CALGARY, Alberta (AP) Mikael Backlund, Dennis Gilbert, Nazem Kadri and Blake Coleman scored and the Calgary Flames outlasted the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 on Sunday night.

Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves to help the Flames improve to 15-16-5. Andrew Mangiapane had three assists and Jonathan Huberdeau added an assist to snap a 12-game points drought.

ā€œItā€™s confidence. Just making the plays when theyā€™re there. I cannot complicate it on myself,ā€ Huberdeau said. ā€œThatā€™s what I did tonight. Iā€™ve just got to build on that and do the same thing over and over.ā€

Mangiapane entered the night with a goal and two assists in his previous 12 games.

ā€œItā€™s good for, obviously, my confidence levels,ā€ Mangiapane said. "Just have a good game and I think of late, Iā€™ve been trending in the right direction.ā€

Rasmus Ristolainen, with his first of the season, and Bobby Brink and Egor Zamula scored for Philadelphia and Sam Ersson made 28 saves. The Flyers dropped to 19-12-5, failing to earn points for the first time in their last 10 road games.

ā€œEvery now and again weā€™re going to have games like this,ā€ Ersson said. ā€œItā€™s about finding ways to win games and today we came up short, but I think, as we showed at the end, that we push and we have that mentality that we donā€™t give in and we donā€™t give up. Obviously, a tough loss but some good things to take with us.ā€

There were four goals in the last 5:31, with Kadri beginning the spree to give Calgary a 3-1 lead. With Ersson off for an extra attacker, Brink scored with 3:24 to go.

Coleman scored into an empty net with 2:18 remaining. With Ersson off again, Zamula scored with 1:24 left.

ā€œNo quitting at the end,ā€ Flyers center Sean Couturier said. ā€œToo bad we didnā€™t show up the first two periods.ā€

UP NEXT

Flyers: At Edmonton on Tuesday night.

Flames: At Minnesota on Tuesday night.

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