty Flames call-up.
Walker Duehr was turned aside the first time.
He wouldn't allow it a second.
From the media's vantage point in the press box, you didn't know whether to watch No. 71 lean into that wrister from the right circle, or look back on the opposite side of the ice, where his nine biggest fans remained after catching his season debut the other night.
Most of the building fell silent, but for Section 124, where the boisterous cheers could be heard from more than 100 feet up.
Sure makes the nine-hour drive through the American Midwest worth it, doesn't it?

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"From going from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and then he left and went through so many different teams, and then for him to have the opportunity - finally - in the NHL, it's just unreal," Duehr's mother, Victoria, told FlamesTV on Tuesday.
"There's a lot people in the hockey community that known about Walker and I think they're pretty proud and pretty happy," added his father, Neil. "He's a role model for a lot of kids in South Dakota that this is doable.
"You've just got to keep working.
Last year, Duehr became the first-ever player from South Dakota to skate in the NHL.
Now, he's the first-ever to score in the NHL, too.
With 4:36 left in the second period of a scorelessgame, Duehr took a pass from St. Louis super-villain Nazem Kadri and buried it blocker-side on Thomas Greiss to give the Flames an all-important 1-0 lead.
The Flames went on to beat the Blues 4-1, with Dillon Dube scoring twice after surviving a bit of a scare.
Dan Vladar made 25 stops in the victory.
"I think I blacked out," Duehr laughed about the moment afterward, where he was hit my Blues defenceman Calle Rosen mid-celebration. "It was a pretty cool feeling and something you dream of, so it was pretty cool.
"I'm sure they (South Dakoan kids) see me doing it, it probably puts the belief in their head. Which it should. Anybody who puts their head down and goes to work can achieve pretty great things. Hopefully they can look at it and dream big."
Calgary native Jake Neighbours made it a 1-1 game only 21 seconds into the third, unleashing a sharp-angle shot that beat Vladar over the left shoulder.
Dube scored off a beautiful play from Lindholm, who poked a small-area pass into the slot after Tyler Toffoli forced a turnover, putting the visitors up 2-1 at 10:50. Blake Coleman added another with a spin-around backhand through the wickets, before Dube rounded out the scoring with an empty-netter at 16:39.
With the win, Calgary's record improves to 20-14-9.
"We played a full 60," Dube said. "They had their push and it was good for us to get one back and keep going from there. At 2-1, it's easy to just defend. But I think we kept to it, stuck to the way we needed to play and Colesy got the most important goal for us, so it was huge.
"We learned from the game before. There's going to be some swings, for sure, and to be able to get a couple right back early was really good for us."

The goaltenders put on quite a show in the first period, with Vladar the far less busy of the two in terms of volume, but the quality of his work was fantastic, to say the least. His best stop came near the 13-minute mark when Brandon Saad corralled a bouncing puck, split the D and broke in alone. With MacKenzie Weegar in chase, Saad looked to bury it five-hole with a snapper from the hashmarks, but Vladar slammed the wickets closed to keep it a 0-0 game.
With 2:31 left in the period, Brayden Schenn slipped in behind the defence and cut hard to the pain from the right wing, but again, Vladar kicked the pillows and kept the Blues off the board.
Rasmus Andersson was whistled for holding on the play, but the Flames were able to kill off the penalty - their second of the frame.
At the other end, Thomas Greiss was up to the challenge with the Flames firing 16 first-period shots. The line of Mikael Backlund, Andrew Mangiapane and Blake Coleman went to work on the forecheck near the midway mark of the frame, and after a Coleman try was turned aside on the far side, the puck popped loose to Noah Hanifin at the left circle, who had a point-blank look from outside the hash. Greiss, though, swallowed it up, thwarting the Flames' best opportunity of the period.
Shots on goal favoured the Flames 16-12 after one.
With all the chatter over the past 48 hours on how the Flames would contain the line of Robert Thomas, Jordan Kyrou and Pavel Buchnevich, the early returns were positive.
That trio played just over four minutes together at 5-on-5, and with Elias Lindholm, Dillon Dube and Tyler Toffoli, along with Noah Hanifin and Rasmus Andersson getting the 'shutdown' assignment, it was all Calgary.
The Blues were absolutely buried with that group on the ice, recording a measly 10% possession rate (1-9), while surrendering the only four scoring chances and two high-danger looks.
In other words: It was a great start for the road team certainly set the table for what was a splendid defensive effort.

THEY SAID IT:

BY THE NUMBERS:

Shots: CGY 40 - STL 26
Powerplay: CGY 0-for-1 - STL 0-for-3
Hits: CGY 27 - STL 25
Faceoffs: CGY 50% - STL 50%
\Scoring chances: CGY 29 - STL 19
\High-danger scoring chances: CGY 13 - STL 5
*Courtesy of Natural Stat Trick (5-on-5)

THE LINEUP:

FORWARDS
Dillon Dube - Elias Lindholm - Tyler Toffoli
Milan Lucic - Nazem Kadri - Jonathan Huberdeau
Andrew Mangiapane - Mikael Backlund - Blake Coleman
Trevor Lewis - Adam Ruzicka - Walker Duehr
DEFENCE
Noah Hanifin - Rasmus Andersson
MacKenzie Weegar - Chris Tanev
Nikita Zadorov - Michael Stone
GOALTENDERS
Dan Vladar - Starter
Jacob Markstrom

UP NEXT:

The Flames will now head off to Dallas to face the Stars at the American Airlines Center for the first time since Game 6 of the First Round last spring. Is a rare matinee tilt (12 p.m. MT) on Saturday, so adjust your schedules accordingly. Following that, the Flames will visit the Predators on Monday in Nashville to wrap up this five-game road trip.