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CALGARY Jonathan Bernier Jersey Womens , Alberta (AP) — Down by three goals going into the third period, the Calgary Flames were far from done.Mark Giordano had a goal and two assists, and Calgary scored five straight times in the third to rally past the Colorado Avalanche 6-5 on Thursday night.With the game tied 4-all, Giordano scored the go-ahead goal at 13:47 when he jumped up into the rush, took a pass from Mikael Backlund and snapped a shot over the blocker of goaltender Semyon Varlamov.“If you’re coming in late and their forwards are scrambling back, sometimes things open up,” said Giordano, who has two goals and 12 assists this season. “I was happy (Backlund) found me there, it was a good spot to shoot from.”Backlund, Elias Lindholm, Sean Monahan, James Neal and Michael Frolik also scored for the Flames (8-5-1), who have won three straight. Matthew Tkachuk added three assists.It’s already the fourth time this season the Flames have come back to win when trailing after two periods.Colin Wilson, Vladislav Kamenev, Sheldon Dries, Carl Soderberg and Gabriel Landeskog scored for Colorado (7-4-2), which has lost three of four.It was the first career goal for both Kamenev and Dries.“Five goals in the third is a lot. Give credit to them, but we definitely had a hand in letting them come back,” said Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon Mike Reilly Jersey , who was held off the scoresheet and ended up minus-3.Trailing 4-1 after two periods, Calgary began its comeback 47 seconds into the third on Lindholm’s power-play goal, his team-leading ninth goal of the season.The man advantage was the result of a charging major on Ian Cole late in the second period after his heavy hit crumpled Mark Jankowski as he was looking back for a pass. Shaken up, Jankowski went to the dressing room.He returned to sit on the bench in the third, but did not play. After the game, he was deemed healthy.It was the response to the hit from Sam Bennett, who immediately fought Cole, that players pointed to as the turning point.“He’s a feisty little kid. He definitely knows how to throw them,” Backlund said. “That gave the team some momentum and some energy. Great job by him stepping up for the team and for Janko. It brought a lot of energy into the room going into the third.”The Flames drew within one at 5:21 when Monahan deflected Noah Hanifin’s point shot.The Saddledome crowd then roared at 10:52 when Neal got the puck in the slot and ripped a shot past Varlamov for his third goal and a tie game.“It felt good, obviously, for me,” said Neal, who had been off to a slow start with just two goals in his first 13 games. “Personally, I want to score goals, you want to help the team win. It’s been a little bit of tough sledding here at the start, but I’ve been through it before. You just try to stick with it and you get rewarded like I did tonight.”The sequence leading up to Neal’s goal began when rookie defenseman Juuso Valimaki caught Matt Calvert with a body check at the blue line, turning the puck over.“He timed it perfect and to be able to keep the puck in the zone, all in one shot. That was a real turning point, too Womens Paul Byron Jersey ,” Giordano said. “Really put them back on their heels and then we kept going.”Just more than a minute after Giordano’s go-ahead goal, Frolik made it a two-goal lead, one-timing Tkachuk’s feed for his sixth goal.The Avalanche got a power-play goal from Landeskog at 18:57 to set up a harrowing finish.Landeskog’s goal first appeared to be Wilson’s second of the game before the Colorado captain was credited with his 11th of the season. Wilson picked up an assist on the play.Mike Smith got the win despite giving up five goals on 26 shots. He improved to 5-4-1.Varlamov, who entered with a 1.62 goals-against average and .950 save percentage, made 31 saves. The five goals he allowed in the third period came on just 11 shots.“Lack of detail and lack of commitment,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “We resorted back to bad habits like circling away from the puck.”Calgary was controlling the game, outshooting the Avs 17-4, when a stray pass from Giordano resulted in Kamenev breaking up the ice on a short-handed 2-on-1 and scoring his first career goal.Less than two minutes later, Dries got his first NHL goal when his rebound banked off the skate of Rasmus Andersson in the slot and went into the net.NOTES: Monahan extended his point streak to five games (two goals, six assists). … Colorado forward Mikko Rantanen has 21 points, tying the franchise record for October set by Joe Sakic in 1996.UP NEXTAvalanche: At the Vancouver Canucks on Friday night.Flames: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night. LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Columbus Blue Jackets opened a three-game Western Conference trip with victories in Colorado and Arizona, yet didn’t feel as though they put forth their best effort.Columbus closed out the trip with one of their most complete games of the season as Cam Atkinson scored two goals less than three minutes apart and Sergei Bobrovsky made 20 saves in a 4-3 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Saturday.“We talked about it before the game … playing one of the best teams in the league, we knew we had to bring it, every single line — especially my line — and I think we did that,” Atkinson said. “I think we played one of our best games of the season, so it’s huge for us.”Moments after using his speed to get past Vegas defenseman Brayden McNabb, collect a rebound off Marc-Andre Fleury and score an equalizer that tied the game at 3-all, Atkinson scored the game-winner on a power play against the league’s top home penalty kill when he fired a shot over Fleury’s arm.“We had a couple of opportunities on the first power play, obviously they scored a short-handed goal Authentic Shea Weber Jersey , which is unacceptable on our part,” said Atkinson, who has a team-leading 31 goals this season, and the second 30-goal campaign of his career. “But when we needed a power play the most, we stepped up big.”Columbus has scored a power-play goal in six of its last seven games (6 of 16). The team has scored on 10 of 31 power-play chances over the last 11 games.Josh Anderson and Artemi Panarin also scored for the Blue Jackets, who are in third place in the Metropolitan Division at 31-20-3 (65 points), two points behind Washington with a game in hand.“I’m not crazy about the city and all the noise out there. But the building, they do it right, and they have a good team, that’s a good team,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said. “Our guys should feel good, they just beat a really good hockey club.”Nate Schmidt, Jon Merrill and Cody Eakin scored for Vegas, while Fleury made 29 saves. The Golden Knights dropped to 16-7-3 at home.Vegas coach Gerard Gallant thought his team might start sluggish in its first home game in 17 days — spanning the All-Star Break, a bye week and a four-game trip — but both teams opened the contest with a lot of speed and plenty of scoring chances.All-Star Seth Jones scored his eighth goal of the season for Columbus and Vegas defenseman Nate Schmidt matched his career high with his fifth goal of the season 32 seconds later.Later, during a penalty kill, Golden Knights first-line wing Reilly Smith streaked into the offensive zone with William Karlsson to his right. But when Karlsson couldn’t convert and his shot caromed off the post, Merrill was there and punched home his second goal of the season to put Vegas in front 2-1.Unfortunately for the Golden Knights, it was the second frame they looked lethargic Victor Mete Jersey , getting just three shots on goal while the Blue Jackets put plenty of pressure on Fleury with nine shots. Columbus outshot Vegas 22-12 through two periods, and 33-23 for the game.“I didn’t expect that second period at all,” Gallant said. “We just didn’t have no jump, it looked like we were skating in quicksand and it caught up to us a little bit.”The Golden Knights escaped the second period tied 2-2, after Panarin caught Fleury behind the goal and fired the puck into an empty net.Gallant tweaked his line-rotation a bit and utilized 10 forwards across three lines in the third period, when Eakin gave Vegas a brief 3-2 lead after racing into the offensive zone, collecting a pretty cross-ice pass from Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and scoring past Bobrovsky with 10:39 left.The Blue Jackets wouldn’t go away, though, and benefited from Atkinson’s late-game heroics.“It was a great game, especially in the second period, step up and play really hard,” Bobrovsky said. “The second period I thought we took over. We trust in each other. You don’t want to be too cocky, too high, because you never know what’s going to happen. You have to stay focused, you have to stay sharp. We obviously have a trust and belief in each other.”NOTES: Blue Jackets center Brandon Dubinsky missed his second consecutive game due to a hip injury and remains one game shy of playing in his 800th career game. … Right wing Cam Atkinson played in his 499th career game, all with Columbus. … The Golden Knights tied a season low for shots on goal in one period, with just three in the second. Vegas also had three in third period on Nov. 21 at Arizona. … Vegas is tied for third in the league with seven short-handed goals.UP NEXTColumbus: Hosts Washington on Tuesday.Vegas: Hosts Arizona on Tuesday.