BACK AT IT!

Talk about a 'member's bounce.'
The Flames prospects fell 4-3 to the Oilers prospects Saturday night at Rogers Place, the tying goal for the homeside coming courtesy of a seeing-eye deflection off a Calgary stick that went past goaltender Dustin Wolf.

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Calgary built up leads of 2-0 and 3-1 after 20 minutes of play, but Edmonton clawed back into the game and kept chipping away and after knotting it up on that play, got the winner in the third.
The Flames played a physical contest from the opening puck drop and pushed hard late but couldn't find a tying marker of their own.
The experience of getting the young players on the ice together, though, was invaluable.
Calgary's offence on the night came courtesy of goals from Walker Duehr, Ryan Francis and Martin Pospisil.
The vistors opened the scoring with Duehr's tally.
The Minnesota State University product - who played five games with the AHL's Stockton Heat last season - came off the bench and skated down mainstreet all alone, dropping to a knee to one-time a pass from Jakob Pelletier that Edmonton's Olivier Rodrigue managed to stop, but Duehr followed his rebound into the low slot and snapped it home under the glove of the Oilers 'tender just under five minutes into the tilt.
Connor Zary got the other helper.

The Flames made it 2-0 just a scant 21 seconds later when Duehr and Jeremie Poirier couldn't convert a 2-on-1 chance but Francis, who's looked great so far in this prospects camp, took the rebound and snapped it into an open net.

Click here to check out this feature on Francis at Flames.com

Wolf faced his first big test past the midway point of the opening frame on a shot from Henrik Rybinski, coming up with a great save off an Oilers rush.

Click here to check out this feature on Wolf at Flames.com

With 4:59 left in the first, Calgary's Rory Kerins was sent to the bin for gloving the puck off a draw. The Oilers got the puck moving on the man-up, getting a couple of quality chances before Rybinski tipped home a backdoor one-timer in tight off a pass from Yanni Kaldis.
The Flames went to the powerplay with just over two minutes to play when the Oilers got tagged for too many men on the ice.
They wasted little time converting, with Dmitry Zavgorodniy stepping into a big one-time blast from the left faceoff circle that Rodrigue stopped, but Pospisil was Johnny-on-the-spot to convert and restore the two-goal cushion before the end of the frame.

The Flames got another powerplay early in the second period but had a hard time getting pucks on net and not long after it expired, the Oilers struck on a PP of their own when Rybinski got his second of the net at the 6:34 mark.
As for the aforementioned yying goal, Phil Kemp fired a shot towards the net from a tough angle and it went off the stick of a lunging Johannes Kinnvall and up-and-over Wolf into the top right corner with 8:17 to go in the middle stanza.
Kemp got his second of the night to give the Oilers their first lead of the game less than five minutes into the third when he stepped into a rebound off the end boards that beat Wolf high short-side.

THEY SAID IT:

Duehr on his night:
"It was nice to get on the scoresheet there but there's definitely things I'd like to improve on. Just being able to be effective every shift ... make an impression and make an impact on the game there. That's kind of my focus here is making sure everytime I step on that ice here I make an impact."

Pospisil's take on the game:
"I think the first period was pretty good but then we maybe slowed down and we didn't have as much energy as the first period. We have to move forward and prepare for Monday."

Stockton Heat coach Mitch Love's thoughts:
"I liked our start. I thought we came out with a lot of energy. We really skated the game well, won a lot of puck battles and then it felt like that kind of got away from us, in a sense, where we maybe felt the game was going to be a litte too easy and they elevated their game, especially after the first period."

THE LINE-UP:

Here's who skated with who Saturday in Edmonton:
Forwards
Martin Pospisil - Connor Zary - Dmitry Zavgorodniy
Jakob Pelletier - Ryan Francis - Walker Duehr
Mathias Emilio Pettersen - Rory Kerins - Lucas Ciona
Cole Huckins - Ilya Nikolaev/Ben King - Reid Perepeluk
Defence
Ilya Solovyov - Johannes Kinnvall
Jeremie Poirier - Yan Kuznetsov
Cameron Whynot - Colton Poolman
Goaltender
Dustin Wolf

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These two squads meet again at the Scotiabank Saddledome Monday night at 6 p.m.