Calgary, Alberta ? Jarome Iginla says he’ll do anything possible to help Calgary win the Stanley Cup, even trade punches with another star. Now the Tampa Bay Lightning will find out if there’s any fight left in them.

Chris Simon put in his own rebound off Iginla’s feed after a period and a half of frantic, physical but scoreless play and Calgary’s fighting Flames took the series lead by beating Tampa Bay, 3-0, in Game 3 Saturday night.

Simon and Shean Donovan scored just over three minutes apart in an uptempo second period after Calgary, playing the first Cup finals game on Canadian ice in 10 years, was held to two shots in the first period.

Iginla scored with 1:32 remaining to seal Calgary’s first final home win since the Flames last won the Cup in 1989 and even fought with the Lightning’s Vincent Lecavalier early in the game.

“I think that fight was huge and really set the tone physically for us,” Simon said. “They’ve got a lot of skill and we know we had to establish a physical presence.”

Iginla insisted he didn’t set out to start a fight, but liked what happened after it.

“We didn’t get a lot of shots in the first period, but we were very physical. That carried into the second,” Iginla said. “The fight is just part of the intensity out there; everybody knows what’s on the line.”

The upstart Flames, out of the playoffs for seven straight seasons until being revived by coach Darryl Sutter, can take a 3-1 series lead by winning Game 4 Monday — but only if Tampa Bay halts its monthlong trend of following a loss with a win.

The Lightning have alternated wins and losses for nine straight games, three short of New Jersey’s 12-game streak in 1988 — a fitting run, too, because Tampa Bay usually has followed a strong game with a weak one. The Lightning evened the series by winning 4-1 in Game 2 following an uninspired 4-1 loss.

Calgary's Chris Simon, center, is joined by teammates, from left, Marcus Nilson, Jarome Iginla, Robyn Regher and Jordan Leopold while celebrating Simon's goal. The Flames blanked the Tampa Bay Lightning, 3-0, in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals to take a lead in the series Saturday night in Calgary.

“That’s the way it’s been all playoffs for us,” coach John Tortorella said. “We need to get the next one.”

Lecavalier understands the dangers of falling behind 3-1 to a team as inspired as the sixth-seeded Flames.

“We have to get back (to playing) like we did the first couple of series,” he said. “I know it’s the finals and it’s tougher, but we definitely have to be more consistent.”

Making the night even worse for Tampa Bay, forward Ruslan Fedotenko was helped off the ice after being slammed into the boards by Robyn Regehr with about six minutes remaining. Fedotenko, who has 10 playoff goals, looked dazed and had a cut right cheekbone.

One trend has quickly taken hold in this surprising matchup of longtime tail-end teams: The first team to one wins.

In all three games, the winning team has scored first and, with both teams sensing how important that first goal would be, the game started at a frenetic pace and stayed that way. For good reason, too; Calgary is 12-1 and Tampa Bay 11-2 when scoring first.

“You always want to get the first goal, and we didn’t get it tonight,” Lecavalier said.