Western Conference Semifinal Game 4
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Calgary continued to try and lock down Portland as they did to stave off elimination in Game 3. But at 13:20 of the first, Portland's Steve Larmer scored his first goal of the series to give the Pioneers the lead. But less than three minutes into the second, in a grinding matchup, Calle Johansson nailed a slapshot through traffic to knot the score. Tiny Thompson and Sean Burke were both terrific in between the pipes all game long. In the third, the sides had back-to-back power plays on uncharacteristic penalties from Portland's Pierre Turgeon and Calgary's Wayne Gretzky. But neither resulted in a goal and, when the third period ended we found ourselves headed to overtime. There, at the 6:33 mark, Calgary's Owen Nolan took a beautiful feed from Johansson after a seam-splitting pass from Gretzky to hit the back of the net for his fourth goal of the series and send the Calgary crowd into a frenzy as the Stampede had forced a Game 5!
Calgary 2, Portland 1 (overtime) (Series tied 2-2)
