In Vancouver, the Calgary Flames let a 3-2 lead slip away and to the Canucks on Monday night.
Vancouver’s Brock Boeser scored a shorthanded goal with 31 seconds left on the clock in the third period to rescue the Canucks and send the game to overtime.
Johnny Gaudreau then scored on the power play to give the Flames a 4-3 win.
“Just a great pass by [Sean Monahan],” Gaudreau said. “Kind of sold his shot. Goalie was a little bit slower to get over and [I] kind of just had an empty-netter.”
Jacob Markstrom made 30 saves in the win.
“I thought we were much, much better tonight,” Calgary head coach Geoff Ward said. “Definitely a step in the right direction.”
The Flames had lost to the Canucks on Saturday night.
Tanner Pearson and Bo Horvat scored for Vancouver to give them an early 2-0 lead before the Flames rallied for the lead.
Milan Lucic and Elias Lindholm got the Flames even with a pair of goals.
Dillon Dube pushed Calgary into the lead with a goal at 15:51 of the middle frame.
“It just went off my stick and in, I don’t know. I thought [Lucic] got it,” Dube said of his new linemate. “Our line (Dube, Lucic, Sam Bennett) was forechecking really hard tonight and we got rewarded for it.”
Thatcher Demko made 23 saves in the loss.
“We’re happy we had the push back and obviously got into the overtime,” Horvat said. “In my opinion, we shouldn’t have gone to overtime in the first place. We made, including myself, just a bad giveaway and it’s unfortunate, but we’ve just got to learn from it and move on.”
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