Niklas Backstrom was the story in tonights affair between the Canucks and Flames. Vancouver clearly had the upper hand all night but great goaltending kept them in the game.
The Flames opened the scoring early in the first as Rem Murray potted his second of the year. Calgary would hold a 9-6 shot advantage.
In the second the game would get nasty as Darryl Sydor was assessed a 5 and a match penalty for a gutless spearing job. On the play Rem Murray also took a minor for roughing after the play. The league will be reviewing the spearing incident immediately. It took Vancouver just 25 seconds to score on the 5 on 3 as Vaclav Prospal was found at the side of the net for the pretty tic tac toe. From then on it was the Backstrom show. He turned away shot after shot. The period ended tied 1-1 after 2.
In the third the Canucks were unable to dent the twine despite outshooting the Flames 11-6.
Overtime was much the same as the Canucks outshot the Flames 5-0.
Star # 1 Niklas Backstrom
Star #2 Manny Legace
Star #3 Brad Stuart
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