On almost any other night, Tkachuk's snipe or Markstrom’s perfection would have been a worthy focal point. Instead, as EricFrancis writes, the love-in between the fans and a team off to an unexpected start took centre stage.
Markstrom lifted the fans out of their seats late in the affair when he flashed the same glove that stoned Fox and Ryan Strome earlier to deny Mika Zibanejad in close.
“I thought the atmosphere was great,” said Tkachuk, who drew a roar form the masses when his cheeky smile was shown on the Jumbotron seconds later. Despite outshooting the Rangers 37-22 and outplaying them all night, the Rangers were only down 1-0 after one, staying in the game until Brad Richardson’s first as a Flame midway through the second was followed up two minutes later by Johnny Gaudreau’s first of two.
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