Calgary Flames Nazem Kadri is playing his best hockey of the season just in time for his former Toronto Maple Leafs to come calling

Kadri is riding a season-best seven-game point streak as the Flames prepare to face the suddenly struggling Maple Leafs

With his former team — and hometown club — hitting the Stampede City, Nazem Kadri is rolling.

While a few other Calgary Flames skaters have been stepping into the limelight — Blake Coleman, Yegor Sharangovich, etc. — Kadri has quietly racked up five goals and 10 points in a season-best seven-game point streak.

As the Flames prepare to put their four-game winning streak on the line against the suddenly struggling Toronto Maple Leafs, Kadri is coming off a one-goal, one-assist performance in Tuesday’s 3-2 comeback overtime win over the Arizona Coyotes that kicked off a six-game homestand in style.

“We’re fighting to make the big dance. Every single game is magnified for us,” said Kadri, who is second on the team with 36 points and netted 15 goals. “We’re trying to show that desperation early. We’re coming together, rallying as a team, and that’s a great sign.”

Kadri had a rough start to the season, scoring only two goals in the first 14 games and was a minus-12 at that point.

Now, on top of his plus-2 rating, he’s the player the Flames expected when signed to a seven-year, $49-million contract in the summer of 2022.

On top of the offensive production, Kadri has scored seven goals in the last 10 games, he has been paramount in guiding the pair of rookie wingers who have been flanking him since November: Connor Zary and Martin Pospisil.

Kadri’s game-tying goal against the Coyotes that erased a 2-0 deficit was a prime example of the kids listening. Pospisil drove down the wing after taking a cross-ice pass to start the rush and raced around a defender before sliding a pass to the net for Kadri to tap home.

“Always what I’m telling him, ‘When I get the puck, take off, I’ll find you,’ and that’s exactly what he did,” Kadri said of the tally. “I had a feeling he was going to centre it and I just tried to drive as hard as I can to the net.”

Up next now is the Maple Leafs, who arrive in Calgary on a four-game slide.

And while Toronto has blown a lead in all those losses — three of them in which they had edge of two or more — the Flames have become the comeback kings, with seven victories collected when trailing after two periods.

“We’ve got that confidence,” Kadri said. “We’ve done it before and been doing it all year.”