Flames Visual Recap 59: Flames blow another third period lead, remain winless in Vegas after OT loss

The Calgary Flames are simply painful to watch at this point.

After an extremely well executed forty minutes of play, in which Jakob Pelletier, Jonathan Huberdeau, and Mikael Backlund would all score, the Flames blew another 3-1 lead in the third period and lost yet another game in overtime.

There is simply no explaining how poorly executed this team’s game plan is at this point in time, as you can’t expect this many third period collapses to lead to many wins.

Looking back at the game, you can point to the questionable penalty call on Walker Duehr that resulted in the first Vegas goal as the first warning sign. Dan Vladar’s weak goal that made the game 3-2 was the second sign. The final straw came in OT when Backlund decided that while Vegas had the rush, it was a good time to make a change.

This team keeps finding new ways to lose.

Charts from the game:

Game events

Goals

Goal	Assists	Time	Score
Jakob Pelletier (PPG)	Mikael Backlund, Noah Hanifin	13:25 \| 1st	CGY 1 – 0 VGK
Jonathan Huberdeau	Jakob Pelletier, Nazem Kadri	01:24 \| 2nd	CGY 2 – 0 VGK
Jack Eichel (PPG)	Shea Theodore, Michael Amadio	14:27 \| 2nd	CGY 2 – 1 VGK
Mikael Backlund	Blake Coleman, MacKenzie Weegar	16:34 \| 2nd	CGY 3 – 1 VGK
Zach Whitecloud	Reilly Smith	05:08 \| 3rd	CGY 3 – 2 VGK
William Carrier	Alec Martinez, Chandler Stephenson	12:35 \| 3rd	CGY 3 – 3 VGK
Alex Pietrangelo	Jonathan Marchessault, Jack Eichel	00:42 \| OT	CGY 3 – 4 VGK