Flames: Kadri was sent flying by a heavy open-ice hit from defenceman Elias Pettersson midway through the first. Four minutes later, Kadri got his revenge when he split the Canucks defence — including Pettersson — and scored on a pretty deke.

The Vancouver Canucks were facing long odds of coming out of their matchup with the Calgary Flames with a win. They were playing back-to-back nights with travel, had to deal with yet another injury to their blue line,