Jarome Iginla

Derek Smith tied it early in the third period and helped set up Mikael Backlund's power-play winner with 9:35 left in the Calgary Flames' 5-3 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night. Jarome Iginla assisted on both goals to finish the game with three assists. Olli Jokinen scored twice for Calgary, the first on a power play early in the first and the second an empty-netter with 32 seconds left. Rene Bourque also scored in the first for Calgary, down 2-0 after Lennart Petrell and Sam Gagner scored for Edmonton in the first 3 minutes.

Semyon Varlamov made 38 saves and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Calgary Flames 4-1 on Friday night to keep their slim playoff hopes alive. Colorado matched San Jose with 88 points, one behind Dallas and Phoenix for the last two playoff spots in the Western Conference. The Avalanche have home games left against Columbus and Nashville. Phoenix, Dallas and San Jose each have four games left. Mark Olver, David Jones, Milan Hejduk and Peter Mueller scored to help Colorado snap a four-game winless streak.

■When, where: Tonight, 7, at TD Garden. ■TV, radio: NESN, WBZ-FM (98.5). ■Goals: Curtis Glencross 16, Jarome Iginla 15, Rene Bourque 13. ■Assists: Olli Jokinen 20, Iginla 17, Alex Tanguay 17. ■Goaltending: Miikka Kiprusoff (17-14-2, 2.47 GAA), Leland Irving (1-0-2, 2.23). ■Head to head: This is the only meeting of the season. ■Miscellany: Bourque was suspended five games by the NHL for elbowing Washington's Nicklas Backstrom in the head Tuesday night . . . Iginla needs one goal for 500 in his career.

Cam Atkinson scored the shootout winner and Steve Mason made 28 saves after coming in for an injured Curtis Sanford as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Calgary Flames 2-1 on Sunday night. Nikita Nikitin scored for Columbus, which was playing on back-to-back nights. The Blue Jackets lost 4-3 Saturday night in Vancouver. Matt Stajan scored for Calgary (34-26-13), which snapped a four-game home winning streak. It was a costly weekend for Calgary's playoff aspirations in the congested Western Conference.

Alex Tanguay and Jarome Iginla had third-period goals to pad Calgary's lead and help stop a three-game losing streak for the Flames with a 5-2 win on Sunday night over the Minnesota Wild. Matt Giordano, Lee Stempniak and T.J. Brodie scored during a furious first period, and Mikka Kiprusoff steadied himself after the early barrage to make 19 saves for the Flames. He improved to 26-15-5 in his career against the Wild. Cal Clutterbuck and Nick Johnson had goals in those first 9 minutes for the Wild, but goalie Niklas Backstrom was pulled for Josh Harding after the Flames took a...

Niklas Hagman scored the deciding goal in the eighth round of a shootout and the Anaheim Ducks beat Calgary 3-2 on Monday night for their 14th straight home victory over the Flames. Bobby Ryan and Matt Beleskey scored less than 2 minutes apart in the first period for the Ducks, who won the tiebreaker by a 3-2 margin. Jonas Hiller made 24 saves. The Ducks haven't lost to the Flames at home since a 5-1 defeat on Jan. 19, 2004 — Calgary's only regulation win in its last 24 visits to Anaheim (1-13-10)

Semyon Varlamov made 38 saves and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Calgary Flames 4-1 on Friday night to keep their slim playoff hopes alive. Colorado matched San Jose with 88 points, one behind Dallas and Phoenix for the last two playoff spots in the Western Conference. The Avalanche have home games left against Columbus and Nashville. Phoenix, Dallas and San Jose each have four games left. Mark Olver, David Jones, Milan Hejduk and Peter Mueller scored to help Colorado snap a four-game winless streak.

CALGARY, Alberta -- All of Canada has been consumed by Flames, and the national obsession with Calgary's overachieving hockey club is about to spread. The sixth-seeded Calgary Flames advanced to the Stanley Cup finals Wednesday night, winning the Western Conference finals in six games over the San Jose Sharks. From the 17th Avenue entertainment district to the streets around the Saddledome, fans partied until dawn, which arrives early up north in Alberta. After missing the playoffs in each of the previous seven seasons, the Flames will open the final round Tuesday in Tampa Bay or...

Marc Bergevin ended a 101-game streak without a goal as the Pittsburgh Penguins rallied from two goals down to tie the New York Islanders, 3-3, last night, halting their NHL-record 14-game home losing streak. Bergevin hadn't scored since Nov. 23, 2002, when the puck deflected to him in the high slot and he beat Garth Snow to the glove side less than two minutes into the third period, knotting the score. Teammate Tom Kostopoulos had scored shorthanded late in the second period, making it 3-2. Pittsburgh is 2-1-1 since losing 18 in a row, although one of the losses came in overtime...

CALGARY, Alberta -- Overtime was Martin Gelinas's time yet again. The forward scored 19:13 into the extra session last night, lifting Calgary to a 1-0 victory over the Detroit Red Wings and sending the sixth-seeded Flames into the conference finals for the first time since 1989. Gelinas eliminated Vancouver when he scored in overtime in Game 7 of the first round. His only other previous playoff goal in overtime won a series for Carolina over Toronto in 2002. This time, he got to a loose rebound in the crease and knocked a shot past sprawled Detroit goalie Curtis Joseph.

Jarome Iginla scored the winner in the second period, giving him a goal in six straight games, and the Calgary Flames beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-1 on Thursday night. Iginla has eight goals and six assists during an eight-game points streak. Sven Baertschi, Matt Stajan and Alex Tanguay also scored for the Flames (34-25-12), who have win five straight to pull within one point of the seventh-place Coyotes (35-26-11) and eighth-place Colorado (38-30-5) in the Western Conference.

Matt Stajan scored 4:20 into overtime, and Jarome Iginla reached 30 goals as the Calgary Flames beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 on Tuesday night in a pivotal Western Conference matchup. In the final minute of overtime, the Flames came in on a 2-on-1 break and executed it perfectly. Blake Comeau sent a pass across to Stajan, who scored his fifth of the season into an open side. Sven Baertschi also scored for the Flames (33-25-12), who have won four straight. Logan Couture scored his 29th and 30th goals for San Jose (34-25-10)

Jarome Iginla scored early and set up Curtis Glencross' go-ahead goal late with a botched shot that became a pass, and the Calgary Flames hung on to beat the Minnesota Wild 4-3 on Sunday for their third straight victory. Glencross has a goal in seven straight games for the Flames, who moved into a tie for eighth place with the Colorado Avalanche in the Western Conference with 76 points. They're 4-1-1 in six games this month, and Iginla has six goals and five assists in that span.

Miikka Kiprusoff made 42 saves to help the Calgary Flames beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-3 on Friday night in a showdown between teams fighting for playoff spots. Kiprusoff improved to 30-19-8, reaching 30 victories for the seventh straight season. Alex Tanguay had a goal and three assists, and Jarome Iginla added a goal and two assists for the Flames. Mark Giordano, Matt Stajan and Curtis Glencross also scored. The Flames picked up five out of a possible six points on a three-game homestand to move into a three-way tie for ninth in the Western Conference...

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.

Loui Eriksson had a short-handed goal and added an assist in regulation, then scored in a shootout in the Dallas Stars' 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night. Jamie Benn scored on Dallas' first attempt in the shootout, and Eriksson connected on the second. Michael Ryder added a power-play goal, and Kari Lehtonen made 36 saves and assisted on Eriksson's goal. The Stars have climbed to seventh in the Western Conference, going 6-0-1 in their last seven games. Curtis Glencross and Jarome Iginla scored for Calgary.

Sergei Kostitsyn scored three goals to lead the Nashville Predators to their third straight victory, 5-3 over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night. Kevin Klein and Matt Halischuk also scored for Nashville. Jarome Iginla, Rene Bourque and Brendan Morrison scored for the Flames, who have lost three straight. Kostitsyn's first goal gave Nashville a 2-1 lead. His second made it 4-1 and he capped the scoring with an empty-net goal. Iginla, stationed in front of the crease, beat goaltender Pekka Rinne with a wrist shot 3:47 into the game.

Jarome Iginla scored the shootout winner and the Calgary Flames earned an important two points with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night. The shootout was tied through two rounds, with Olli Jokinen scoring for Calgary and Alex Burrows replying for Vancouver, which set the stage for Iginla — the Flames' captain and all-time leading scorer. Iginla put the Flames ahead when he faked a shot, drew it around Roberto Luongo and jammed it in while he was falling.

Olli Jokinen capped Calgary's three-goal outburst in the first period and the Flames defeated the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2 Thursday night. The loss was the first for Phoenix at home since falling to Anaheim in late January, and ended a Coyotes run of 11-0-1 in the last 12 games. Phoenix goalie Mike Smith had only one loss in his last 12 games before he was outplayed by Calgary's Miikka Kiprusoff. Kiprusoff made 29 saves. The Flames had lost their last four games. Fighting for playoff position, the Flames made a strong statement with three goals in a span of 3:17 late in the first period.

Ray Whitney scored the lone goal of the shootout Thursday to lead the Phoenix Coyotes to a 4-3 win over the Calgary Flames. Whitney also had a goal and an assist in regulation for the Coyotes, who won their fourth straight and improved to 9-0-1 in their past 10. Shane Doan and former Flames forward Daymond Langkow also scored in regulation for Phoenix. Alex Tanguay had a goal and an assist in the first period for the Flames, who lost their second straight game at home. Matt Stajan and Olli Jokinen also scored.