{"id":305020,"date":"2025-11-24T06:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305020\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:20:07","slug":"calgary-flames-beat-vancouver-canucks-to-finish-back-to-back-set-with-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/305020\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary Flames beat Vancouver Canucks to finish back-to-back set with third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Dustin Wolf<\/a> made 28 saves, defenseman Rasmus Andersson<\/a> helped set up three goals and the Calgary Flames<\/a> beat the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> 5-2 on Sunday night for their third straight victory.<\/p>\n

Morgan Frost<\/a>, Connor Zary<\/a>, Kevin Bahl<\/a>, Yegor Sharangovich<\/a> and Blake Coleman<\/a> scored for the resurgent Flames in the second half of a back-to-back set. Coleman also had an assist, and Mikael Backlund<\/a> had two.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night at home, Calgary beat Dallas 3-2 in a shootout to escape the NHL cellar. At 8-13-3, Calgary has 19 points \u2014 three more than last-place Nashville, though the Flames have played three more games.<\/p>\n

Filip Hronek<\/a> and Quinn Hughes<\/a> scored for Vancouver, and Kevin Lankinen<\/a> stopped 16 shots. The Canucks have lost six of seven.<\/p>\n

Hronek opened the scoring at 1:05 of the first period. Frost tied it on a tip at 7:33 and Zary put the Flames ahead at 8:08 of the period. Bahl and Sharangovich scored in the second period.<\/p>\n

With Calgary\u2019s Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a> off for hooking Elias Pettersson<\/a> in the third, Coleman scored short-handed and Hughes countered on the power play.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Flames: At Tampa Bay on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Canucks: At Anaheim on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) \u2014 Dustin Wolf made 28 saves, defenseman Rasmus Andersson helped set up three goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-305020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}