The Calgary Flames played two good periods of hockey tonight.
Unfortunately, those two good periods sandwiched a pretty ugly second period, where they gave up three goals to the St. Louis Blues and responded with three shots of their own. That was the difference in a 4-3 home loss by the Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome this evening.
THE RUNDOWN
The Flames book-ended the first period with a pair of nice passing plays that were converted for goals. The rest of the period? Burn the tape. Lots of passes in skates and icings.
But the goals were really nice goals.