Mikhail Sergachev scored one goal on a three-point play and Maverick Lamoureux scored his first NHL goal as the host Utah Hockey League earned a 5-1 win over the slumping Calgary Flames on Wednesday in Salt Lake City.
Alexander Kerfoot, Barrett Hayton and Clayton Keller also scored goals for Utah, which entered the match without a win in four games. Nick Schmaltz and Dylan Guenther each collected two assists and goalie Connor Ingram made 30 saves.
Anthony Mantha answered for a Flames team that has lost four straight games, all in regulation. Goalie Dustin Wolfe stopped 23 shots.
Although Calgary had a first-half advantage in shots and possession, the hosts took a two-goal lead into the first intermission.
Kerfoot opened the scoring at the 4:41 mark by finding the mark through a screen from the high slot on the glove side for the first time this season. Oddly enough, his last goal was also against the Flames.
Hayton doubled the lead with 1.6 seconds remaining in the opening frame. During a rush up the ice while the teams were playing four-on-four, Hayton got the puck in the slot, worked the left circle and shot inside the far post.
Mantha provided a spark for Calgary when he put the visitors on the board at 3:53 of the second period with a clear shot from the left circle for his third of the season, but Lamoureux restored Utah’s two-goal lead 17 seconds later on a long shot for his mentor’s marker. This was Lamoureux’s fourth career game, and he is a 2022 first-round draft pick.
Sergachev’s goal during a five-on-three power play at 16:32 of the second period, a point shot off a screen for his second time this season, put him up by three.
Keller extended the lead to 5-1 with another power-play goal, his sixth of the season, five minutes into the third period to round out the scoring.
Flames captain Mikael Backlund skated in his 1,000th regular season game.
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