Calgary: A Week in Review (November 30th to December 6th, 2019)

Record this week: 1-2-0

Game 31:
Wisborg Donuts 3 Calgary Chinook 7
David Pastrnak has hat trick in Chinook' 7-3 win over Donuts

CALGARY - Pastrnak, who entered with twelve goals this season, completed his hat trick effort in the second period with a breakaway goal at 15:00 mark. Calvin de Haan, Nino Niederreiter, John Carlson and Kris Letang had the other Calgary goals. Filip Forsberg, Elias Pettersson and Oscar Klefbom scored for the Donuts. Calgary Chinook centre Aleksander Barkov didn't play due to an upper-body injury. Pastrnak put the Chinook up 1-0 at 2:17 of the first on a nifty redirection from the left circle. Pastrnak extended the Calgary lead to 3-1 when he scored at 10:49 of the first period. His second goal of the game gave the Chinook a two-goal advantage. Anders Nilsson, who received little support from his teammates, was pulled and replaced by Robin Lehner after Nino Niederreiter scored to make it 4-1 with 6:29 left in the second. Nilsson gave up four goals on 15 shots.

Game 32:
Sudbury Miners 4 Calgary Chinook 0
Thomas Greiss perfect in Sudbury Miners 4-0 win over Calgary Chinook

CALGARY - Thomas Greiss made 18 saves as the Sudbury Miners shut out the Calgary Chinook 4-0 on Sunday. Tyler Seguin scored for Sudbury in the first 15:14 of the opening period, followed by 3 more goals in the third, two by Nicklas Backstrom and one more by Tyler Seguin. Chinook are without Barkov, O’Reilly and Gaudreau this game. Carey Price was busy in net turned aside 31 of the 35 shots he faced. Thomas Greiss stopped all 18 saves for the shutout win. Sudbury’s scoring began with an unexpected move by Seguin. After picking up a rebound in the slot off a shot by Seguin, Tyler moved to the face-off circle with his back to Price, but then spun around and fired the puck past the netminder at 15:14. Nicklas Backstrom scored his 12th of the season with a close wrist shot at 1:11 off a pass by Travis Konecny. Backstrom then fired in his second goal of the game with a blast from the point and teammate Zach Hyman screening Price on the play. Calgary was 0 for 4 on the power play and Sudbury 1 for 6.

Game 33:
Calgary Chinook 3 Seattle Reign 5
Chinook’ spiral continues as they fall to Reign, 5-3

SEATTLE - Carey Price allowed 4 goals in the first 16 minutes of the first period
before replaced by Mike Smith. “We left Pricey out to dry,” center Derek Ryan said. “It just sucks that we gave up some easy chances against him. Those are the kind of mistakes that are kind of
haunting us right now. We’re forcing things and it’s not going our way.” Seattle’s Bjorkstrand, Hischier and Staal scored four goals in 14 minutes apart in the first period, turning a 1-1 tie into a 4-1 lead. Bjorkstrand scored on a deflection. Hischier outraced Markus Granlund and beat Price on a breakaway. “I didn’t think we gave up a lot, but what we gave up was wrong. It shouldn’t happen,” coach Eugene Yip said. “We gave up enough of those wrong plays that they were able to cash in.”
“We just stopped skating,” Chinook winger David Pastrnak said. “You play 40 minutes, you’re not going to win many games.” The Chinook outshot the Reign by 43-30. But when the outcome was still in doubt, the offense struggled to finish. Again.  “I felt like myself. You just try to get your bearings a little bit and sort things out, but hockey is hockey,” Price said. “It definitely wasn’t my best game.”