The Vancouver Canucks continued their trend of dominating the season opener, defeating the Calgary Flames 5-2 on Wednesday and starting out 1-0-0 for the fifth consecutive year.
To the surprise of nobody, rookie Elias Pettersson opened the scoring with a snipe off the iron and in. Vancouver would carry the lead into the third period, out-scoring Calgary 4-2 in the final frame to take the season opener.
Vancouver will visit Calgary on Sunday to complete the home and home. There’s obviously a lot to like about the first victory of the season, but one must remember not to get too excited about what they saw in Game 1 of 82.