Sam Morton and Zayne Parekh scored during their NHL debut, Nazem Kadri scored two goals and the Calgary flames beat the Kings of Los Angeles 5-1 of the playoffs Thursday evening in the regular season.
Taylor Ward scored during his beginnings in the NHL for the Kings, whose sequence of four consecutive victories ended with only his fifth defeat in 22 games since the deadline. Los Angeles failed to set new franchise peaks for points and victories, corresponding rather to the 48 victories of the 2015-2016 team and the 105 points of the 1974-75 team.
David Rittich stopped 24 shots for Kings, which will face the ilers of Edmonton In the first round of the Stanley Cup playoff series for the fourth consecutive season – but with a home advantage for the first time. Los Angeles had the best NHL home record at 31-6-4.
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Calgary scored four goals in 5 1/2 minutes in the third period. The non -drained Morton started when he led the net and muscled a pass from Ryan Lomberg.
Parekh, a 19 -year -old defender, scored two minutes later on a redirection of the Mikael Backlund to the net.
Backlund added its own goal to conclude a match postponed from January due to forest fires in southern California.
Ward, a 27 -year -old attacker who is not linked to Los Angeles Angels Angels Angels, marked with 6:11 to play.
Take -out
Flames: Parekh, the ninth overall choice last summer, is the cornerstone of reconstruction. The same goes for the guardian of the recruit Dustin Wolf, a product of the Junior Kings system.
Kings: While some regulars rested, Quinton Byfield returned from an absence of injury from a match after being counted on Monday by Darnell of Edmonton. Defender Joel Edmundson also came back from an absence of five games.
Key
Kadri opened the scoring at the start of the second period. He then obtained his 35th goal of the season on a tri-timer 83 seconds after Morton’s goal.
Key statistics
Daniel Vladar made 30 stops for Calgary.
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