The Arizona Coyotes are not a particularly good hockey team. They’ve played well for the last few weeks and entered tonight’s game on a winning streak, but they’re still dead-last in the National Hockey League’s standings. This was a game that the Calgary Flames were expected to win and, after a few recent losses, really needed to have. The Flames played desperate, clinical hockey for the better part of three periods and decisively beat the Coyotes 5-2 to capture a very important pair of points in the Western Conference playoff race.
The Rundown
This game did not begin well for the Flames.