On Monday night in Calgary, the Flames handed the Vancouver Canucks another loss, 5-2, with Jacob Markstrom making 25 saves to beat his old team, again.
“All our players have been contributing,” Calgary coach Geoff Ward said. “That’s what I really like about our last two wins. It was probably a pretty complete game for us the other night. Tonight, we played two real good periods out of three. But everybody’s contributing. We’re liking a lot of the things we’re seeing right now.”
Johnny Gaudreau had a goal and two points in the win.
“We needed some juice from something,” Gaudreau said. “That first period wasn’t great for us. I think everyone kind of stepped up, all four lines and the [defensemen] and helped [Markstrom]. We got a lead there. Big second.”
Jake Virtanen and Tyler Myers were the Canucks goal scorers.
“We’ve just got to be better pros,” the Canucks’ J.T. Miller said. “We get paid a lot of money to do this. We have to be ready to play 60 minutes, or as close to it as possible.”
Mikael Backlund, Elias Lindholm and Mark Giordano also had strikes for the Flames.
“When you play a team that you played recently, they know what you’re about on the power play so they definitely did some adjustments, so we had to do some as well,” Lindholm said. “But overall, I think we scored two tonight and if you score two every night, you’re going to win a lot of games.”
Rasmus Andersson added an empty net goal in the third period to end the scoring for the Flames.
Thatcher Demko made 27 saves in the loss.
“I think when things aren’t going your way it’s a little bit easy to get negative, but I think in this type of season when the games are so quick you don’t have time to get down on yourself,” Demko said. “You have to flip the page and get back at it. We play pretty much every other day this year and some back-to-backs too. I think that’s a good thing, especially like this where it’s not really going our way.”
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