Calgary Flames

2022 - 12 - 31

Flames 3, Canucks 2: Vancouver's fatal mistakes tell the tale (The Province)

After losing Saturday night to the Calgary Flames 3-2 at the Scotiabank Saddledome, the Vancouver Canucks have now lost five of their last nine games.

For just $3.50 per week, you can get unlimited, ad-lite access to The Vancouver Sun, The Province, National Post and 13 other Canadian news sites. The Flames are now eight points up on Vancouver. The Oilers lost 2-1 Saturday to the Winnipeg Jets. For their part, the Canucks generated four high-danger chances, a reasonable but not great tally. Their guns have gone silent at the worst time — and it wasn’t like they didn’t expect to get opportunities vs. And overall he didn’t think his team battled enough for the puck. The Canucks’ first power play unit was tired and in the middle of a change. Miller turned and mostly just watched the play race away from him. As Oliver Ekman-Larsson pushed up the side board, J.T. The Canucks weathered a fast start by the Flames on Saturday, giving up 10 shots inside the first eight minutes. Article content The Canucks' first power play unit was tired and in the middle of a change.

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Calgary Flames Post-Game: Flames out-battle Canucks, close out ... (Flames Nation)

The Calgary Flames welcomed a divisional rival to town on New Year's Eve as they played the Vancouver Canucks. The Flames got out to a 3-0 lead at one point in ...

The Canucks beat the Flames in a couple puck battles and flung the puck to the point. The Canucks came into the third period with a bit of desperation, and took advantage of a bit of defensive zone looseness from the Flames to inch a little closer. He was engaged, boisterous, and in the thick of the action on basically every single shift. Blake Coleman went in on the forecheck, battling one-on-two, and saw a Canuck break a stick on him (and he also lost his own stick in all the chaos). Tyler Toffoli noticed a gap in the defensive coverage in the neutral zone and fired a shot to Elias Lindholm, sending Lindholm and Dillon Dube in on a two-on-one rush. The Calgary Flames welcomed a divisional rival to town on New Year’s Eve as they played the Vancouver Canucks.

Weegar gives Calgary Flames big lift in 3-2 win over Canucks (Hope Standard)

Elias Lindholm and Blake Coleman also scored for Calgary (18-13-7), which has points in 12 of its last 15 (8-3-4) games. Sheldon Dries and Elias ...

The changes included two new forwards inserted into the lineup in Dries, scratched the past three games, and RW William Lockwood, who was recalled on Friday from Abbotsford (AHL). In 326 games for Calgary, he has 295 points (129 goals, 166 assists). He is now 9-3-1 against Vancouver with a 2.41 goals-against average and .922 save percentage. Vancouver also applied big pressure with the goalie pulled, but couldn’t get a clean shot. Selected fifth overall in the 2013 NHL draft by Carolina, his first 374 games came with the Hurricanes collecting 188 points (64 goals, 124 assists). Dries got one back for Vancouver at 15:28 on a strange one, knocking a puck in from waist-level after it had fluttered into the air on one side of the net and came down on the other side where Dries was the first to spot it.

Weegar celebrates new year with first goal in Flames silks to sink ... (Calgary Sun)

If MacKenzie Weegar felt any rush of relief at finally scoring his first goal in a Calgary Flames uniform, he did an awfully good job hiding it.

“I think we’re on the right track,” Lindholm said. They’re now 8-4-2 against divisional rivals this year and finished off a tough 16-game December with an 8-4-4 record. After a stop-and-start first period, the Flames were at their best in the second. In the end, though, Weegar’s goal would stand as the game-winner. They neither burnt out or faded away and instead responded with two goals that made for some nervous moments for the Calgary crowd in the third period. Article content

'It's going to be the first of many': Weegar finally scores for Flames in ... (Sportsnet.ca)

Hours before the clock turned to 2023, MacKenzie Weegar put an end to one of the longest scoring droughts of his career, notching his first as a Calgary ...

It’s going to be the first of many. It’s good to see him score. “But you know what, it was a good shift. He’s a big part of our team. Weegar and Jonathan Huberdeau were shipped to Calgary in the blockbuster deal sending Matthew Tkachuk the other way this summer. We hemmed them in there (for almost 90 seconds).

Betway Bets of the Day: Vancouver Canucks look to end 2022 in ... (Canucks Army)

Welcome back to Betway Bets of the Day brought to you by NHL betting odds site Betway! A Mark Scheitele hat trick helped propel the Jets to a decisive 4-2 ...

We are up $28.47 on the year. We stakes $30 and returned $35.27. Anytime they’re at plus money, I am taking them to score one. Ad Advertisement The former Canuck Toffoli always bring his A game against Vancouver.