Plus-three with three points.
It appears that Flames captain Jarome Iginla is in the process of snapping out of his early-season doldrums.
His boss certainly thinks so.
"He’s an effective player when he’s skating and when he’s shooting," said coach Brent Sutter. "He’s getting into those areas and tonight he got into those areas to get quality shots."
Iginla’s goal — his 412th, if you’re keeping track — was vintage.
Buzzing down the right wing, scorching a shot past a helpless netminder.
"That goal, it’s a two-on-one, he goes hard down the wing and makes a great shot," said Sutter. "He did a lot of little things tonight that were very effective. You guys get caught up in goals, goals, goals, but to me, it’s playing a well-rounded game and it’s scoring chances. Tonight was probably the most scoring chances Jarome’s had in a game. He shot the puck and he got into those areas to want the puck and he was involved in the game.
"I look at shots and quality scoring chances he had, and it was definitely his best game."
While he was at it, Sutter chucked around a little more praise.
* To Craig Conroy, for helping kill off the five-on-three (late in the second, early in the third).
"Big draw right off the bat and then there was a battle just inside the zone," said Sutter. "Connie did a great job of getting pucks out of the zone. It was a big kill. A one-goal game at the time, 4-3. I certainly wasn’t happy with the penalties. But the P.K. did a good job at that point in time."
* To Dion Phaneuf, for scoring (and for helping wake up a team in danger of nodding off after 21-plus minutes of shotlessness).
"He got his feet moving," said Sutter. "At the time, when he was coming out of the zone, I thought he was going to head-man the puck because he had a couple guys ahead of him, but he kept going with a full head of speed. It backed their defencemen off. He was able to get a really good scoring opportunity, quality scoring chance between the top of the circle and the blue line. And when Dion has a full head of steam like that with his shot, it gives you an opportunity to score on something like that."