VANCOUVER — Elias Pettersson, celebrating his twenty sixth birthday, tied the sport on the facility play early within the second interval and assisted on Erik Brannstrom’s objective within the third because the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Calgary Flames 3-1 Tuesday night time.
Pius Suter additionally scored for the Canucks (8-3-3). J.T. Miller had two assists.
Justin Kirkland scored for Calgary (8-6-3)
Vancouver goaltender Kevin Lankinen stopped 27 pictures to enhance his document to 8-1-2.
Flames goalie Dan Vladar made 29 saves.
The objective was the primary as a Canuck for Brannstrom, who was acquired in an Oct. 6 take care of Colorado.
Swedish rookie Jonathan Lekkerimaki, the fifteenth choose within the 2022 draft, performed his first recreation as a Canuck. He took Brock Boeser’s spot on the first-unit energy play.
The Canucks performed their second recreation with out Boeser, who’s recovering from an upper-body damage after being hit within the head by Tanner Jeannot of the Los Angeles Kings final Thursday.
The Flames have been coming off a 3-1 win over the Kings in Calgary on Monday night time.
Canucks: Mixed together with his objective within the loss to Edmonton on Saturday night time, it was the primary time in 50 regular-season video games that Pettersson has scored in back-to-back video games. He final had consecutive objectives in a three-game stretch from Jan. 15 to Jan. 20.
Flames: After profitable 5 of their first six video games the Flames have simply three wins of their final 11 (3-6-2).
Calgary led 1-0 after scoring on the 19-minute mark of the primary interval however defenceman Daniil Miromanov was referred to as for high-sticking simply earlier than the interval ended. Pettersson tapped in a Miller shot to tie the sport on the facility play simply 23 seconds into the second, then Suter made it 2-1 2:15 later.
The Canucks gave up the opening objective for the eighth consecutive recreation however are 5-2-1 throughout that stretch.
Flames: Host the Nashville Predators on Friday.
Canucks: Host the New York Islanders on Thursday.
