FLAMES FALL TO JETS

The Flames generated tons of chances and piled up plenty of shots for the second straight game in the rubber match of a three-game set with the visiting Winnipeg Jets.
What they couldn't get Monday night, though, were any breaks or bounces going their way.

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Elias Lindholm staked the Flames to a 1-0 lead but despite all their quality scoring opportunities, they fell 5-1 to the Jets.
They are now 3-4-1 this season vs. their Canadian cousins.
With the loss, Calgary is 16-18-3 this campaign, while Winnipeg improved to 22-12-2 in the Scotia North Division.
According to analytics website Natural Stat Trick, the Flames had a 19-15 edge in scoring chances, and a 7-6 advantage in high-danger scoring chances at 5-on-5.
Jacob Markstrom got the start, making 19 saves in two periods of work, replaced by David Rittich to start the third.
Connor Hellebuyck was between the pipes at the other end, turning aside 29 of the shots he faced.
Johnny Gaudreau danced around a few Jets to skate deep into the Winnipeg zone right off the hop, getting hooked by Andrew Copp just 33 seconds into the affair.
The Flames poured on the pressure on the powerplay, Gaudreau feeding often partner-in-crime Sean Monahan all alone in the slot, but Hellebuyck made the stop.
With time winding down, Gaudreau took a pass in the neutral zone and led an odd-man rush into the zone, passing cross ice to Matthew Tkachuk, who fed it right back through the blue paint to Lindholm for the tap into an open net with nine seconds left on the advantage.
It was Lindholm's ninth of the year.

Pierre-Luc Dubois hammered Chris Tanev head first into the end boards on a scary hit, the defenceman staying down and holding his helmet with the training staff coming out onto the ice. Noah Hanifin charged in to grab Dubois and when the dust settled, No. 55 was sent off for roughing and the Flames went on the PK, able to kill off the advantage.
Nate Thompson looked as if he kicked the puck into the net with 3:41 to go in the opening frame while battling with Rasmus Andersson near the crease, the official down in the corner signalling a goal.
The play was reviewed and the call upheld.
The Jets doubled their lead on a 2-on-1 with under two to go, Mark Scheifele converting a one-timer from Kyle Connor.
Calgary came out hard in the second with the first three shots, hemming Winnipeg in for a few icing calls in the opening minutes.
But Scheifele made it 3-1 on a 2-on-1 at 3:31 when Markstrom made a save on his first attempt, but he followed it and banged home the rebound amid a maze of bodies on the Calgary doorstep.
The Flames appeared to tie the game when Andersson wired a shot off a rebound but the official immediately waived it off, saying Milan Lucic had interfered with Hellebuyck.
Mathieu Perreault got sent off for boarding around the midway point of the frame giving the Flames their third powerplay of the contest. Despite spending most of the advantage in the Jets end they couldn't beat Hellebuyck.
Copp increased Winnipeg's lead to 4-1 when he finished off a three-way passing play at 14:30.
The Jets would round the scoring early in the third at 1:04 when Dubois beat Rittich.

THEY SAID IT:

Head coach Darryl Sutter on the loss:
"I thought we had a good start. Obviously, we score the powerplay goal early. I thought there was a little bit of sag in our game with the Thompson goal."

Brett Ritchie with his thoughts:
"I think they scored one or two and we just sort of quit checking"

THE LINEUP:

\ To start the game
Lines
Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - Brett Ritchie
Matthew Tkachuk - Elias Lindholm - Josh Leivo
Joakim Nordstrom - Mikael Backlund - Sam Bennett
Milan Lucic - Derek Ryan - Andrew Mangiapane
Pairings
Mark Giordano - Rasmus Andersson
Noah Hanifin - Chris Tanev
Nikita Nesterov - Michael Stone
Goaltender
Jacob Markstrom - starter*
David Rittich

UP NEXT:

The head to the West Coast for a tilt Wednesday night against the Canucks.