Round one of the 2019-20 Battle of Alberta went to the Calgary Flames. Aside from a couple lapses, the Flames played a pretty complete game en route to a 5-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place.
The Rundown
The Flames opened the scoring early. Like, on the first shift early. Matthew Tkachuk crashed into Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and dislodged the puck, a quick pass later and Andrew Mangiapane tapped the puck past Mikko Koskinen to make it 1-0 Flames.
The lead doubled midway through the period when Mangiapane drove into the Oilers zone, fending off Darnell Nurse, then fed Tkachuk in the slot for a wrister that made it 2-0.