A week ago, the Calgary Flames were winning despite Martin Pospisil’s slump and the NHL club’s weak power play.
The Flames won thanks to key contributions from both Saturday afternoon in a thrilling 4-3 shootout victory over the red-hot Minnesota Wild.
With the game tied 1-1 late in the second period, Calgary scored on its first power play of the game when Pospisil, stationed in front of the net, neatly steered Nazem Kadri’s slap-pass behind Filip Gustavsson for his first goal in 20 games.
“When Marty is skating and physical, the offence follows him,” said Flames coach Ryan Huska. “If he really focuses on how he has to play every night, he’s going to find goals like that, especially in that spot on the power play.
“He’s one guy that we know is always going to go to the net.”
Yegor Sharangovich also scored a power-play goal in the third …