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CALGARY, Alberta – Ray Emery prefabricated 23 saves to rest amend with Anaheim, Corey commodore scored twice and additional an support and the Ducks moved into sixth locate in the Western Conference and dealt metropolis a crushing blow, fighting the Flames 4-2 on weekday night.

Emery, subscribed in early Feb after recovering from a enarthrosis injury that required surgery terminal April, improved to 6-0-0 for the surging Ducks, winners of heptad of their terminal eight games.

Perry scored his 45th and 46th goals to fortuity a bond with metropolis Bay's Steven Stamkos for the NHL lead.

Anaheim jumped from seventh to sixth place, sextet points aweigh of ninth-place metropolis and Dallas. metropolis remained threesome points behind metropolis for the test playoff spot.

Bobby Ryan and Lubomir Visnovsky also scored for Anaheim.

Jarome Iginla and Mark Giordano scored for Calgary. The Flames hit lost heptad of their terminal nine.

Iginla unsealed the scoring at 2:58 of the prototypal period with his 37th of the season, but Ryan equal it on a noesis endeavor at 8:05 and commodore put the Ducks aweigh with 4:20 mitt on added noesis play.

Calgary had an apparent content disallowed late in the ordinal after Anaheim's Ryan Getzlaf managed to pull the disc out the gain without spotting by the referees or repetition officials.

Visnovsky then prefabricated it 3-1 with 1:09 mitt in the period.

Giordano countered for metropolis with a blow effort with a two-man plus 32 seconds into the third, but the Ducks held off the Flames and commodore complete the scoring with an empty-net goal.

NOTES: Miikka Kiprusoff prefabricated 18 saves for the Flames. He has presented up 10 first-period goals in his terminal fivesome starts. ... The Ducks utilised goalies — Curtis McElhinney, Jonas Hiller, Dan Ellis and Emery — in comprehensive the four-game flavour program for prototypal time. ... The Flames subscribed Suomi netminder Joni Ortio. A sixth-round pick he has been playing with TPS in the Suomi elite league. He module connected Abbotsford in the AHL.

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