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Instant Reaction: Flames battle back to beat Flyers in overtime
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Ryan Pike
Nov 8, 2026, 21:55 EST
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Welcome to Instant Reaction, where we give you our instant reaction to tonight’s Calgary Flames game and ask our readers to do the same in the comments section below! 
The Calgary Flames continued their homestand on Sunday evening when they welcomed the Philadelphia Flyers to the Scotiabank Saddledome for the final time. Both teams had their workboots on but both couldn’t quite bury their chances in a game where the Flames never had a lead during regulation.
In a game that required extra time to decide a victor, the Flames beat the Flyers in overtime by a 4-3 score.

The rundown

It was a sleepy first few minutes of the game, as both teams tried to find their rhythm and struggled to execute with the puck.
A bad break and some nice execution led to the opening goal for the road team. Zayne Parekh blew a tire in the neutral zone trying to track back against a Flyers rush play, leaving Yan Kuznetsov alone to defend a three-on-one attack. Sean Couturier’s initial shot hit Devin Cooley’s pad, but it rebounded right out to Denver Barkey, who beat Cooley to make it 1-0 Flyers.
A few minutes later, the Flames tied things back up. The Flames got the puck down low in the Flyers zone, then cycled back to the point. Zayne Parekh received a pass and then decided to try to make a play, cutting between a couple Flyers skaters to get in the slot area, then firing a shot that beat Dan Vladar glove-side to tie the game at 1-1.
Early in the second period, the Flyers pulled ahead again. Nick Seeler fired a shot from the left point. Noel Acciari got position on Kuznetsov in the slot and got a blade on Seeler’s shot, causing it to change direction and wobble past Cooley to make it 2-1 Flyers.
But the Flames, again, drew even. This time, Aydar Suniev made a nice play at the Flyers blueline to hold the puck in the zone, then passed it to Zach Whitecloud. Whitecloud opted to shoot, beating Vladar high stick-side to tie the game at 2-2.
The Flyers retook the lead late in the third period on a power play. The Flyers cycled the puck well and Christian Dvorak, handling the puck below the goal line, seemed to fake the Flames’ defenders out double-clutching on a pass attempt. Then he actually passed to a wide-open Owen Tippett in the slot. Tippett fired the puck past Cooley to give the Flyers a 3-2.
But midway through the third period, the Flames managed to draw even – again. That time, on a Flyers power play, Martin Pospisil made a nice play to disrupt the Flyers’ zone time and spring Joel Farabee for a breakaway. Farabee made a nice move to beat Vladar for a shorthanded goal to make it 3-3.
The game headed to overtime, and the action was back and forth, with both teams getting strong looks but the goaltenders making big saves.
Matt Coronato finished off a rush sequence with a shot that beat Vladar with 51.7 seconds left in overtime to give the Flames the 4-3 win.

Why the Flames won

The Flames weren’t great in this hockey game. They were decent for stretches, but there were big chunks of this game where they just didn’t have their mojo going. The first period was pretty even. The second period was skewed towards the Flyers. But the Flames found their rhythm in the third period after some line shuffling. Give them credit: Devin Cooley made some key saves, and a few Flames players made some key offensive plays at key times to give them a chance.
In extra time, the Flames made one more play than the Flyers and got the extra point.

Red Warrior

We’re gonna give the nod to Zayne Parekh, who was dynamic and very entertaining in this game.
Honourable mentions to Devin Cooley and Joel Farabee, too.

Turning point

Joel Farabee’s shorthanded goal to tie the game was huge for the home side.

Flames lineup

The Flames looked like this against Anaheim:
Joel Farabee – Mikael Backlund [C] – Matt Coronato
Matvei Gridin – Martin Pospisil – Ryan Strome [A]
Yegor Sharangovich – Morgan Frost – Aydar Suniev
William Stromgren – Jonathan Castagna – Adam Klapka
Joel Hanley – Simon Nemec
Jake Middleton – Zach Whitecloud [A]
Yan Kuznetsov – Zayne Parekh
Devin Cooley started in net, backed up by Dustin Wolf. The healthy extras were Joel Hanley and Maxim Tsyplakov. Jonathan Huberdeau, Sam Honzek, Brennan Othmann and Kevin Bahl missed the game due to injury.
The forward lines got shuffled in the third period, looking like this:
Suniev – Frost – Coronato
Gridin – Pospisil – Klapka
Farabee – Backlund – Sharangovich
Stromgren – Castagna – Strome

This and that

This was the Saddledome’s annual Hockey Fights Cancer theme game.
This was Dan Vladar’s first-ever road game appearance in the Saddledome. (And his last, too.)

After Burner

Join Mike Gould and Robert Munnich right after the game for After Burner!

Up next

The Flames (8-9-1) close out their homestand on Wednesday night when they welcome the New York Rangers to the Saddledome for the final time.

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Pack your bags, rally the crew and get ready to bring the heat to Montreal. Travel packages are available now, but spots are limited!
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