Crouse scores twice, Utah Hockey Club hand Calgary Flames 5-3 loss

Lawson Crouse scored twice and the Utah Hockey Membership snapped a five-game winless skid with a 5-3 comeback victory over the Calgary Flames on Thursday.

Logan Cooley, Clayton Keller, and Kevin Stenlund — into an empty web — additionally scored for Utah (17-15-6).

Blake Coleman, Connor Zary, and Brayden Pachal scored for Calgary (18-13-7), which had its five-game level streak on residence ice snapped.

Karel Vejmelka had 23 stops to snap a three-game dropping streak. He improved to 9-10-2.

Dan Vladar had 21 saves for Calgary. He is winless in his final 4 begins and 6-8-5 on the season.

Takeaways

Utah: An sickness is working its means via the locker room. Keller missed Utah’s Tuesday’s sport with the bug and Matias Maccelli — who took Keller’s spot on the highest line — was the newest to fall sufferer, lacking his first sport of the season Thursday.

Flames: Calgary misplaced the companies of Nazem Kadri for an prolonged interval. After a bodily shift within the second interval the place Kadri battled backwards and forwards with Liam O’Brien, each gamers had been assessed 10-minute misconducts for his or her continued jawing after the whistle. Utah’s tying purpose and go-ahead targets within the third got here whereas Kadri was nonetheless serving the penalty.

Key second

Down 3-2 after 40 minutes, Utah scored twice early within the third with targets lower than two minutes aside. Keller steered in Olli Maatta’s level shot to tie it at 0:47. Crouse gave Utah their third lead of the evening at 2:35 when he took a move from Nick Bjugstad and beat Vladar simply contained in the goalpost for his sixth of the season.

Key stat

It is the primary time this season Calgary has failed to select up no less than one level from a sport they led after two intervals. They fall to 10-1-1 in that state of affairs.

Up subsequent

Flames: Play host to the Nashville Predators on Saturday.

Utah: Go to the Dallas Stars on Saturday.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first printed on Jan. 2, 2025.