Flames Visual Recap 73: Calgary unable to keep up in wild card race with regulation loss to Vegas

The Calgary Flames have virtually no room for error in their attempt to make the playoffs, and yet, they erred. Facing off against the Vegas Golden Knights, Calgary was placed in a must-win situation as they had to keep pace with the Winnipeg Jets and Nashville Predators.

However, as the Flames have done all season, they did not make anything easy for themselves. Being down by two goals in the first period, Calgary was able to respond with one for themselves before the end of the period. A scoreless second passed, and then early in the third the Golden Knights scored again to restore their two-goal lead.

A two-goal deficit was hard for Calgary to overcome as they continue to struggle with any semblance of mounting a third period comeback, and with their season very much hanging on by the thinnest of threads, they weren’t able to find that next level to at least gain a point. One goal was scored by Nazem Kadri to bring the game within on, but that was it.

Calgary lost in regulation, Winnipeg won in regulation, Nashville won in a shootout. The best stroke of luck might still not be enough for the Flames at this point.

Charts from the defeat are below.

Game events

Goals

Goal	Assists	Time	Score
Jonathan Marchessault	Jack Eichel, Alex Pietrangelo	11:43 \| 1st	VGK 1 – 0 CGY
Michael Amadio	Shea Theodore, Ivan Barbashev	15:23 \| 1st	VGK 2 – 0 CGY
Milan Lucic	Walker Duehr	19:02 \| 1st	VGK 2 – 1 CGY
Nicolas Roy	Phil Kessel, Chandler Stephenson	05:19 \| 3rd	VGK 3 – 1 CGY
Nazem Kadri (PPG)	Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar	12:33 \| 3rd	VGK 3 – 2 CGY