A National Hockey League season is long. The games are full of small places and wonky bounces. Sometimes a team plays really well but doesn't get rewarded, often due to a really good goaltending performance. Yes, folks, sometimes you lose.
The Calgary Flames lost 4-2 tonight to the Vancouver Canucks. Don't let the score fool you: they were by far the better team. But Ryan Miller was superb and that, along with a pair of disallowed shorthanded goals and some bad breaks, was the difference.
THE RUNDOWN
Things started off great for the Flames. In familiar fashion, the vaunted 3M Line opened the scoring and were able to do so on their first shift.