Klapka, Wolf lead Calgary Flames to 4-2 victory over New York Islanders

Calgary Flames' Adam Klapka, top, celebrates his goal with teammates Rasmus Andersson (4), Kevin Bahl (7), and Jonathan Huberdeau, right, during second period NHL hockey action against the New York Islanders, in Calgary, Alta., Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal

CALGARY — Adam Klapka had a goal and an assist for his first multi-point game of the season to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday.

Yegor Sharangovich, Justin Kirkland — with his first of the season — and Yan Kuznetsov also scored for Calgary (21-23-4), which has won three of its last four. Kevin Bahl chipped in with two assists for his first multi-point game since Dec. 5, 2023.

Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Anders Lee scored for New York (26-17-5). The Islanders are 2-2-1 with two games left in their season-long seven-game road trip.

Dustin Wolf had 28 stops to snap his five-game losing streak and improve to 15-19-2.

David Rittich made 15 saves in the loss, falling to 11-6-3.

Up 2-0 midway through the second, the Flames doubled their lead when Kirkland and Kuznetsov scored two minutes apart.

Takeaways

Islanders: Rittich, who broke into the NHL with four seasons in Calgary, has yet to defeat his former team. In six games, he fell to 0-4-2. The 33-year-old Czech was playing his 250th NHL game and came in on a roll, going 8-3-3 with a .920 save percentage over his last 14 starts.

Flames: In four games since sliding into Blake Coleman’s spot on a line with Mikael Backlund and Matt Coronato, Sharangovich has five points (two goals, three assists). Coleman (upper body) remains on injured reserve. While Backlund had his three-game point streak (2-3-5) snapped, Connor Zary extended his to a career-high five games (2-4-6).

Key moment

Just over a minute into the second period, Pageau neatly set up Jonathan Drouin with a cross-ice pass on a 2-on-1 following a Flames turnover, but Wolf acrobatically stretched across to deny him with his right pad. A little more than a minute later at the other end, Klapka deflected in Bahl’s point shot for a 2-0 lead.

Key stat

Rasmus Andersson played amid swirling trade speculation and had an assist, becoming the seventh defenceman in Flames history to record five consecutive 20-assist seasons. He joins Al MacInnis, Gary Suter, Mark Giordano, TJ Brodie, Derek Morris, and Randy Manery.

Up next

Islanders: Visit the Vancouver Canucks on Monday.

Flames: Host the New Jersey Devils on Monday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 17, 2026.

Darren Haynes, The Canadian Press