Kadri scores in 1,000th NHL game as Flames beat Jackets 5-1

Nazem Kadri scored in his 1,000th NHL game and the Calgary Flames beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 on Wednesday night at the Saddledome in Calgary. Calgary built an early lead and received a 42-save performance from goaltender Dustin Wolf as Morgan Frost, Blake Coleman, Adam Klapka and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames.

Calgary struck twice in the first 92 seconds, the tenth-fastest two-goal start in franchise history. Frost opened the scoring at 56 seconds by deflecting a Jonathan Huberdeau shot, extending Huberdeau's point streak to six games. On the next shift Coleman converted his team-leading sixth goal. Columbus responded five minutes later when Kirill Marchenko scored shorthanded, the Blue Jackets' first shorthanded goal of the season and Marchenko's first career shorthanded tally.

With the Flames up 2-1 midway through the second period, Joel Farabee set up Kadri on a 2-on-1 with a saucer pass that Kadri tucked inside the near post for his fourth goal of the season. Kadri became the 407th player in NHL history to play 1,000 games and the 61st to score in his 1,000th game. He is the 13th player to reach 1,000 games in a Flames uniform and only the second to...