"Ian White's right eyebrow was as bloody-red as his Flames sweater after taking a wild shot in the kisser by Dustin Penner that somehow ended up in the Calgary net, but in the end, it was Penner and the Edmonton Oilers who were left to face the music Saturday. "You take one in the face and at the least you're hoping for a blocked shot (on the stats sheet), then I'm down on my knees and the puck's in the net," said White with a chuckle, who could afford to laugh off the insult to *injury after leaving a trail of blood to the dressing room following the Flames rally for a hotly contested 5-3 victory over the Oilers. Calgary captain Jarome Iginla, who had eight shots, got his first goal, first point and obvious game-winner on a Flames power play 7-1/2 minutes into the third during an 18-shot blitz on Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin. It came three minutes after winger Niklas Hagman had squeezed one past the overworked Khabibulin, who faced 36 shots over the final 40 minutes. "Oiler Hockey," said coach Tom Renney, who knows he's climbed on a roller coaster for a ride with this young team that is up and down, now 2-2 after winning their first two games. "We have to learn to manage the puck in a more mature way …" The Oilers were lucky to be up 3-2 heading to the final period. Magnus Paajarvi got his first NHL goal after Penner's wild one and an early-game Ales Hemsky tuck past an out-of-position Miikka Kiprusoff after a miscue by White, on which Paajarvi assisted. Alex Tanguay, who also came into the game with a lot of heat and no points, added his second goal of the night with 0.2 seconds left. Tanguay had earlier scored on a breakaway, while Brendan Morrison had the other on Khabibulin, who was on the bench in the dying seconds as Oilers coach offered up a taste of the future by throwing out Paajarvi, Jordan Eberle and Taylor Hall to try and send it to overtime or a shootout. Managing young expectations? "Exactly what it was," said Renney. "That was huge, getting that confidence from the coach," said Paajarvi. "At this point in time you have to bite your tongue and the learning curve does involve putting these kids in these situations. I thought Paajarvi was pretty good. He had an influence on the game, no question, but getting the pucks deep...this is the NHL and there's 3000 feet less in North America than across the pond. We, as a team, have to make sure that pucks get to places where if we can't do something with it, neither can they. Magnus wasn't alone in that regard."" http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/hockey/edmonton-oilers/Oilers lose Flames/3683026/story.html
