CALGARY, Alberta (AP) 鈥� Mikael Backlund, Dennis Gilbert, Nazem Kadri and Blake Coleman scored and the Calgary Flames outlasted the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Sunday night.
Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves to help the Flames improve to 15-16-5. Andrew Mangiapane had three assists and Jonathan Huberdeau added an assist to snap a 12-game points drought.
鈥淚t鈥檚 confidence. Just making the plays when they鈥檙e there. I cannot complicate it on myself,鈥� Huberdeau said. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 what I did tonight. I鈥檝e just got to build on that and do the same thing over and over.鈥�
Mangiapane entered the night with a goal and two assists in his previous 12 games.
鈥淚t鈥檚 good for, obviously, my confidence levels,鈥� Mangiapane said. "Just have a good game and I think of late, I鈥檝e been trending in the right direction.鈥�
Rasmus Ristolainen, with his first of the season, and Bobby Brink and Egor Zamula scored for Philadelphia and Sam Ersson made 28 saves. The Flyers dropped to 19-12-5, failing to earn points for the first time in their last 10 road games.
鈥淓very now and again we鈥檙e going to have games like this,鈥� Ersson said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 about finding ways to win games and today we came up short, but I think, as we showed at the end, that we push and we have that mentality that we don鈥檛 give in and we don鈥檛 give up. Obviously, a tough loss but some good things to take with us.鈥�
There were four goals in the last 5:31, with Kadri beginning the spree to give Calgary a 3-1 lead. With Ersson off for an extra attacker, Brink scored with 3:24 to go.
Coleman scored into an empty net with 2:18 remaining. With Ersson off again, Zamula scored with 1:24 left.
鈥淣o quitting at the end,鈥� Flyers center Sean Couturier said. 鈥淭oo bad we didn鈥檛 show up the first two periods.鈥�
UP NEXT
Flyers: At Edmonton on Tuesday night.
Flames: At Minnesota on Tuesday night.
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