CHICAGO (Ticker) -- Matthew Lombardi single-handedly jump-started the Calgary Flames' offense.
Lombardi recorded his first career hat trick and Dean McAmmond scored twice against his former team as the Flames rolled to a 6-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks.
Calgary entered the second game of a four-game road trip dead last in the NHL with 24 goals. But the Flames scored more than three times for just the second time in 15 games this season and reached six for the first time since March 25, 2002.
Lombardi also had an assist for a career-high four points and leads the team with nine. A 2002 third-round draft pick, he had a power-play goal and an assist as Calgary took a 2-1 lead in the opening period.
Goalless in his previous seven games, Lombardi struck again 6:01 into the second and capped his big night by beating Craig Anderson on a shorthanded breakaway with 7:20 to go in the third.
McAmmond, the Blackhawks' first-round pick in 1991, tallied twice in a three-goal second period and Chris Clark also scored for Calgary, which combined for six goals in its previous four games.
Lombardi had scored 25 goals last season with Saint John of the American Hockey League and amassed 130 points in his final season in juniors. After leading Calgary to its third straight win at the United Center, the 23-year-old center credited his linemates.
"Marty Gelinas and Chris Clark just kept feeding me all night," Lombardi said. "And tonight the bounces went my way. Tommorow night it might be someone else's turn. But it's a great team win."
The Flames jumped on Chicago early in each of the first two periods. They scored twice in a 4:43 span of the opening period against backup goaltender Michael Leighton, then beat him twice in a 66-second span of the second to build a 4-1 cushion.
"It was a good team win for us and it was nice to get all those goals," Lombardi said. "Yeah, I got the puck. One of the guys has got it for me and I'll keep that one."
"That was a good thing for us, to get some goals off some good efforts," McAmmond added. "It's nice to win like that."
Lombardi was involved in three of the first four goals. He opened the scoring at 8:10 of the first period by putting in a rebound of Chuck Kobasew's shot.
Clark made it 2-0 when he finished off an odd-man rush, but rookie Brett McLean halved the deficit for Chicago. But McAmmond started the second-period flurry with a quick wrist shot and Lombardi put a slapper through Leighton's pads.
McAmmond, who had just one point in his first eight games, chased Leighton at 8:59.
With All-Star Jocelyn Thibault sidelined with a sore hip, Leighton made his third straight start. According to coach Brian Sutter, goaltending was the least of the Blackhawks' problems.
"Let's put it this way, our players should all get up and thank him for coming to play tonight, especially a lot of our veteran guys," Sutter said. "They should really thank him for being there because the rest of them didn't show up."
"Some nights, some guys don't have it," defenseman Jon Klemm added. "But I have never seen 20 guys not have it in one night, and things just snowballed right from the start of the game."
Defenseman Steve McCarthy had the other goal for Chicago, which has dropped three straight.
