Adam Klapka | Photo: NHL.com
He was just one assist short of Gordie Howe’s hat trick. The 23-year-old Czech striker, after a slight confusion in the attacking third, sent an elusive shot and opened the scoring of the match, scoring his first goal at the end of the season. And he added a fist exchange.
Adam Klapka helped in the very end of the NHL regular season to win 5:1 over San Jose.
The six-foot-tall Czech started on the wing of the fourth attack of the Calgary Flames and scored for the first time in his sixth start in the NHL when he opened the scoring in the thirteenth minute.
At the beginning of the middle period, Givani Smith challenged Klapka to a fist fight with the score 2:0. The two exchanged a few shots before the Czech player lost his balance during one of the shots and ended up on the ice.
Klapka earned an invitation to the main team a few days ago thanks to his performances in the AHL, in which he leads the productivity of the Calgary Wranglers.
The battle of Calgary kicked up and led by five goals at the half of the game. However, neither Jan Rutta nor Filip Zadina started for San Jose.
Klapka also got into the boxer briefs in the previous duel with Vancouver, specifically with Conor Garland.
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