{"id":5472,"date":"2019-01-10T04:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2019-01-10T04:59:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T04:59:54","slug":"calgary-continue-to-dominate-with-victory-over-the-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/calgary-continue-to-dominate-with-victory-over-the-avalanche","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Continue to Dominate with Victory over the Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colorado Avalanche show their disappointment after Calgary\u2019s Mikael Backlund celebrates scoring during the first period in Calgary on Wednesday night<\/p><\/div>\n

The Calgary Flames continue to sit near the top of the league after recording another victory last night against the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n

Calgary came out aggressive in their bid to continue their push towards topping the standings. The\u00a0 Calgary Flames<\/a> are currently second overall, just behind Tampa Bay, and needed only 5 minutes and 34 seconds to score their first goal.<\/p>\n

Mikael Backlund picked up a rebound after a shot by James Neal bounced off the pads of Semyon Varlamov and wasted no time dumping it into the net to put the Flames up 1-0, and less than five minutes later, Mark Jankowski made it 2-0.<\/p>\n

Mark Giordano, who at 35 is one of the oldest defencemen in the league was in the wings helping earning assists on both goals. Giordano, who is having a solid season having racked up 43 points, commented,<\/p>\n

\u201cJust trying to put pucks on net, jump in when I can. Playing on a pretty good power play with pretty good players, trying to move the puck around to those guys and get it in their hands and when you do that with those types of players, they reward you.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elias Lindholm and Matthew Tkachuk also scored for Calgary, and T.J Brodie, Johnny Gaudreau, Sam Bennett, James Neal and Derek Ryan each were credited with assists.<\/p>\n

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