Dustin Wolf smooched the crossbar.

And then Nazem Kadri sealed the win at the other end of the ice.

The Calgary Flames capped a dramatic comeback Wednesday when Kadri sniped in the eighth round of the breakaway competition, with the road team rallying from three down to escape with a 4-3 shootout victory in their season-opener against the arch-rival Oilers in Edmonton.

“Actually, Kads … He looked back and said, ‘Can I have this, please?’ ” Flames bench boss Ryan Huska revealed during his post-game scrum at Rogers Place. “So I’m glad we went with him instead of choosing somebody else at that moment.”

Good call, coach.

In 40-some years of the NHL’s Battle of Alberta, this marks just the second time that the Flames have fallen behind by a hat-trick and still scratched back to claim two

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