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CALGARY – Ryan Lomberg and Brayden Pachal each had a goal and an assist Saturday night to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in an NHL preseason game.
Blake Coleman and Adam Klapka also scored for Calgary, which is 4-0-1 through five games.
Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Aatu Ratyu were the markers for Vancouver, which was 2-2 in exhibition play.
Dan Vladar, who stopped 17 of 19 shots in 40 minutes of action, got the win. Devin Cooley made nine stops in relief.
Artus Silovs, beaten four times on 24 shots, gave way to Nikita Tolopilo to start the third. Tolopilo had eight saves.
Calgary opened the scoring at 4:23 when Pachal lifted a wrist shot from the blue line through a maze of bodies dodging Silovs, who never saw him.
The Flames surged to a 2-0 lead three minutes later when Lomberg snagged a MacKenzie Weegar rebound in the slot and fired a shot just inside the goal post.
Lomberg, 29, who broke into the NHL as a Flame in 2017-18, re-signed during the off-season in Calgary as a free agent after four years with the Florida Panthers, and was ended by winning the Stanley Cup.
Vancouver got on the scoreboard at 8:35 of the second on a fortunate rebound.
Lekkerimaki’s shot from the slot deflected off Flames defenseman Artem Grushnikov, high into the air, and with no one seemingly aware of where the puck had gone, it fell over Vladar and landed in the net Calgary.
Since being drafted by Vancouver in the first round, in 2022, Lekkerimaki has spent the last two seasons in his native Sweden.
This will be the 20-year-old’s first season in North America and with three points (1 goal, 2 assists) in three games in the pre-season, he is pushing for a job with the Canucks.
One of the players he is competing against is Raty, who after Calgary took a 3-1 lead, managed to get the Canucks back within one again on a perfect shot after being set up on 2-on-1 by Conor Garland.
Raty, a 2021 second-round pick, was acquired by the New York Islanders in the Bo Horvat trade. He has spent most of the last two seasons in the AHL.
The Flames restored their two-goal cushion later in the second with Klapka firing a shot past Silovs for his third goal in as many pre-season games.
Klapka, who stands 6-foot-8, looks to make the team’s fourth line. The 24-year-old has shown some offensive pop with three goals in as many pre-season games.
His physicality was also on display Saturday, throwing an open ice shot in the first period on Nils Aman that sent the Canucks forward flying. In the third, a heavy hit on Akito Hirose sends the defender carefully into the sideboards. Hirose had to be helped off the ice.
UNKNOWN CRIME
Known more for his physicality, Pachal has never had a multi-point game in his 62 NHL regular season games. The 24-year-old was in his fifth season with the Vegas Golden Knights organization when he was claimed off waivers by Calgary last February.
HUBERDEAU-FEAR COMBO
Left winger Jonathan Huberdeau played in his second preseason game for Calgary and has been the case throughout camp, right winger was veteran Anthony Mantha, who the Flames signed to a one-year deal as a free agent. On this night, Yegor Sharangovich was in the middle. In the first game, both were centered by Martin Pospisil.
UP NEXT
Canucks: Visit the Edmonton Oilers on Monday.
Flames: Host the Seattle Kraken on Monday.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on September 28, 2024.
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