After sliding a shot under goalie Dustin Wolf’s pad, Poehling crashed hard into the net and stayed down before being helped off the ice.
Poehling also had an assist for the Ducks (4-1-0), who won their second straight game. Jackson LaCombe, Frank Vatrano and Nikita Nesterenko also scored, and Ville Husso made 27 saves in his first start of the season.
Aydar Suniev scored his first NHL goal for the Flames (0-5-0), who are the only team in the NHL without a point this season. Matt Coronato had two assists, and Wolf made 24 saves.
LaCombe scored on the power play at 10:02 of the first period to put the Ducks up 1-0. After Judd Caulfield fanned on a pass from Leo Carlsson, the puck went right to LaCombe, who lifted a shot over Wolf’s blocker.
Mikael Granlund also had an assist as both he and LaCombe extended their season-opening point streaks to five games. Granlund has six points (two goals, four assists) in his point streak, and LaCombe has five points (one goal, four assists) during his run.
Morgan Frost countered with his second goal of the season at 15:03 to pull the Flames into a 1-1 tie. He skated in behind LaCombe and took a pass from Coronato before tucking a shot past Husso’s right pad inside the far post.
Vatrano scored at 19:15 to put Anaheim back up 2-1. After Poehling redirected Noah Warren’s point shot, the puck went in off Vatrano, who was battling for position in front of the net with Flames defenseman Jake Middleton.
An apparent goal by Flames defenseman Yan Kuznetsov was waved off at 11:27 of the second period after Anaheim challenged and video review determined that forward Joel Farabee was offside on the play.
Suniev took a pass from behind the net from Coronato and squeezed a sharp-angle shot to the short side past Husso at 17:54 to make the score 2-2.
Nesterenko swatted a goal-mouth scramble past Wolf at 17:03 of the third period for the 4-2 final.
Anaheim forward Cutter Gauthier played just five shifts in the first period and didn’t return to the game due to an upper-body injury.
