{"id":1384374,"date":"2019-01-09T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/giordano-has-3-assists-flames-down-avalanche-5-3\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T06:08:00","slug":"giordano-has-3-assists-flames-down-avalanche-5-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/giordano-has-3-assists-flames-down-avalanche-5-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Giordano has 3 assists, Flames down Avalanche 5-3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CALGARY, Alberta \u2014 Mark Giordano had three assists and the Calgary Flames kept on rolling with a 5-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night. <\/p>\n

Mikael Backlund, Mark Jankowski, Elias Lindholm, Michael Frolik and Matthew Tkachuk, into an empty net, scored for Calgary (28-13-4), which is 6-1-1 in its last eight games. The Flames have a two-point lead over Vegas atop the Pacific Division. <\/p>\n

Johnny Gaudreau added two assists to extend his point streak to six games. <\/p>\n

Giordano has 303 career assists, moving him past Joe Nieuwendyk into fifth on the franchise list. <\/p>\n

Nathan MacKinnon ran his point streak to eight games with a goal for Colorado. Erik Johnson and Mikko Rantanen also scored as the slumping Avalanche dropped to 1-6-2 in their last nine games. <\/p>\n

Calgary snapped a 2-all tie at 12:57 of the second period on Lindholm’s power-play goal. <\/p>\n

After a hooking penalty on Tyson Barrie, Sean Monahan won the faceoff and the Flames maintained possession. Lindholm took a feed from Giordano and wired a shot past goalie Semyon Varlamov. Colorado has killed off only 10 of 19 power plays over the last six games. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Flames’ penalty kill had a big night, going 4 for 4 against an Avalanche team that came into the game ranked fifth with the man advantage. Calgary has also been scuffling, entering the game having given up seven power-play goals on the previous 20 chances. <\/p>\n

Frolik’s goal at 9:14 of the third, when he deflected in Giordano’s point shot for a 4-2 lead, ended up the game-winner after Rantanen scored with 38 seconds remaining and the goalie pulled. <\/p>\n

Calgary got off to a fast start when Backlund buried James Neal’s rebound at 5:34. The Flames doubled their lead five minutes later on Jankowski’s seventh. But the Avalanche got back to even before the period ended. <\/p>\n

Consecutive giveaways by Calgary goaltender David Rittich and Monahan resulted in the Avs getting a tic-tac-toe goal from their top line with MacKinnon completing the passing sequence with Gabriel Landeskog and Rantanen. <\/p>\n

Johnson’s shot just inside the post tied it with 19 seconds left in the period. <\/p>\n

Rittich, who was sharp all night, had 32 stops to improve to 16-4-3. <\/p>\n

Varlamov, tested only 15 times, fell to 11-9-5. <\/p>\n

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UP NEXT <\/p>\n

Avalanche: Colorado is 0-2-0 on a five-game trip to Canada that continues Saturday night in Montreal. <\/p>\n

Flames: Host the Florida Panthers on Friday night. <\/p>\n

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CALGARY, Alberta \u2014 Mark Giordano had three assists and the Calgary Flames kept on rolling with a 5-3 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night. Mikael Backlund, Mark Jankowski, Elias Lindholm, Michael Frolik and Matthew Tkachuk, into an empty net, scored for Calgary (28-13-4), which is 6-1-1 in its last eight games. The Flames […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 11:06:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}