Flames take advantage of slumping Blackhawks in OT

Bad luck for the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime continued against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.

T.J. Brodie scored at 2:26 of the extra session to lead Flames to a 5-4 win over the slumping Blackhawks, whose overtime record fell to 0-6 this season.

"Overtime's been a sore spot," said Chicago coach Joel Quenneville, who's baffled by his team's inability to play well in OT. "I think we've got enough assets in there. In overtime, we've got to find a way to make it happen."

Brodie picked up a rebound in front of Chicago goalie Corey Crawford before scoring a wraparound goal to emerge as the hero in front of an announced crowd of 19,289 fans at the Scotiabank Saddledome.

"It's always nice winning, especially against a team like that," Brodie said.

The third-year defenceman gave credit to Flames forward Lee Stempniak and Sean Monahan for setting up his goal.

"There was a battle on the red-line and Stempy won the battle and gave a pass to Mony," Brodie explained. "Mony made a good play cutting to the middle and got a shot off. Crawford sort of slid out of the net from the shot. I just tried to wrap it around back out front and it ended up going in."

Mikael Backlund scored twice for the Flames (19-27-7), who won three straight games for the first time this season.

"There was a lot of emotions out there, a lot of chances back and forth," Backlund said. "These are fun games to play. I'm sure the coaches didn't think that, but I enjoyed the game."

Matt Stajan had a goal and an assist for Calgary, Lance Bouma also scored and Stempniak set up three goals.

Marian Hossa scored twice for the Blackhawks (32-10-13), who have gone 0-2-2 in their previous four games. Patrick Kane and Ben Smith also scored for Chicago.

"They're a hard-working team so we expected them to work hard," Kane said. "They always seem to give us a tough game in this building. We had to be ready for it. I thought we did a good job fighting back. It was just a few too many mistakes."

Neither of the starting goalies played particularly well and both were replaced in net by their respective head coaches.

Reto Berra stopped 20-of-24 shots he faced through two periods before Karri Ramo took over in the Calgary net for the final frame and overtime. Ramo made nine saves to pick up the win.

Antti Raanta drew the start in net for Chicago, but was pulled after he stopped just 11-of-15 shots he faced through 1 1/2 periods of play. Crawford came on in relief and stopped 13 consecutive shots before giving up Brodie's OT goal.

The Flames held a pair of one-goal leads in the first period before the Blackhawks responded both times to tie up the game 2-2 after 20 minutes of play.

Calgary jumped out to a quick start as captain Mark Giordano rang a shot off the post 37 seconds into the game before Backlund scored his 10th goal of the season at 1:13 of the first.

Backlund took a pass Stempniak and shook off a check from Chicago defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson before backhanding a shot that snuck through Raanta's legs.

The Blackhawks evened the score at 5:53 when Kane converted a nice backhand pass from Kris Versteeg from behind the Calgary net.

The Flames regained their one-goal lead at 11:34 when Bouma's weak wrist shot hit Raanta in the shoulder before bouncing up and over the Chicago goalie and into the net.

Once again, the Hawks drew even on a goal by Hossa with 3:25 remaining in the opening frame. Patrick Sharp appeared to score the goal, but his stick hit Hossa's, which actually directed the puck into the net behind Berra, who made a great pad save to stop the initial shot taken by Jonathan Toews.

David Jones made a nice play to set up Stajan for his ninth goal of the season at 3:21 of the second before Backlund converted a feed from Stempniak for a short-handed marker at 10:25 to put the Flames up 4-2.

The Hawks pulled back to within one when Smith's long wrist shot bounced off of Berra's catching glove and into the net. Hossa then tied the game at 4-4 when he swatted a rebound past Berra at 17:33 of the second while Chicago was killing off a penalty.

The Blackhawks outshot the Flames 9-7 in the third period, in which neither Ramo nor Crawford surrendered any goals.

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