Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks clash in Game 5 of their Round 1 Stanley Cup playoff series live from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
Calgary looks to wrap this one up on the road and advance to the second round while Vancouver is hopeful to win on home ice and send the series back to the Scotiabank Saddledome for Game 6.
The Canucks defeated the Flames 2-1 in Game 1, but Calgary stormed back by winning three straight contests.
The victories included a 4-1 win in Game 2 and then when the series shifted to the Saddledome, Vancouver dropped Game 3 by a 4-2 margin and Game 4 by a 3-1 score.
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The Flames are hopeful to advance to the second round for the first time since 2004 -- the year they made it to the Stanley Cup Final -- and they have three chances to do so, starting with tonight.
"We need one more, so there's no celebration. It's business as usual," Calgary coach Bob Hartley told the Flames website.
Calder Trophy-candidate Johnny Gaudreau scored his first-career playoff goal and Jiri Hudler (power play) and Sam Bennett also lit the lamp to aid Calgary to victory in Game 4. It marked Bennett's, 18, second tally of the series. Every goal in this game came in the opening period.
The lone marker for the Canucks came from the stick of Henrik Sedin, who notched his first goal of the postseason. Henrik and his brother Daniel Sedin have been kept in check, scoring just a goal and an assist apiece through four games.
No one on Vancouver has more than one goal in the series while Bo Horvat (1-2--3) leads the team in points. Kris Russell (2-2--4) has paced Calgary.
A major change for the Canucks comes in the blue paint as Roberto Luongo will start Game 5 after taking over for Eddie Lack in the first period of Game 4.
Luongo, who allowed five goals against the Edmonton Oilers in a 6-5 overtime win in the regular season finale in his return from a knee injury, made 15 saves on Tuesday.
"I'm not going to be 100 percent physically, but I know I can bring a lot with my approach and try to be efficient and contribute to managing our zone," Miller said per NHL.com.
In his first season in Vancouver, Miller finished 29-15-1 with a 2.53 goals-against average and .911 save percentage. In his postseason career, Miller is 27-26 with a 2.47 GAA and .916 save percentage.
Calgary counters with Jonas Hiller, who has lost just once in this series and has stopped 106 of the 113 shots he's faced through the first four games.
The Flames look to advance while the Canucks hopes to ward off elimination when these teams skate against each other in Game 5 of their first-round series live from the Rogers Arena in Vancouver as part of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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