Flames Fall 2-1 to the Oilers in Calgary

The Calgary Flames lost the home part of their split squad set against the Oilers by a score of 2-1. Despite outshooting the Oilers 33 to 21, the Flames could not bury many of their glorious chances and were unable to break through on the scoresheet until there were only 9 seconds left in the game.

First Period

The opening period was somewhat uneventful, there were a few good chances but nothing that came to fruition. The Flames came closest to scoring in the period while on a 2 minute 5-on-3 powerplay, when a nice passing play from Oliver Kylington to Hunter Shinkaruk to Matt Stajan resulted in Stajan hitting the outside of the post instead of the wide open net. It was scoreless after 1,…