Sabre-Rattling!

Flames score 6-2 win in Buffalo to close two-game trip

By Ty Pilson

CalgaryFlames.com

November 20, 2025

BUFFALO – The Flames wanted to have a better start Wednesday night and they did just that.

Then they showed some resilience and had an offensive explosion, to boot, en route to a 6-2 victory over the Sabres at KeyBank Center.

Just 24 hours after falling 5-2 to the Blackhawks in Chicago, Calgary built a 2-0 lead after the first period before the homeside tied it with a pair in the second.

But the Flames put four straight away in the final frame to ice the victory with panache.

Joel Farabee – who hails from Cicero, N.Y. and had family and friends in attendance – scored a pair, while Rasmus Andersson, Morgan Frost, Mikael Backlund and Matt Coronato had singles.

Devin Cooley got the start in net and got his first victory as a Flame, making 29 saves in a standout performance.

Andersson scored for the second straight game and finished with a pair of helpers, as did Yegor Sharangovich, the second the 100^th of his career.

John Beecher – acquired on waivers from Boston on Tuesday – made his Flames debut, skating on a line with Sam Morton and Adam Klapka.

Beecher and Coronato – who both hail from New York like Farabee – also had family and friends in attendance.

Watch all the action from Wednesday's win over the Sabres

Netminder gets the honour after first win as a Flame

It was an eventful first period.

Frost was sent to the box for hooking 2:39 in, the Flames killing off the penalty on the heels of going four-for-four on the PK against Chicago.

They were a perfect three-for-three a man down against Buffalo.

Kadri had a team-high five shots in the opening stanza, getting a great look after a turnover in the Buffalo zone that Colten Ellis stopped but the Flames centre’s hard work would lead to the opening goal.

He won a puck battle on the halfboards and made a no-look pass behind him to Kevin Bahl, who rifled a point shot, Sharangovich getting a stick on the rebound and the puck bouncing to Andersson who snuck in backdoor from the point and put it home at 5:58.

Andersson opens the scoring in Buffalo with a rebound tally

No. 91 unloaded another shot off a rush and Ellis gave up a massive rebound that was just out of the reach of Farabee.

But minutes later they would make good.

Kadri gained the zone, feed Sharangovich who feathered a beautiful pass back to Kadri behind net and he put it out front to Farabee who tipped it in at 12:04.

Farabee cashes in after nifty feed from Kadri

The homeside looked to have gotten on the board when captain Rasmus Dahlin snapped a shot high shortside past Cooley, but Calgary called a timeout and then challenged for goalie interference, arguing Tage Thompson had impeded the Calgary ‘tender.

They lost a goalie interference challenge Tuesday in Chicago, but the officials agreed with this one and overturned it.

Coronato, who scored against the 'Hawks, tried to wrap a puck around Ellis in the second period when he got the biscuit in Buffalo’s zone after Connor Timmins blew a wheel but put it wide.

Cooley made his biggest save of the game later in the period when he denied Okotoks product Peyton Krebs’ one-timer from in tight.

Buffalo would get on the board at 10:21 of the period when Mattias Samuelsson snapped a wrister past Cooley.

Thompson would tie the game with a slapshot from the point at 15:57.

Then came the run in the final frame.

Frost scored 2:02 into the third, taking a lovely cross-crease feed from Jonathan Huberdeau, tapping it in.

Frost converts on nifty feed from Huberdeau

Andersson hammered a shot after a great forecheck by the Flames – Blake Coleman knocking a puck out the air – with Backlund putting the rebound in amid some bodies at 7:34.