The Calgary Flames opened their home schedule in front of an energetic Saddledome crowd on Monday evening. The Flames played a pretty good game at five-on-five, but weren’t able to translate zone time into enough high-danger scoring chances. They lost a 3-2 overtime effort to the Anaheim Ducks.
The rundown
The Flames were a bit rusty early, experiencing some troubles executing passes on attempted breakouts from their defensive zone. But the Ducks couldn’t execute in the Flames zone themselves, which gave the Flames some opportunities to right the ship.
Midway through the period, the Ducks whiffed on a scoring chance in the high slot.