Entering the night in a points-tie with the New Jersey Devils atop the Metropolitan Division, Wednesday's matchup between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames centered around two teams on win streaks, led by hot goaltending.
Few whistles and a quick pace. Both ends had good looks offensively, but the period ended scorelessly.
In fact, the second period would be much the same.
As the first period was clean and featured no time in the sin bin, there would be three penalties in the second, twice Calgary with the infraction.