win

Nothing beats a win.
But there's no doubt it's made a little bit sweeter when it comes against your old club.

Jacob Markstrom had a big night between the pipes, allowing just one goal on 25 shots as the Flames beat the Canucks 4-1 in the first of four straight games between the clubs to finish off the regular season.
Rasmus Andersson, Andrew Mangiapane, Elias Lindholm and Matthew Tkachuk supplied the offence for the homeside.
Johnny Gaudreau was stellar, getting a pair of helpers as he created offensive chances all night.
The Canucks got on the board quick, scoring just 1:02 into the tilt thanks for a fortuitous bounce.
Former Flame Travis Hamonic stepped into a shot from up high, the puck deflecting off Matthew Highmore - who was battling for position in the slot - and changing direction to beat Markstrom.
The Flames answered back, though, just 2:34 later.
Gaudreau won a foot race for a loose puck in the Vancouver zone, passed it to Lindholm and then got the return feed, setting up down low and feathering a perfect pass between the legs of Alex Edler - who was trying to block the lane - and right onto the stick of Andersson, who pinched in from the point to tip it home on the backdoor past Thatcher Demko.
It was the defenceman's fifth goal of the season, tying his career high.
For Gaudreau, it was 32nd regular-season point in 34 career games against the Canucks, his most against one opponent. It was also his team-leading seventh point against Vancouver this season.

VAN@CGY: Andersson buries Gaudreau's backdoor feed

Less than two minutes later, the Flames took their first lead of the game.
Mangiapane tallied his 14th of the season when he found himself all alone out front, tipping a Nikita Nesterov shot up-and-over Demko at 5:17.

VAN@CGY: Mangiapane tips in Nesterov's blast

Earlier in the day, Mangiapane and Dillon Dube talked about how they'll skate for Team Canada at the Worlds later this month.
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The second period featured lots of shots (14-10 for Vancouver) but no goals.
Calgary had two great chances in the final five minutes of the frame, first Demko flashing the leather on a 3-on-1 one-timer from Oliver Kylington right beside the net, then Josh Leivo holding the puck on a 2-on-1 with Glenn Gawdin and firing a shot the the Vancouver netminder got a piece of with his glove.
The Flames had more than a minute-and-a-half of powerplay time to start the third but couldn't find twine, despite some excellent set-ups by Gaudreau.
Demko came up big later on another 2-on-1, Mikael Backlund feeding across to Mangiapane but his shot was stopped.
Markstrom was caled upon for a big save of his own with the Canucks on a powerplay, coming across his crease to rob a Bo Horvat attempt.
Tkachuk sprung Lindholm on a breakaway with a great chip pass and beat Demko short-side at 15:33.

VAN@CGY: Lindholm wires home a wrister on the break

The Flames went to the powerplay not long after and made good, Tkachuk firing a pass into the slot that deflected off Canucks forward J.T. Miller to round out the scoring.

VAN@CGY: Tkachuk nets fortuitous PPG on a deflection

THEY SAID IT:

Lindholm on his play:
"I just try to take it game by game and play as good as I can these last three. But it's obviously nice to score some goals."

"We want to win the last three games"

Head coach Darryl Sutter on win:
"They scored the early goal and we had some resilience to come back and score the two to win the first period. The second, Jacob made a lot of good saves early and got us faceoffs early in the second period there and the powerplay put it away in the third."

Head coach with his thoughts on tonight's victory

NICE WORK, GENTS!

BY THE NUMBERS:

Shots: Cgy 28 I Van 25
\Scoring Chances: Cgy 23 I Van 15
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High-Danger Scoring Chances: Cgy 6 I Van 5
Calgary Powerplay:1-4
Calgary Penalty-Kill: 1-1
Hits: Cgy 7 I Van 11
Blocks: Cgy 8 I Van 12
\According to naturalstattrick.com
Video: Condensed Game: Canucks @ Flames*

THE LINEUP:

\To start the game*
Lines
Johnny Gaudreau - Elias Lindholm - Matthew Tkachuk
Joakim Nordstrom - Mikael Backlund - Andrew Mangiapane
Milan Lucic - Derek Ryan - Dillon Dube
Josh Leivo - Glenn Gawdin - Brett Ritchie
Pairings
Mark Giordano - Chris Tanev
Nikita Nesterov - Rasmus Andersson
Oliver Kylington - Michael Stone
Goaltenders
Jacob Markstrom
Louis Domingue

UP NEXT:

The two teams meet again Sunday night in Vancouver for an 8:30 p.m. tilt.