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Kevin Rooney and MacKenzie Weegar replied for
the Flames (33-30-5, 71 points), who saw their two-game winning
streak come to an end. Goalie Dustin Wolf stopped 28 shots.
Despite Calgary holding the edge in play, Strome opened the
scoring at 14:59 of the first period. He set up at the top of
the right circle and ripped a glove-side wrist shot for his 23rd
goal of the season, which matches his career high.
Ovechkin reached the 20-goal mark for the 19th time in his
19-year career at 5:58 of the second period. Ovechkin was set up
at the doorstep and redirected Max Pacioretty's pass for the
power-play marker, his 12th goal in his past 21 outings.
Ovechkin joined Gordie Howe and Brendan Shanahan to post 19
consecutive 20-goal seasons.
Another Ovechkin power-play goal made it a 3-0 affair at 9:16 of
the middle frame. He unloaded a patented one-timer from the left
faceoff dot to pull within 51 goals of Wayne Gretzky's record of
894 NHL tallies.
Rooney gave the Flames a much-needed boost with his second of
the season, a redirect from the side of the net 85 seconds later
to make it a 3-1 game.
Lapierre restored the three-goal lead at 14:22 of the middle
frame with a chip shot of a bounding puck in the slot that
banked off the crossbar and into the net for his eighth of the
campaign.
Weegar again pulled the Flames within a pair by blasting a point
shot off a faceoff win for his 16th of the season with 12:47
remaining in regulation.
However, Wilson sealed the victory with an empty-net goal, his
17th of the season, to round out the scoring with 2:29 left in
the third.
--Field Level Media
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