Klapka, Wolf lead Calgary Flames to 4-2 victory over New York Islanders
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CALGARY –
Adam Klapka had a goal and an assist for his first multi-point game of the season to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday.
Yegor Sharangovich, Justin Kirkland — with his first of the season — and Yan Kuznetsov also scored for Calgary (21-23-4), which has won three of its last four. Kevin Bahl chipped in with two assists for his first multi-point game since Dec. 5, 2023.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Anders Lee scored for New York (26-17-5). The Islanders are 2-2-1 with two games left in their season-long seven-game road trip.
Dustin Wolf had 28 stops to snap his five-game losing streak and improve to 15-19-2.
David Rittich made 15 saves in the loss, falling to 11-6-3.
Up 2-0 midway through the second, the Flames doubled their lead when Kirkland and Kuznetsov scored two minutes apart.
Takeaways
Islanders: Rittich, who broke into the NHL with four seasons in Calgary, has yet to defeat his former team. In six games, he fell to 0-4-2. The 33-year-old Czech was playing his 250th NHL game and came in on a roll, going 8-3-3 with a .920 save percentage over his last 14 starts.
Flames: In four games since sliding into Blake Coleman’s spot on a line with Mikael Backlund and Matt Coronato, Sharangovich has five points (two goals, three assists). Coleman (upper body) remains on injured reserve. While Backlund had his three-game point streak (2-3-5) snapped, Connor Zary extended his to a career-high five games (2-4-6).
Key moment
Just over a minute into the second period, Pageau neatly set up Jonathan Drouin with a cross-ice pass on a 2-on-1 following a Flames turnover, but Wolf acrobatically stretched across to deny him with his right pad. A little more than a minute later at the other end, Klapka deflected in Bahl’s point shot for a 2-0 lead.
Key stat
Rasmus Andersson played amid swirling trade speculation and had an assist, becoming the seventh defenceman in Flames history to record five consecutive 20-assist seasons. He joins Al MacInnis, Gary Suter, Mark Giordano, TJ Brodie, Derek Morris, and Randy Manery.
Up next
Islanders: Visit the Vancouver Canucks on Monday.
Flames: Host the New Jersey Devils on Monday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 17, 2026.