Flames beat Kings 3-2 in shootout to extend win streak to four games

By Canadian Press on March 24, 2026.

CALGARY — Yegor Sharangovich scored in the fourth round of the shootout to lead the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 NHL victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.

Olli Maatta and Zayne Parekh, each with their first goals of the season, scored in regulation time for the Flames (30-34-7), who have won four games in a row for the first time this season.

Quinton Byfield scored both goals for Los Angeles (28-25-18), which has points in seven of their last nine (3-2-4), but just three victories. They have dropped four straight.

With the loss the Kings fall three points back of the Nashville Predators for the final wild-card berth in the Western Conference.

Dustin Wolf, who had 23 stops, improves to 21-25-3.

Darcy Kuemper made 21 saves for the Kings. He falls to 17-13-13.

Calgary tied the game 1-1 at 14:50 of the second period when Ryan Strome and Victor Olofsson combined to set up Maatta as the three veterans the Flames added at the trade deadline, combined to get Calgary on the scoreboard.

Olofsson was part of the Nazem Kadri deal with Colorado, Maatta came over from Utah in the MacKenzie Weegar trade, and Strome was picked up from Anaheim for a seventh-round pick, to replace Kadri at centre.

Maatta has six points (one goal, five assists) in 10 games with Calgary after recording just a single assist in 22 games with the Mammoth.

Byfield’s second of the night 17 seconds into the third period restored the Kings’ lead, but Parekh tied it with a power-play goal at 13:02.

After overtime solved nothing and after Morgan Frost and Artemi Panarin exchanged goals in the first three rounds of the shootout, Sharangovich’s winner came when he mishandled the puck but it slipped through Kuemper’s pads.

TAKEAWAYS

Kings: Los Angeles played in its NHL-leading 28th overtime game. … Byfield has four goals in his last four games. … Panarin’s six-game point streak (four goals, five assists) came to an end. … Adrian Kempe played in his 700th NHL game.

Flames: Wolf improves to 4-1-0 all-time against the Kings. … Veteran forward Ryan Lomberg was reinserted into the lineup in place of recent NCAA signing Tyson Gross, who made his NHL debut on Sunday. … Calgary has won seven straight at home against the Kings dating back to 2022.

KEY MOMENT

Down 2-1 with less than eight minutes to go in the third period, Calgary got a two-man advantage when Blake Coleman was tripped by Cody Ceci with 25 seconds left on a one-man advantage. On the 5-on-3, Parekh took a pass from Matt Coronato and beat Kuemper for his second NHL goal and first this season in 26 games.

KEY STAT

It’s Calgary’s first four-game winning streak since the team closed out last season by winning the final four games.

UP NEXT

Kings: Visit the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday.

Flames: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 24, 2026.

Darren Haynes, The Canadian Press