The Calgary Flames began their 2022 Young Stars Classic tournament on Friday evening with a game against the Vancouver Canucks. The Flames were pretty decent at times, but they failed to really stitch those good moments together into a good game, dropping a 3-0 decision to the Canucks to kick off their rookie tournament play.
The rundown
The first two periods were pretty even. Shots were 9-8 Vancouver in the opening 20 and 15-12 Vancouver in the middle frame. Both teams had their moments, but both goaltenders were good.
The Flames unravelled a bit in the third period, as some bad habits came back to haunt them,
After killing off an early penalty, the Flames made a bad line change that gave Canucks forward Chase Wouters an eternity to get a good shot on net off the rush.