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Canucks end five-game skid, extend Flames’ drop to eight

Chris Tanev, Jonas Hiller

Chris Tanev, Jonas Hiller

AP

At least the Calgary Flames finally got a point. It didn’t look like they would even be able to do that much early in tonight’s game against the Vancouver Canucks, but it’s hard for the Flames to be happy with their 3-2 overtime loss given that it extended their slump to eight games.

The Flames started the contest on a rough note as a botched passing attempt on a delayed penalty led to them scoring on their own net.

“Right now, every time we make a mistake, the puck is in our net,” Flames bench boss Bob Hartley said, per PHT’s Jason Brough.

Vancouver got its first earned goal 9:24 minutes into the contest courtesy of Radim Vrbata:

The Canucks held the lead for most of this contest, but David Jones put the Flames within one in the second period and rookie Johnny Gaudreau scored at 7:05 of the third period to send this one to overtime.

Christopher Tanev, who turned 25 on Saturday, made it a memorable birthday by scoring the overtime winner. It was his fourth career game-winning goal. With that, Vancouver ended its own slump at five games.

“We handled the pressure today when they came back, we played our system,” Henrik Sedin said, per the Cancuks’ Twitter feed. “It wasn’t creative but it’s a win.”

Calgary is now three points behind in the battle for a Wild Card spot with a 17-15-3 record.

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