THE Kiss Played for the story Thursday and the flames of Calgary played for pride. Pride has won, with Nazem Kadri marking twice and and Morton himself,, Zayne Parekh And Mikael Backlund also marking to give the flames a 5-1 victory In the last match of the NHL regular season.
Taylor WardBeginning in the NHL, obtained Kings' only goal at the end of the third period, long after the result of the result. The goals of Morton and Parekh also came in their first NHL games.
The defeat, the first of the Kings in five games, left them 48 wins and 105 points for the season, corresponding to the team record in the two categories.
However, the Kings will enter their series of series of playoffs in the first round With the EDMONTON Oilers On Monday, as the hottest team in the West Conference, after winning eight of its last 10 games. Match 2 of the seven best series will be played in Los Angeles on Wednesday before the series moved to Edmonton for matches 3 and 4.
The Flames, on the other hand, will miss the playoffs for the third consecutive season after being eliminated earlier in the week in a defeat against the Golden Knights of Vegas. But they did not go quietly against the Kings, taking the lead to stay on Kadri's first goal for two minutes and 15 seconds in the second period.
Morton doubled the head of 6:05 am in the third period, opening the valves of Kadri scoring his 35th goal at the top of the team less than a minute later, followed by the goals of Parekh and Backlund three minutes apart.
Ward got his goal with just over six minutes to play. He scored the first time in five games, the Kings failed to score at least five goals.
The kings rested the top scorer Adrian Kempe and regular goalkeeper Darcy Kuemper as well as center Phillip Danault and winger Trevor MooreThis allowed Ward to become the first son of an NHL player to play for the team. Ward’s father, Dixon, also a winger, appeared in 537 NHL games for six teams, including the Kings, between 1992-2003.
Thursday's match was supposed to be played on January 8 but was postponed because of forest fires in southern California. The Kings used the date postponed to honor the first stakeholders.
