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Calgary Flames blueliner Tyler Wotherspoon full of excitement

For Tyler Wotherspoon, the beauty of this particular playoff matchup is that they’re all home dates.

During Games 3 and 4 at the Saddledome, the Calgary Flames’ rookie defenceman had 19,000-plus red-clad fans screaming their support.

And if the Burnaby-raised blueliner — a healthy scratch for the first two contests in this first-round meeting with the Canucks — can stay in the Flames’ lineup for Thursday’s Game 5 (8 p.m., CBC/Sportsnet 960 The Fan), he knows he’ll have a personal fan club of family and friends in the seats at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.

“That would be .