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The Flames are streaking!

A tired Vancouver teams comes into Calgary tonight and runs smack dab into a motivated Flames team ready to steal their lunch. Calgary erases a 1-0 Vancouver lead by scoring four straight and eventually taking it 5-2 on Thursday night.

The win gives the Flames points in six of the last seven games, and moves them back within striking distance of a playoff spot with that big Thanksgiving date fast approaching.

The Flames have another home game on Saturday against the Islanders before hitting the road for another four game trip.

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The Flames complete the three game Eastern Canadian with a 1-1-1 record after a solid road win in Montreal tonight by a 2-1 score.

Jacob Markstrom was brilliant in the win, giving up just the lone second period tally, a marker that was very much a fluke.

Calgary got goals from Nazem Kadri and Connor Zary, as they continue to click as linemates.

The Flames travel home to take on the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night. After that it’s the Islanders at the dome on Saturday and then off on another road trip.

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Just not the Flame’s night.

When they had some legs they couldn’t convert on their chances, and as the game rolled on the simply ran out of gas.

Close through two periods, a third period gaff pretty much put the game away, and with it the will of the Flames to push back into it.

A 4-1 loss that makes the trip 0-1-1 with the final game on this trip Tuesday in Montreal.

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Well that’s quite a point.

Trailing by three goals in the second period in Toronto isn’t the best recipe for success, but the Flames managed to pull back into it with three straight goals to force overtime.

In the extra time the Flames probably had the best of the chances, but neither team score sending the game to a shoot out.

Calgary with the leverage for the first 4 sets of shots, but they can’t get the save (on Marner) or the goal (Zary) to put things away. Finally the Leafs go ahead and the Flames’ Dillon Dube fails to tie it up.

That’s points in three straight games for the Flames, and a point in the toughest game of this three game road trip.

Still have a a hole to dig out of, but it’s slowly getting less and less deep.

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The Flames were the better team from coast to coast in this one, but to find the win they had to rebound from their own first period sloppiness.

Some bad first period reads lead to a 2-0 Nashville lead after a period despite the visitors getting outshot 17-6 in the first period, but the Flames stuck with it and came all the way back with four unanswered goals.

Jacob Markstrom was strong after the two goal first period, and the side story was a shortened bench and Jonathan Huberdeau benched for the entirety of the third period.

The Flames have now won two in a row, and head out East to play the Leafs on Friday night.

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