Martin Pospisil broke a third-period tie with his first goal of the season to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday at Honda Center.
Calgary struck first at 8:32 of the opening period when Adam Klapka scored on a snap shot, assisted by Maxim Tsyplakov. Anaheim answered with two goals to take the lead. Beckett Sennecke tied the game at 12:09 with an unassisted wrist shot, and Leo Carlsson scored on a power-play snap shot at 14:05 with assists from Mikael Granlund and Judd Caulfield.
The Flames pulled even at 8:02 of the second period when Aydar Suniev scored on a snap shot off feeds from Ryan Strome and Simon Nemec. Pospisil put Calgary back ahead at 15:38 of the third period with a snap shot, set up by Suniev and Yan Kuznetsov. Yegor Sharangovich scored his first goal of the season into an empty net with a wrist shot at 18:38, assisted by Mikael Backlund and Nemec.
Dustin Wolf made 23 saves on 25 shots to pick up the win for Calgary. Lukas Dostal stopped 32 of 35 shots in the loss for Anaheim as the Flames outshot the Ducks 36-25. Anaheim converted 1 of 5 power plays, while Calgary finished 0 for 3 with the man advantage.
The victory improved Calgary to 1-5-0 on the regular season, while Anaheim moved to 4-2-0. Each team has won once in the regular-season series between the clubs.
Calgary hosts the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday, October 18. Anaheim visits the New York Rangers on Monday, October 19.
