<p><em class="text-lg italic">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!</em></p>
<p>Across the first four games of the Calgary Flames&#8217; road trip, they scored four goals. In the first period of the fifth game, Tuesday night against the Philadelphia Flyers, they scored four goals.</p>
<p>After struggling to bury chances for much of the past 10 days, the Flames erupted offensively en route to a 6-3 road win over the Flyers in the penultimate game of their six game road trip.</p>
<h1>The rundown</h1>
<p>The Flames and Flyers exchanged power plays in the first portion of the opening period, with neither team cashing in. Following a Flames penalty kill, they put out Connor Zary with the top line of Nazem Kadri and Jonathan Huberdeau for the bump-up shift and it resulted in a goal. Zary got to the front of the Flyers net and redirected a Brayden Pachal point shot past Samuel Ersson to make it 1-0 Flames.</p>
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<p>Connor Zary opens the scoring in Philly! </p>
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<p>&mdash; Robert Munnich (@RingOfFireCGY) <a href="https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897081280896090480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 5, 2025</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>On the very next shift, the Flames added to their lead. A Flyers shot went off a stanchion and ended up with Kadri carrying the puck into the Flyers zone on an odd-man rush. He called his own number, shooting and beating Ersson to make it 2-0 Flames.</p>
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<p>Nazem Kadri scores in back to back games! It&#39;s 2-0 early in the first period! </p>
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<p>A little later still, Zary – this time playing on the fourth line with Ryan Lomberg and Kevin Rooney – joined the rush. In a bit of a scrambly play, Zary chucked the puck on net from the bottom of the circles to the side of Ersson. The puck bonked in off Ersson&#8217;s back to give the Flames a 3-0 lead. (That ended Ersson&#8217;s evening.)</p>
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<p>Connor Zary scores his 2nd goal of the game! That&#39;s three goals in 1:52 for Calgary!</p>
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<p>A little later, the Flyers replied back. Tyson Foester was tripped up by Rasmus Andersson on the initial rush. A delayed penalty was called, but Noah Cates retrieved the loose puck and fired it past Dustin Wolf to make it 3-1. (Kevin Bahl was attempting a standing block, but it may have operated more as an unintentional screen.)</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Noah Cates scores for Philly. It&#39;s 3-1 Flames. </p>
<p>What a crazy start to this game.</p>
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<p>A little later, Kadri got his pocket picketed in the neutral zone by Andrei Kuzmenko. Kuzmenko skated into the Flames zone and fired a shot between MacKenzie Weegar&#8217;s legs that beat Wolf glove-side to cut the lead to 3-2.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Andre Kuzmenko steals the puck from Nazem Kadri. He goes in and rips a shot past Dustin Wolf. </p>
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<p>But late in the period, the Flames answered back. Yegor Sharangovich had the puck at the side of the net and slid it past Ivan Fedotov to give the Flames a 4-2 lead.</p>
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<p>Yegor Sharangovich sneaks a shot past Ivan Fedotov! It&#39;s 4-2 Flames! </p>
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<p>First period shots were 12-11 Flyers. Via Natural Stat Trick, five-on-five scoring chances were 11-10 Flames (high-danger chances were 3-1 Flyers).</p>
<p>The second period was less chaotic than the opening 20 minutes, with the Flames playing with the lead and managing the puck a little better than earlier on.</p>
<p>After Blake Coleman was high-sticked in the face for the second period in a row, the Flames cashed in on the power play. Morgan Frost had a great scoring chance around the blue paint. He opted to sent the rebound out to the high slot for Weegar, whose shot beat Fedotov to make it 5-2 Flames.</p>
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<p>MacKenzie Weegar scores on the power play! That&#39;s five goals tonight for Calgary!</p>
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<p>Second period shots were 12-9 Flames. Five-on-five scoring chances were 7-4 Flames (high-danger chances were 3-1 Flames).</p>
<p>Midway through the third period, the Flyers took advantage of some soft play on the puck by the Flames – and some favourable bounces – leading to a puck being swatted across the line by Matvei Michkov to cut the Calgary lead to 5-3.</p>
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<p>But that&#8217;s as close as the Flyers got. They pulled Fedotov for the extra attacker on a late power play, but Matt Coronato scored an empty-net goal to cement a 6-3 Flames victory.</p>
<p>Third period shots were 10-6 Flames.</p>
<h1>Why the Flames won</h1>
<p>After struggling to score – or even display a ton of confidence in the offensive zone – in the past few games, the Flames looked really sharp with the puck and were rewarded for it. Did the Flyers get great goaltending? Nope. Was Dustin Wolf better than either Flyers goalie? Yep. But if you look at the overall shape of this hockey game, the Flames were at least a little better than the Flyers in virtually every portion of it.</p>
<p>That usually gets you two points.</p>
<h1>Red Warrior</h1>
<p>Connor Zary played this game on the fourth line as he builds his game back up after missing 15 games&#8230; and he was excellent in limited action. When he was on the ice, the Flames got a ton of energy, and he scored twice.</p>
<p>Other Flames with multi-point games: Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar and Morgan Frost.</p>
<h1>Turning point</h1>
<p>We&#8217;re just going to be lazy and say &#8220;the first period.&#8221; The Flames had played in a ton of tiring, close games over this trip, and getting as many goals as they did, as early as they did, was huge for them.</p>
<h1>This and that</h1>
<p>The Flames are now 10-0-0 when scoring more than three goals in a game. They&#8217;re 19-23-9 when scoring three or fewer.</p>
<h1>Up next</h1>
<p>The Flames (29-23-9) will close out their six game road trip on Thursday when they visit the Dallas Stars.</p>
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<em class="text-lg italic">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!</em>

Across the first four games of the Calgary Flames' road trip, they scored four goals. In the first period of the fifth game, Tuesday night against the Philadelphia Flyers, they scored four goals.

After struggling to bury chances for much of the past 10 days, the Flames erupted offensively en route to a 6-3 road win over the Flyers in the penultimate game of their six game road trip.
<h1>The rundown</h1>
The Flames and Flyers exchanged power plays in the first portion of the opening period, with neither team cashing in. Following a Flames penalty kill, they put out Connor Zary with the top line of Nazem Kadri and Jonathan Huberdeau for the bump-up shift and it resulted in a goal. Zary got to the front of the Flyers net and redirected a Brayden Pachal point shot past Samuel Ersson to make it 1-0 Flames.

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897081280896090480

On the very next shift, the Flames added to their lead. A Flyers shot went off a stanchion and ended up with Kadri carrying the puck into the Flyers zone on an odd-man rush. He called his own number, shooting and beating Ersson to make it 2-0 Flames.

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897081834116444633

A little later still, Zary – this time playing on the fourth line with Ryan Lomberg and Kevin Rooney – joined the rush. In a bit of a scrambly play, Zary chucked the puck on net from the bottom of the circles to the side of Ersson. The puck bonked in off Ersson's back to give the Flames a 3-0 lead. (That ended Ersson's evening.)

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897082410984202584

A little later, the Flyers replied back. Tyson Foester was tripped up by Rasmus Andersson on the initial rush. A delayed penalty was called, but Noah Cates retrieved the loose puck and fired it past Dustin Wolf to make it 3-1. (Kevin Bahl was attempting a standing block, but it may have operated more as an unintentional screen.)

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897082935356088377

A little later, Kadri got his pocket picketed in the neutral zone by Andrei Kuzmenko. Kuzmenko skated into the Flames zone and fired a shot between MacKenzie Weegar's legs that beat Wolf glove-side to cut the lead to 3-2.

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897085246061076576

But late in the period, the Flames answered back. Yegor Sharangovich had the puck at the side of the net and slid it past Ivan Fedotov to give the Flames a 4-2 lead.

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897085677835297034

First period shots were 12-11 Flyers. Via Natural Stat Trick, five-on-five scoring chances were 11-10 Flames (high-danger chances were 3-1 Flyers).

The second period was less chaotic than the opening 20 minutes, with the Flames playing with the lead and managing the puck a little better than earlier on.

After Blake Coleman was high-sticked in the face for the second period in a row, the Flames cashed in on the power play. Morgan Frost had a great scoring chance around the blue paint. He opted to sent the rebound out to the high slot for Weegar, whose shot beat Fedotov to make it 5-2 Flames.

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897099684344422435

Second period shots were 12-9 Flames. Five-on-five scoring chances were 7-4 Flames (high-danger chances were 3-1 Flames).

Midway through the third period, the Flyers took advantage of some soft play on the puck by the Flames – and some favourable bounces – leading to a puck being swatted across the line by Matvei Michkov to cut the Calgary lead to 5-3.

https://twitter.com/RingOfFireCGY/status/1897111127261335729

But that's as close as the Flyers got. They pulled Fedotov for the extra attacker on a late power play, but Matt Coronato scored an empty-net goal to cement a 6-3 Flames victory.

Third period shots were 10-6 Flames.
<h1>Why the Flames won</h1>
After struggling to score – or even display a ton of confidence in the offensive zone – in the past few games, the Flames looked really sharp with the puck and were rewarded for it. Did the Flyers get great goaltending? Nope. Was Dustin Wolf better than either Flyers goalie? Yep. But if you look at the overall shape of this hockey game, the Flames were at least a little better than the Flyers in virtually every portion of it.

That usually gets you two points.
<h1>Red Warrior</h1>
Connor Zary played this game on the fourth line as he builds his game back up after missing 15 games... and he was excellent in limited action. When he was on the ice, the Flames got a ton of energy, and he scored twice.

Other Flames with multi-point games: Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar and Morgan Frost.
<h1>Turning point</h1>
We're just going to be lazy and say "the first period." The Flames had played in a ton of tiring, close games over this trip, and getting as many goals as they did, as early as they did, was huge for them.
<h1>This and that</h1>
The Flames are now 10-0-0 when scoring more than three goals in a game. They're 19-23-9 when scoring three or fewer.
<h1>Up next</h1>
The Flames (29-23-9) will close out their six game road trip on Thursday when they visit the Dallas Stars.
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