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Canucks beat Flames 5-4 in OT
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October 12
Vancouver Sun
 
"A gritty come-from-behind overtime win by the Vancouver Canucks was tempered by the sight of defenceman Kevin Bieksa walking with a pronounced limp in the dressing room after Saturday night's game against the Calgary Flames. Bieksa went down in the first period of the game, which the Canucks won 5-4 when Pavol Demitra scored at 3:54 of overtime. Bieksa was having difficulty putting any weight on his swollen left knee, which he injured in a collision with Calgary forward Wayne Primeau. Bieksa, who missed 47 games with a right leg injury last season, said he likely won't know until Sunday just how serious the injury is. "It's tough to say, it's just a bit sore with some swelling," Bieksa ..."
Blueliner's heart beats strong in ailing body
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October 12
Calgary Herald
 
"With 13 years on his NHL odometer, Rhett Warrener considers himself a hurtin' unit in need of some serious shop time. "I've been running without oil," the Calgary Flames defenceman said Saturday morning as his teammates prepared for their home opener against Vancouver. "So it's starting to catch up with me. "If I don't play a certain way, there's no sense having me out on the ice, and I can't play that way right now." The Flames placed Warrener on the long-term injury list last Thursday, less than 48 hours after he cleared waivers for the second time this year. Long-term injury status is for players who will sit out at least 10 regular-season games and 24 calendar days. The move allowed ..."
This loss hurts even more
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October 12
Calgary Herald
 
"They started the evening in a fog, the obligatory smoke pumping out copiously during pre-game introductions, and ended it that way, too. Long after the air had cleared. The overtime goal came out of nowhere, nothing, Mike Cammalleri's pass attempt on the sideboards clipping Mattias Ohlund's stick, popping up into the air and setting the Vancouver Canucks off 3-on-1, Robyn Regehr the lone Flame back. Puck carrier Alex Burrows tried to play Regehr off in the middle, but in switching to his backhand lost control of the puck. Luckily for the visitors, Pavol Demitra was right there to slot a shot in short side at 3:53. A terrible break? Certainly. A lucky goal? Absolutely. But really nothing ..."
Newfound wealth wasted
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October 12
Calgary Sun
 
"The new kids in town did their share. It still wasn't enough for the Calgary Flames to reach the win column for the first time this season. Four off-season acquisitions -- Todd Bertuzzi, Andre Roy, Michael Cammelleri and Rene Bourque -- all lit the lamp, but the Flames wasted a two-goal lead and fell 5-4 to the Vancouver Canucks in overtime to spoil last night's home-opener. "We lost that sense of urgency," said head coach Mike Keenan. "When you let your guard down just a little bit against a team that is a hard-working team like Vancouver, they'll take advantage of it. It's that attention to detail in terms of defensive-zone coverage we let up on. "In terms of the mind-set, we took a ..."
Scoring coming from all corners for West Coasters
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October 12
Calgary Sun
 
"Don't tell the Vancouver Canucks they're supposed to have trouble scoring. Don't tell the Calgary Flames that, either, after they gave up 11 goals to their Northwest Division rival over two games in back-to-back losses to open the season. "We're scoring by committee right now," said Canucks centre Ryan Kesler, who notched his first of the season to tie the game at 3-3 in the second period of last night's 5-4 overtime victory. "I think all four lines scored tonight, which is something we need. "It was definitely a team effort." Kesler, Rick Rypien, Daniel Sedin with two, and Pavol Demitra all scored for the Canucks, who came into the season with questions about who would support the Sedins. ..."
Roy draws first blood
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October 12
Calgary Sun
 
"After being shut out in their first game of the season, bets were being placed on who would score the first goal for the Calgary Flames. Well, anyone who put money on tough guy Andre Roy cashed in last night. With the Flames down 1-0 just a couple minutes into the contest, the 6-ft.-4, 225-pounder pounced on a fluttering puck in the high slot and slapped it through Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo. From there, the Flames went on to grab a 3-1 lead before things fell apart in the 5-4 overtime loss in their home opener. "Just following the play," said Roy, who hadn't even considered he might have brought a few fans an injection of cash with his unlikely first goal. "I think Preems ..."
Warrener's injury real deal
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October 12
Calgary Sun
 
"For all those doubting Rhett Warrener's injury, thinking it's a strategic way for the Calgary Flames to circumvent the salary cap, the defenceman has a pointed replay. "Be as cynical as you want, but go talk to the docs," he said. "It's not a funny circumstance that just came up. It's not just, 'Oh, this is convenient.' "It's documented." It was easy to assume the Flames were playing some hanky panky when they unveiled their opening-day roster with Warrener on it before he was placed on the long-term injury list. But the 32-year-old defenceman is battling a very real -- and career-threatening -- injury with his right shoulder. "It's something that's been bothering me a long, long time. I ..."
One tough guy
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October 11
Globe and Mail
 
"At 32 and one game into his 12th NHL season, Jarome Iginla still burns with a passion to win a Stanley Cup. However, wanting and doing are separate issues - and it may be beyond his control, no matter how much the best player in Canada is prepared to give. The Flames qualified for the 2004 Stanley Cup final, but in three successive playoffs, they've been dismissed in the first round - twice in heart-breaking seven-game series. "Iggy wanted it in '04 as badly as anyone - and it didn't work out - and now another four years have gone by and we haven't got past the first round," said centre Craig Conroy, Iginla's best friend on the team. "That's why he trains so hard and does so much ..."
Flames happy to face 'Nucks again so soon
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October 11
Calgary Herald
 
"The first day of the season brought both a blessed event and a wretched event for the Calgary Flames. On the former front, Robyn Regehr and his wife Kristina celebrated the birth of a son. It's the couple's first child, but who knows? Maybe sometime in the future, there's more little defencemen on the way. On the other hand, there was Calgary's 6-0 waxing at the hands of the Vancouver Canucks, a result the Flames fervently hope will remain an only child. "Yeah, it wasn't too good," said forward Michael Cammalleri with a facial expression that suggested he was fully aware of the understatement. "Obviously, it's not the start we wanted." "Oh yeah," agreed netminder Miikka Kiprusoff, who was ..."
At least one Flame is happy
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October 11
Calgary Herald
 
"Good thing Robyn Regehr didn't do the traditional cigar-handout to his teammates to celebrate the arrival of his first child, a son, born at 1:58 early Friday morning at Foothills Hospital. The way the preceding 12 hours had gone for the Calgary Flames, they might have inadvertently been of the exploding variety. The joke-shop that was GM Place on opening night, the stink bomb the Regehr-less Flames let off in close proximity to thousands upon thousands of snickering Canuck-philes, was pure Grade Z, slip-on-a-banana-peel gag material. Yes, Thursday was very much a plastic-vomit kind of evening for the local heroes. Save one. For him, it will forever be special, a cameo-keepsake memory to ..."