Frolik lifts Flames over Oilers 5-4

Michael Frolik scored his third goal of the game with 8.7 seconds left, and the Calgary Flames snapped a four-game losing streak with a 5-4 victory the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. When the Flames scored, it was Edmonton’s turn to challenge the call for goalie interference and that goal, too, was called off. When Draisaitl evened the score at 4, the Flames nearly fell apart, as they have often done in third periods this season.

“The puck was rimmed in and (Matt) Stajan went to battle and I kind of came to help him”, Frolik said.

“No excuses, that puck can’t cross the line”.

“It was an exciting game against Montreal because it’s rare to fight back and win…and tonight Hallsy’s line did a great job getting us back in the game, but things like this (falling behind) catch up to you”, said Ference.

“They came back but we stuck with it. It was a big goal and hopefully this is going to get us going and hopefully we can keep going”.

The Flames, who improved to 3-8-1, desperately needed something good to happen and were simply glad it did, no matter what the circumstances.

A hat trick is always nice, but to get one against a provincial rival on the road to end a slump in the final seconds of regulation is as good as it gets. “We thought we’d go out there against them, and it (a win) would just happen”.

Next up for the Oilers, they host the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday.

“It’s really disappointing to go behind 2-0, 3-0 every game”, said left winger Taylor Hall. “It forces you to play a ideal game from there on”. If he does, I believe he could be a key player in the Flames success.

The Flames went up 2-0 with eight-and-a-half minutes left in the opening period as Talbot coughed up the puck behind the net to Stajan and he sent it in front to Frolik, who scored his first of the season into a wide-open net.

Hall replied for Edmonton with his fifth of the season as Edmonton spent the rest of the night chasing the game.

The Oilers appeared to have a power-play goal four minutes into the second, but Benoit Pouliot’s score was overturned on a ruling of contact with the goalie.

With 9:22 left in the second period, Brandon Davidson beat Ramo with a rocket from the point on the power play, for his second goal in 2 games, to make it 3-2 Flames.

The Flames nearly let a couple of two-goal leads go all for not in the contest. Instead, they opened the third period with another goal, putting them back in the game.

“We knew that they have so much speed, they kept coming”, said Hartley.

The Oilers made it 4-3 with the man advantage 48 seconds into the third period as a puck came through traffic to Purcell at the side of the net for the goal. But the home team closed the door on a shutout when Hall screened Karri Ramo and tipped in the Oilers first goal.

Calgary got off to a fast start.