Calgary Flames win 4-1 over Vancouver Canucks in NHL pre-season game
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Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and an assist as the Calgary Flames earned a 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in a pre-season game on Friday.
Johnny Gaudreau scored his first goal of the pre-season and added an assist Friday to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
Matthew Tkachuk also had a goal and an assist in Calgary’s first pre-season victory. Mikael Backlund and Brett Ritchie, into an empty net, also scored. The Flames started the pre-season 0-2-1.
Jonah Gadjovich scored the lone goal for the Canucks, who dropped to 1-2-0.
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Flames goaltender Jacob Markstrom got his first pre-season start and turned aside 14 of 15 shots over two periods. Dustin Wolf made seven saves in the third.
Vancouver’s Thatcher Demko went the distance in his first pre-season appearance and stopped 27 shots.
Calgary’s offence generated far more scoring chances than it did in three previous games.
Gaudreau took advantage of a late line-up change which dropped Blake Coleman from the game roster. The vacancy resulted in Gaudreau shifting to a line alongside Elias Lindholm and Tkachuk.
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