Fan expectations for Tuesday afternoon’s match-up between the Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks likely weren’t high. Neither team is playoff bound and the games are merely a formality at this point. The Flames played decently, but they lacked much spark in a 4-2 loss to the Canucks in their final road game of the season.
The rundown
The Flames were okay in the first period. They had some decent looks, but weren’t able to bear down on their challenges. Vancouver scored twice in the period, both times taking advantage of a combination of bounces and a bit of Calgary defensive softness:
- Travis Hamonic jumped on a bouncing puck, in-between Nikita Nesterov and Rasmus Andersson near the Flames net, and fired the puck past Louis Domingue stick-side to make it 1-0.