Flames clinch top spot in Pacific Division after catching fire late in win over Stars

Matthew Tkachuk scored his 40th goal and recorded his 100th point and Chris Tanev notched the game-winner as the Calgary Flames clinched first place in the Pacific Division on Thursday with a 4-2 victory over the Dallas Stars in Calgary.

It's the Flames' eighth division title in franchise history, but just the third in the last 27 years.

Noah Hanifin and Andrew Mangiapane, into an empty net, also scored for Calgary (48-20-10), which is 8-1-1 in its last 10 games.

Jason Robertson and Luke Glendening scored for Dallas (43-30-5). The Stars lost all three games on their Western Canada road trip.

The Stars, who are one of the teams fighting for a wild-card spot, will play their final four games at the American Airlines Center. Dallas will entertain the Seattle Kraken on Saturday.

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Dallas is precariously perched in the second wild-card spot, two points behind Nashville and two points up on Vegas. The Predators have a game in hand on the Stars.

Jacob Markstrom got the win for the Flames, making 21 saves to improve to 37-15-8.

Jake Oettinger, the busier of the two goalies, had 33 stops. He fell to 27-15-1.

But the Stars answered back five minutes later. Fredrik Karlstrom was stopped on a partial breakaway, but in making the save, Markstrom's momentum carried him to out of the crease. Glendening was right there to deposit the rebound into the vacant net.

Karlstrom's first NHL point came in his first career game. Inserting the Stars' 2016 third-round pick into the lineup was one of a handful of tweaks made by coach Rick Bowness after a 5-2 loss in Edmonton on Wednesday.

Tanev's go-ahead goal came at 13:05 on a point shot that deflected in off the leg of