So much that was good about the Flames on this night came courtesy of the Lucic-Ryan-Dillon Dube trio, generating 13 of Calgary's 33 aggregate shots as well as the lion's share of Grade-A chances.
"I think the last two games we've managed to find some immediate chemistry between the three of us,'' acknowledged Lucic. "Especially for myself, it's easy to get frustrated but you've just got to keep playing, keep being hard on the puck, keep making plays and you know it's just a matter of time before they start going in for you."
Ryan agreed that the three of them are collaborating well at the moment.
"I thought we were good in Vegas. I thought we were good in Arizona. Dillon got called up and he's playing well. He's getting chances, we're getting chances and not giving up too many."
Trailing by three, the man they call Doc pumped fresh belief into gnawing doubt, accepting a nifty little off-the-wall pass from Lucic and snapping his fourth goal of the season overtop of Philipp Grubaur's glove at 17:41 of the second period.
Then, closing in on 16 minutes of the third period, when Andrew Mangiapane swatted home an Oliver Kylington point shot that hit him in the mid-section and dropped down at his feet, the game, as Sherlock Holmes is want to say, was well and truly afoot.