Steven Stamkos tallied to collect his 1,200th career point while both Reid Schaefer and Ozzy Wiesblatt scored their first career goals as the host Nashville Predators trounced the Calgary Flames 5-1 on Tuesday.
Michael Bunting netted one goal and one assist and Jonathan Marchessault added a goal for the Predators, who have won three of four games.
Goaltender Juuse Saros made 27 saves and Nicolas Hague posted a pair of assists.
Morgan Frost replied with a late goal for Calgary.
Starting goalie Devin Cooley stopped 12 of 16 shots for Calgary before being pulled after two periods. Dustin Wolf made 11 saves in mop-up duty for the club that was pushed down to the bottom of the league standings.
The Predators were the better team from the drop of the puck and were rewarded when Schaefer, skating in his third NHL game, opened the scoring with a rebound tally at 6:24 of the clash.
Stamkos doubled the lead with a milestone marker of his own, converting a tap-in tally set up during an odd-man rush at 5:04 of the second period to become the 53rd player in league history to reach the 1,200-point mark. It was his 589th career goal.
Marchessault extended the lead at 14:25 of the middle frame with a rocket of a shot through a screen.
Wiesblatt made his 28th career game even more memorable by scoring against his hometown team 67 seconds later, burying the puck off a short feed to finish a rush.
Bunting made it a 5-0 game with a redirect at 2:59 of the third period.
Frost spoiled Saros’s bid for his first shutout of the season with a power-play marker at 13:39 of the final frame. It snapped the team’s goal drought at 117 minutes and 35 seconds.
–Field Level Media
