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Friday’s game at New Jersey wasn’t perfect, but they managed to dispatch them 4-3 in overtime.

Based on their turnaround, Sunday’s loss didn’t feel as catastrophic as their skid before the all-star break.

“When you get the whole team playing well, I feel like in this locker-room, we can beat anybody in this league,” Johnson said. “You saw that against the Rangers, as well. We’re in games, we’re playing well, we limit chances, it’s a game. Where when we weren’t playing as well, it wasn’t even close.”

The rule when it comes to Calgary’s recent approach to their goalies has been, win and you’re in. So, despite the fact Sunday’s loss wasn’t 100 per cent to blame on Elliott, the result wasn’t there, which means Glen Gulutzan will hand the ball to Johnson.

“He’ll come in,” Gulutzan said following the team’s skate at Pittsburgh. “He had a good day of practice (Monday) and we wanted to tell him early so he could have a good day of practice.”

And that means he’ll face one of the best players in the world as he and the Flames get set to square off against one of the Eastern Conference’s top teams (5 p.m., Sportsnet West, Sportsnet 960 The Fan).

Johnson (16-12-0-1, 2.50 goals-against average, .913 save percentage) hasn’t played since allowing five goals on 20 shots in a 5-1 loss on Jan. 24.

But over that span of watching the last four games instead of playing, he claims his focus hasn’t changed.

“Over the last three or four games, we’ve seen that when we play good hockey, what happens statistically for a goalie and what happens as a team, too,” Johnson said. “We know how we have to play to win hockey games and we know how we should play to get results.