Forget last night and move on to Vancouver. The Flames hope the dead-on-arrival power play can find some sort of jolt and come to life a la Frankenstein's creature tonight against the Canucks.
There's a real dearth of info this early in the morning for some reason, so we're just skipping ahead to the lineups, which are unconfirmed and subject to obliteration (
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FLAMES
Gaudreau - Monahan - Ferland
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Bennett - Jankowski - Hathaway
Brouwer - Stajan - Jagr
Giordano - Hamilton
Brodie - Hamonic
Kulak - Stone
Rittich (unconfirmed)
CANUCKS
D Sedin - H Sedin - Vanek
Eriksson - Gagner - Boeser
Goldobin - Burmistrov - Virtanen
Granlund - Dowd - Gaunce
Edler - Pouliot
Hutton - Stetcher
Del Zotto - Biega
Markstrom (unconfirmed)
Those Canucks have a lot of injuries. I wonder what demented creature put those elves on the injury shelf?
Go Flames