Hanley's 1st goal of the season lifts Flames past Sharks 3-2

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Joel Hanley scored his first goal of the season at 13:26 of the third period to lead the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday night.

Nazem Kadri and Kevin Rooney also had goals for the Flames, who snapped a three-game winless skid and moved to within one point of Vancouver for the second wild-card playoff berth in the Western Conference.

Rookie Dustin Wolf made 27 saves for his 20th victory after going winless in his previous four starts. He improved to 20-11-3.

Macklin Celebrini and Tyler Toffoli scored for San Jose, which is winless in its last five and has dropped six straight on the road. Alexander Georgiev made 33 saves, but lost his sixth straight and has dropped 12 of his last 13 starts.

With the game tied at 1, Rooney gave Calgary the lead with his first goal and point since Dec. 10 at 3:35 of the second.

Toffoli tied it 1:54 into the third, swatting in his own rebound for his team-leading 21st goal.

Sharks: Celebrini’s 18th goal moved him one ahead of Philadelphia’s Matvei Michkov for the NHL's rookie lead. He had a team-leading six shots and put one off the crossbar in the third that would've given the Sharks the lead.

Flames: Kadri has three consecutive 20-goal seasons since signing with Calgary as a free agent. He’s the fourth player in the last 30 years to do so in his first three seasons with the Flames.

With the teams playing four aside, Hanley got a pass from Jonathan Huberdeau and the defenseman ripped a shot over Georgiev's blocker for his first goal since March 23 of last year. He went 31 games without scoring.

Wolf, who grew up in Northern California, improved to 5-1-0 against San Jose.

San Jose is at Winnipeg on Monday night. Calgary is at Washington on Tuesday night.

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San Jose Sharks' Mario Ferraro, left, checks Calgary Flames' Matthew Coronato, right, during first-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' Macklin Celebrini, top right, scores against Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf, left, during first-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' Mario Ferraro, left, is checked by Calgary Flames' Kevin Rooney (21) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' William Eklund (72) checks Calgary Flames' MacKenzie Weegar (52) during first-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' Nico Sturm, right, checks Calgary Flames' Morgan Frost, left, during second-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' Shakir Mukhamadullin, left, checks Calgary Flames' Martin Pospisil, right, during second-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' Henry Thrun, right, checks Calgary Flames' Joel Farabee, left, during second-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks goalie Alexandar Georgiev, left, lets in a goal as Calgary Flames' Jonathan Huberdeau, right, looks on during first-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

San Jose Sharks' Henry Thrun, center, checks Calgary Flames' Jonathan Huberdeau, left, as Sharks goaltender Alexandar Georgiev, right, looks on during second-period NHL hockey game action in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Calgary Flames' Kevin Rooney, center, celebrates after his goal with teammates Brayden Pachal, left, and Ryan Lomberg, right, during second-period NHL hockey game action against the San Jose Sharks in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Calgary Flames' Joel Hanley (44) celebrates his goal with teammates during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Calgary, Alberta, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A former Polish justice minister who faces prosecution in his homeland over alleged abuse of power said Monday that he has been granted asylum in Hungary.

Zbigniew Ziobro was a key figure in the government led by the nationalist conservative Law and Justice party that ran Poland between 2015 and 2023. That administration established political control over key judicial institutions by stacking higher courts with friendly judges and punishing its critics with disciplinary action or assignments to far-away locations.

Current Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government came to power more than two years ago with ambitions to roll back the changes, but efforts to undo them have been blocked by two successive presidents aligned with the national right.

In October, prosecutors requested the lifting of Ziobro's parliamentary immunity to press charges against him. They allege among other things that Ziobro misused a fund for victims of violence, including for the purchase of Israeli Pegasus surveillance software.

Tusk’s party says Law and Justice used Pegasus to spy illegally on political opponents while in power. Ziobro says he acted lawfully.

Hungary, led by nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has hosted several politicians close to Law and Justice while Polish authorities were seeking them.

In a lengthy post on X Monday, Ziobro wrote that he had “decided to accept the asylum granted to me by the government of Hungary due to the political persecution in Poland.”

“I have decided to remain abroad until genuine guarantees of the rule of law are restored in Poland,” he said. “I believe that instead of acquiescing to being silenced and subjected to a torrent of lies — which I would have no opportunity to refute — I can do more by fighting the mounting lawlessness in Poland.”

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Monday that Hungarian authorities have granted asylum to “several” individuals who would face political persecution in Poland, according to his ministry. He declined to specify their names.

In an English-language post on X, Tusk wrote that “the former Minister of Justice(!), Mr. Ziobro, who was the mastermind of the political corruption system, has asked the government of Victor Orbán for political asylum.”

“A logical choice,” he added.

FILE - The leader of the Polish junior coalition partners Zbigniew Ziobro, speaks to reporters alongside in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, file)