The Calgary Flames are high in the standings. The Ottawa Senators are low in the standings. Thursday night’s game between the two clubs at the Scotiabank Saddledome ended as many predicted it might, with a 5-1 victory for the Flames.
The Rundown
The Senators opened the scoring early in the first period off a great individual effort by Anthony Duclair. He strode into the Flames zone with speed, out-raced Rasmus Andersson, then teed up a tap-in at the front of the net for a streaking Dylan DeMelo to make it 1-0 Ottawa.
But the Flames evened things up in a very Flames manner: on the penalty kill.