Calgary Flames Start Month by Shutting out St. Louis Blues
No one could hope for a more exciting and lifting start to the month than what Calgary did Tuesday night. In the second last month of regulation season games, when a team starts performing like this, it a good sign in every way possible. Not only did
Calgary score 6 goals on St. Louis, but didn’t even let them put their eyes on Miikka Kiprusoff let alone score for the second time in two continuous matchups. The Blues were torn apart as the Flames shut them out 6-0 at their own sold out Scottrade Centre
in St. Louis, Missouri.
"That's how you can break the teams, just don't make mistakes and keep pushing," Miikka Kiprusoff said. "I think that's what happened."
Three stars for the night were none other than Jarome Iginla, Kiprusoff and Alex Tanguay. Iginla finally ended his five-game goal deficiency, which started to look as if had left the game to the other players until now, getting two in through the monstrous
Ben Bishop and picking up an assist in the opening goal of the night. Nothing new can be said for Kiprusoff aka Kipper to his teammates and fans, has been playing amazingly well this season, becoming widely known as the “Shutout Goalie”, he made a perfect
25 saves.
Shoot, shoot, shoot
Calgary has adapted an offensive strategy which some call the “shoot, shoot, shoot” tactic, in which they take as many attempts whenever they see an opportunity, if you don’t try you won’t know if it works or not, and it certainly has for the Flames.
Tanguay scored the first of the night with under 2 minutes remaining in the first after 17 attempts, almost double of the Blues, taking an early 1-0 lead for his team.
Both teams remained cold in the following period, until the Flames caught ablaze in the final.
The Flames are a spontaneous team and they got their needed spark in the third period goal after goal after goal. Within the opening five minutes, Iginla along with Brendan Morrison on a 2-on-1 break got his first of the night, with David Moss following
with another 2 minutes later and again Iginla scoring his 27th of the season midway through the final.
It was 4-0 with half the period remaining and it looked like St. Louis just stopped trying.
"Iginla really made us look bad on a few plays, a couple times they got odd-man rushes, a couple times we just failed to grab assignments and they made us pay," Blues http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/players/profile?playerId=3301 said. "It should be tough for guys to sleep tonight."
Morrison picked up his third assist of the match when passing to Robyn Regehr during a power play when Chris Stewart was penalized for 2 minutes at the 12:42 mark. The fifth and last goal came from Niklas Hagma who scored with under five seconds remaining,
showing that they didn’t quite until the match was over.
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