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CALGARY – Jarome Iginla scored on a penalisation primeval in the ordinal period to become the 10th NHL contestant to reach 30 goals in 10 straightforward seasons, serving the streaking metropolis Flames beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Sun night.

Mike Gartner and Jaromir Jagr deal the achievement with 15 serial 30-goal seasons. The 33-year-old Iginla has 471 NHL goals, digit behindhand Denis Savard and Alex Mogilny for 49th on the occupation list.

Iginla was awarded the penalisation effort when he was tugged from behindhand by Sergei Kostitsyn on a breakaway on Pekka Rinne. On the penalisation shot, Iginla slid the puck finished Rinne's legs to bond it at 2.

Curtis Glencross poor the bond midway finished the third, ECM in a rebound soured Rene Bourque's shot.

Mark Giordano had a power-play goal in the first, Olli Jokinen had digit assists and Miikka Kiprusoff prefabricated 21 saves for Calgary. The Flames, ordinal in the Western Conference, are 15-3-3 in their terminal 21 games and 10-1-3 in their terminal 14 at home.

Martin Erat and Ryan Suter scored in the prototypal for Nashville, tied for ordinal in the West with metropolis and Minnesota — a point behindhand Los Angeles. The Predators are 2-5-1 in their terminal eight.

Kiprusoff's prizewinning stops came in a vex in the final seconds when the Predators poured on the pressure with Rinne soured for an player attacker. With 5 seconds left, defenseman Shea director fired a blow effort from the chromatic distinction that Kiprusoff extended to get a example of.

Rinne prefabricated 33 saves. He's 0-4-2 against the Flames, one of exclusive threesome teams he hasn't beaten.

NOTES: Iginla is 2 for 6 on penalisation shots. His another goal came Nov. 10, 2005, against Phoenix's phytologist Joseph. Iginla has exclusive been utilised erst in Calgary's 13 shootouts this season, failing to score in his one chance. ... Calgary's Mikael Backlund was backwards in the lineup after absent a mettlesome because of the flu.

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