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Even if Giordano is in the lineup, he won’t be quarterbacking Calgary’s top power-play unit.

The 27-year-old Gustafsson will instead audition in that spot. It’s not unfamiliar territory for the skilled Swede, a regular on the man-advantage for the Chicago Blackhawks over the past pair of campaigns.

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“(Gustafsson) has great deception, and you can see it right away,” said Flames interim coach Geoff Ward after Tuesday’s morning skate in Boston. “I mean, the way he moves across the top of the blue-line … The top play on the power-play is huge, just in terms of what he can do, because he often sets up the flankers. He’ll manipulate the penalty-kill over to one side or create opening that the flankers can exploit. So the fact that he sets it up so easily up top, he’s a huge addition for us. You could see right away in the first couple of reps how easily he moves along the blue-line and the command that he has.

“So we’re going to take a look at him there and see how he is. If practice is any indication, he looks like he’s going to be fine there.”

Gustafsson, acquired in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, is excited to prove his boss right.

He figures his new PP1 pals — forwards Johnny Gaudreau, Elias Lindholm, Sean Monahan and Matthew Tkachuk — will make that relatively easy.

“I’ve played against these guys for a couple of years and they’re great guys,” Gustafsson said. “You have skill. You have a shot mentality. You have the strength in front of the net. It’s going to be fun to be running it up on the blue-line and what I can do is just try to get the puck on the flanks or try to get to the puck to the net, and stuff will happen.”

Gustafsson arrived in Boston at about 10 p.m. ET on Monday.

Forbort, who cost the Flames a conditional fourth-rounder in 2021, caught a red-eye from L.A. and didn’t land until about 7 a.m. He was on the ice with his new teammates four hours later.

“They’re excited to be here, obviously — both guys jumped on planes quickly to be here today with their new team,” Ward said. “And they looked good on the ice this morning, so we’re looking forward to getting them into a game.”

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