Toffoli continues hot start to Flames career in win over Oilers

Calgary held the NHL's top producers off the scoresheet and Flames forward Tyler Toffoli scored twice in a 3-1 win over the visiting Edmonton Oilers on Monday.

Johnny Gaudreau contributed an insurance goal and his 50th assist of the season for the Flames (34-14-7), which continued atop the Pacific Division with a 14th win in their last 16 games.

Jacob Markstrom stopped 27 of 28 shots in front of a season-high 17,246 at the Saddledome. The arena holds 19,289.

Devin Shore replied for Edmonton (30-23-4), which remained two points out of a wild-card berth in the Western Conference.

The NHL's co-leaders in points — Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid — didn't register one Monday.

"You can't expect Brad Malone to come in here and score three goals tonight, right?" Draisaitl said. "That's our job. That's on Connor, that's on me, that's on the top guys that are getting paid to create. Probably didn't do enough of that tonight."

Mikko Koskinen turned away 26 of 29 in the season's first instalment of the Battle of Alberta at the Saddledome.

A Dec. 23 game in Calgary was rescheduled because a COVID-19 outbreak among the Flames.

The Oilers beat the visiting Flames 5-2 on Oct. 16 and 5-2 on Jan. 22. Their regular-season series concludes March 26 in Calgary.

Toffoli got his first taste of the NHL's Battle of Alberta. The Flames acquired the forward from Toronto in a trade with the Montreal Canadiens on Feb. 14.

Toffoli scored his sixth and seventh goals for Calgary since becoming a Flame.

"I was definitely excited not only because of that, but the way the standings are," he said. "It was just a just a really important game for us.

"I thought we did a good job of containing their top guys. Marky made some big saves at the