, which moved within one point of Tampa Bay for first place in the Atlantic Division and Eastern Conference. Boston has two games in hand. Matthew Tkachuk scored for the Flames (30-21-9), who fell to 1-3-4 in their last eight home games. With the teams meeting for the second time in six days, Calgary was territorially outplayed by a wide margin in the first period but Rittich kept the Flames in it. Calgary tied it 1-all at 5:28 of the second, striking on the power play. Sean Monahan's shot was stopped by Tuukka Rask, but as the puck lied at the feet of Zdeno Chara in the crease, Tkachuk knocked in his 22nd goal. Tkachuk is on a tear with 14 goals in his last 22 games. Rittich was starting his fourth game in a row, with veteran Mike Smith (lower body) still sidelined. It was a nice bounce-back effort from Rittich. He was pulled Saturday night after giving up four goals on 15 shots. The 25-year-old Czech was especially sharp in keeping the score even at 1. A minute after Calgary tied it, Rittich slid across the crease to get a glove on Marchand's backhand out of midair after he was set up by Patrice Bergeron. Late in the second, Rittich stabbed out his glove to rob Ryan Spooner on a breakaway. In the third, the goalie stared down Pastrnak on a breakaway and acrobatically got the toe of his left pad on a dangerous chance. Rittich finished with 30 stops but fell to 6-3-3. Rask was also coming off a shortened outing in his previous start, pulled after giving up four goals on eight shots in the first period against Vancouver. Rask made 28 saves to improve to 24-10-4. Boston struck first at 5:59 when Michael Frolik coughed up the puck along the sideboards in his own end and Pastrnak pounced on it, quickly firing a shot past Rittich on his blocker side. NOTES: Flames D Travis Hamonic played in his 500th career game. ... Calgary LW Morgan Klimchuk, drafted in 2013, made his NHL debut on a line with C Matt Stajan and RW Curtis Lazar. Every player selected in the first round of that draft has now played an NHL game. ... The Bruins improved to 9-1-3 in their last 13 games against Calgary. ... Boston is 23-1-5 when scoring first. UP NEXTBruins: Tuesday night at Edmonton. Flames: Wednesday night at Vegas.---More NHL hockey: https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey)
Time: 4:00 PM EST Venue: Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, Canada, T2G 2W1 / CALGARY, Alberta -- For the second time in less than a week, Dougie Hamilton will suit up for the Calgary Flames against the team that selected him 11th overall in the 2011 NHL Draft. After Calgary fell 5-2 in Boston on Tuesday, Hamilton and the Flames (31-21-8) hope to bounce back against the Bruins (35-13-8) with a better result Monday afternoon when the teams meet for a rematch at the Scotiabank Saddledome." We challenged our group after that Boston game," said Calgary coach Glen Gulutzan, whose team responded by skating to a 4-3 road victory over the Nashville Predators two nights later. "We felt we played 35 good minutes against (the Bruins) ... but that's not enough against a good team. We challenged our guys then to go 60 minutes against a really good team in Nashville and they did it and we came out of there." Our guys know there's no secret here. If you're going to beat a good team, you've got to play 60 minutes, so that's an easy one for us (on Monday) to put in our heads." The Flames also have their sights set on rebounding from a disappointing 6-3 loss to the visiting Florida Panthers on Saturday that dropped their record on home ice below .500 (13-14-3). After Hamilton scored all three goals against the Panthers for his first NHL hat trick in his 400th career game, he will be looking to build on that momentum against his former team." It's, I guess, one of those games that you know is coming up and you're aware of it coming on the calendar," said the 24-year-old defenseman, who played his first 178 NHL games for the Bruins before being acquired by the Flames in June 2015 for a trio of draft picks (one in the first round and two in the second)." But it's been a while now, I think I've ... played more games in Calgary now, so it felt a little weird going back there this time and didn't quite feel like home, whereas it used to. So it's kind of changed as the years go by, but (I still) know some of the guys now and just try to shut them down." After beating the Flames, the Bruins had three days off before losing 6-1 to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday to kick off a five-game road trip." We were getting away from what's been good to us basically," summed up center Patrice Bergeron, who scored twice against the Flames before being blanked by the Canucks. "Our defensive zone (coverage) has been lacking and the results showed for it." At some point, it's going to bite you and it did (on Saturday). When you get down by three, four goals, it's not easy to come back." During an afternoon practice in Calgary on Sunday, Boston coach Bruce Cassidy stressed that the Bruins need to defend better if they hope to return to the form that saw them win six of seven games to start February." Bad habits have been creeping in and we want to make sure we address it," Cassidy said. "It's been a few games now where we've been loose and you're not going very far if you're loose. You'll win some games, but we want to get back to being a tighter, better defensive team." After facing the Flames, the Bruins head north to take on the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night." We play (Monday), we play Tuesday, so we've got to be careful," said Cassidy, while noting he plans to start goalie Tuukka Rask in Calgary before going with Anton Khudobin between the pipes in Edmonton.
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