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Throwback Thursday: This week in 1989, Joel Otto scores OT winner to advance Calgary Flames past Vancouver

Welcome back to another edition of Throwback Thursday!

This week in 1989, the Calgary Flames beat the Vancouver Canucks in round one of the playoffs in thanks to a Joel Otto overtime winner.

In the end it took an incredible amount of everything Calgary Flames could muster- blood, sweat, tears and, yes, even a little bit of luck. The Flames finally put the stubborn Vancouver Canucks out to playoff pasture with a 4-3 overtime victory Saturday night at the Olympic Saddledome in a pressure-cooker seventh game that featured a little bit of everything head-to-head checking, disputes, deflections but mostly deep-down determination by both teams.