Gaudreau, Tkachuk both notch their 30th goals of the season as Flames torch Coyotes

Johnny Gaudreau scored his 30th goal and added two assists on Friday to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes.

Michael Carcone and Vladislav Kolyachonok, each with their first NHL goals, replied for Arizona (20-40-4). The Coyotes have lost four straight.

Jacob Markstrom made 16 stops in the win and improved to 30-12-7. He's the first Flames goaltender to win 30 games in a season since Miikka Kiprusoff won 35 games in 2011-12.

Karel Vejmelka had 29 saves for the Coyotes. He falls to 10-25-1.

Tkachuk, Gaudreau, Lindholm (32), and Mangiapane (30) gives the Flames four 30-goal scorers for the first time since 1993-94. It was done that season by Gary Roberts (41), Theoren Fleury (40), Robert Reichel (40), and Joe Nieuwendyk (36).

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After a lacklustre opening 20 minutes for both teams, the Flames erupted for three goals in an eight-minute span to begin the second period.

Thirty-three seconds in, Tkachuk was left uncovered at the side of the net and he one-timed Gaudreau's centering pass.

Three minutes later, Arizona took its first penalty of the game and it only took 15 seconds for the league's third-worst penalty kill to surrender a goal.

A beautiful lightning-quick tick-tack-toe passing sequence that started with Gaudreau to Tkachuk was finished off neatly by Lindholm at 3:35. Tkachuk's two-point night gives him a career-high 78 points.

Gaudreau made it 3-0 at 8:14, sprung in on a 2-on-0 by Nikita Zadorov's pass. Gaudreau decided to not to pass across to Blake Coleman, instead whipping a shot into the top corner.

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