Flames 5, Canadiens 4

2011-12 Game No. 67; Home Game No. 32

Flames Record: 30-25-12

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CALGARYFLAMES.COM 3 STARS

1st STAR JAROME IGINLA RIGHT WING - CGY GOALS: 2 | ASST: 0 | SHOTS: 4 | +/-: +1 TOI: 22:32 | SHIFTS: 26 VIDEO ›

2nd STAR CURTIS GLENCROSS LEFT WING - CGY GOALS: 1 | ASST: 2 | SHOTS: 3 | +/-: +2 TOI: 21:06 | SHIFTS: 27 VIDEO ›

3rd STAR MARK GIORDANO DEFENCE - CGY GOALS: 1 | ASST: 1 | SHOTS: 1 | +/-: +2 TOI: 21:05 | SHIFTS: 26 VIDEO ›

CALGARY, AB -- Jarome Iginla scored his team-leading 26th and 27th goals and the Calgary Flames earned a 5-4 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.

Iginla's second goal of the night with 1:18 left in the second period gave Calgary a 4-2 lead heading into the third period.

Skating down the wing, the Flames' captain failed to get a shot away while being defended by Josh Gorges, but he carried the puck behind the Canadiens net and tucked the shot inside the near goal post before goaltender Carey Price could get across.

Calgary remains 11th in the Western Conference.

Price had only himself to blame when Curtis Glencross scored the eventual game-winner at 7:16 of the third period. Price went behind the net and on his attempted backhand clear, he put the puck right on the stick of Glencross, who scored his 23rd goal into the empty net to make it 5-2.

Glencross has scored in five straight games and is one goal away from his career high, set last season.

David Moss and Mark Giordano also scored for Calgary. The Flames ended a five-game winless skid at home.

Max Pacioretty had two goals, Tomas Plekanec and Lars Eller scored for Montreal. The Canadiens, kicking off a four-game road trip, have lost seven of their past eight.

Despite trailing by three goals in the third period, Montreal made a major rally.

Eller's shot deflected off a Flames player's skate and past Miikka Kiprusoff at 8:57 to make it 5-3.

Pacioretty then scored from a scramble to cut the lead to one at 12:06, setting up a harrowing final eight minutes.

Despite being outplayed to that point, Montreal tied the game 2-2 at 9:28 of the second period when Pacioretty's wrist shot from a sharp angle went in off Kiprusoff's glove.

Calgary regained the lead at 13:44 when Giordano sent a slap shot past Price, high on the glove side.

Calgary dominated the first period and was four seconds away from taking a 2-0 lead to the intermission before Plekanec was set up by a slick no-look backhand pass by Eller and scored into an empty net.

The late power-play goal was one of the lone first-period highlights for Montreal, which was outshot 18-9.

The Flames opened the scoring for the ninth game in a row when Moss deflected Giordano's shot past Price at 10:06. The goal came just seconds after Glencross was stopped in-close after breaking through the Canadiens defense and getting a chance.

Just over two minutes later, Matt Stajan made a smart play to chip the puck off the boards to Iginla, who drove to the net off the wing and tucked a close-in shot behind Price.

Stajan, normally the team's fourth line center, was on the Flames' top line Tuesday night due to the upper body injury suffered by former Canadien Mike Cammalleri in Sunday's loss to Dallas.

Cammalleri was traded by Montreal to Calgary on Jan. 12 for Rene Bourque. In his first game against his former team, Bourque was a non-factor with no points, no shots, and finishing a minus-2.

The final shots were 34-28 for the Flames, the first time in 15 games Calgary has outshot its opponent.

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PHOTO OF THE GAME	BY THE NUMBERS
	STAT OF THE NIGHT Three Flames forwards who rarely take faceoffs, Tim Jackman, Tom Kostopoulos and Alex Tanguay all went one-for-one in the circle. FLAMES LEADERS Icetime -- Bouwmeester (25:55) Shots -- Sarich, Jokinen, Iginla (4) Hits -- Sarich, Desbiens, Ignila (2) Blocks -- Hannan, Smith (3) Takeaways -- Tanguay, Giordano (2) Faceoff Wins -- Jokinen (12, 67%)

TWEET OF THE NIGHT: ‏ @kevdale1 1 goal away from his career high. Now imagine if @NHLFlames #Scoreface hadn't missed half the season with injury? #goGlenX

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FLAMES LINEUP VS. MONTREAL
FORWARD LINES
Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Alex Tanguay	Matt Stajan	Jarome Iginla
Curtis Glencross	Olli Jokinen	David Moss
Tom Kostopoulos	Roman Horak	Tim Jackman
Guillaume Desbiens	Krys Kolanos	Greg Nemisz

DEFENCE PAIRINGS
Left Defence	Right Defence
Derek Smith	Jay Bouwmeester
Mark Giordano	Scott Hannan
TJ Brodie	Cory Sarich
Goaltenders: Miikka Kiprusoff, Henrik Karlsson Starting Lineup: Kiprusoff, Smith, Bouwmeester, Iginla, Stajan, Tanguay

POWERPLAY UNITS
FORWARD LINES
Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Alex Tanguay	Olli Jokinen	Jarome Iginla
Curtis Glencross	Matt Stajan	David Moss

POINT MEN
Left Point	Right Point
Mark Giordano	TJ Brodie

PENALTY KILL UNITS
FORWARD UNITS
Forward	Forward
Tom Kostopoulos	Matt Stajan
Curtis Glencross	David Moss

DEFENCE PAIRINGS
Left Defence	Right Defence
Jay Bouwmeester	Derek Smith
Mark Giordano	Scott Hannan