With one of the heaviest shots in the league, there's many that think Stone should unload that cannon more often.
He did that early against the Ducks, making his presence felt with three big point blasts, along with some hefty hits.
And with his team down a goal in the first period and badly needing a shot in the arm - a bit of a morale booster - he delivered.
His fourth big blast - from way out near the centre of the blueline - blew by a partially screened Gibson, top shelf, with 3:28 to play in the middle stanza.
It was Stone first's goal since March 24, 2018 when he tallied against the Sharks.
And it helped propel the Flames to a much-needed 2-1 victory.
"It felt good to contribute," he said afterwards. "You get in there and get rewarded, it was nice."
Mikael Backlund finished off a beautiful two-on-one from Matthew Tkachuk in the third period for the other tally, Cam Talbot also having a stellar night in the pipes making 29 stops.
"I thought everyone dug in," head coach Bill Peters commented. "I thought we needed a response from the game we had last night and we found a way to do that."
The Flames talked about getting out to a quick start against the Kings Saturday at the Staples Centre.
That didn't happen.
The final result: a 4-1 loss that snapped their two-game winning streak.
If it's possible, then, for something to be doubly important, that quick start was deemed paramount by the players heading into Anaheim to face the Ducks and try and salvage some points from the quick back-to-back California road swing.
They came out and did that, generating some great chances in the opening 20 minutes combined with much stingier defensive play:
Coming off a game where it seemed they spent half their time in the penalty box, the Flames were whistled just once in the first, with Jankowski sent off for tripping just past the midway point.
On the ensuing Ducks powerplay, Cam Talbot - who came on in relief of David Rittich and played the third period against the Kings - made his biggest stop of the first, coming across to get a piece of a Sam Steele one-timer that bounced off his catching glove and up his arm and over the net.
The Flames actually led 11-9 in shots at the end of the period.
While they started slow in the first against the Kings, the second period was what ultimately doomed them against LA. Jeff Carter scored the first of three goals for the Kings in the frame just 18 second in, a dirty one that went off the skate of Mark Giordano.
Just 12 seconds into the second Sunday night, in what looked like much unwanted Deja Vu, the Ducks struck, though a much prettier tally with Josh Manson sending a drop pass to Hampus Lindholm who found Jakob Silfverberg on the left-wing side, already cocked for a one-timer blast that beat Talbot short-side high as he tried to come across the net.
From there, the second period was a bit of a track meet with great chances and more big saves at both ends of the ice.
Austin Czarnik just missed getting his stick on a tip attempt off a great feed from Travis Hamonic, who showed patience to suck a defender to him and not rush the play.
On an ensuing 3-on-2 the other way by the Ducks, Talbot came up huge with another stop at a pivotal point of the frame.
Gaudreau later would later thread a long-distance cross-ice pass through two Ducks defender and right onto the stick of Giordano, but he couldn't beat Gibson.
Then came the Stone-cold rocket.
