The Calgary Flames fall to the Vancouver Canucks in a shootout, earn sixth loser point of the season.
In hockey, it hardly feels that way.On this evening, their first home-ice appearance in a week, the Flames claimed only one.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“It’s tough when you go three in a row with extra minutes and can’t grab that extra point,” said Flames speedster Dillon Dube, who picked up a pair of assists but fired wide in the shootout. “We’ve gotta bear down. We need these points.
The Flames dug themselves an early hole Wednesday, surrendering a pair of goals within two minutes of the opening faceoff. Canucks captain Bo Horvat fooled his old friend Markstrom with a deft deflection and then Conor Garland picked the top shelf on the short-side.Article content Trevor Lewis put the hosts ahead with a second-period bank-job, bouncing a rebound off Martin’s glove from an impossible angle, but the Canucks answered as Sheldon Dries outhustled Jonathan Huberdeau to create an odd-man rush and finished with a high-glove goal.The Flames were skunked in the shootout, with Huberdeau denied on a deke and Dube and Backlund both missing the net. Andrei Kuzmenko had the lone snipe at the opposite end.
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