The Flames beat the Canucks kids/hopefuls yesterday in both games, 3-2 at home and 3-1 in Vancouver. I missed the action for both owing to some cable confusion, but the gamethread below has some on-the-fly observations for those looking for re-caps. Other thoughts and such are welcome in the comments.

Luckily, the NHL kept the stats for the games last night, so here are some items of interest:

Top Flames by minutes played –

Bouwmeester – 30:51

White – 25:39

Giordano – 25:13

Staios – 23:38

Tanguay – 22:20

Iginla – 21:03

Bourque – 20:30

Jokinen – 20:18

Stajan – 4:07 (injured)

Ivanans – 6:28

Cameron – 6:53

Chucko – 7:35

Nemisz – 9:39

Armstrong – 9:36 (injured)

Mikael Backlund – 16:20

Matt Pelech – 13:20

John Negrin – 17:21

TJ Brodie – 16:51

Mitch Wahl – 15:15

– Things were a lot more spread out amongst the forwards in the away game thanks to Stajan getting hurt almost immeditately. Mitch Wahl benefitted and managed to nab two assists with the opportunity.

– Interesting to see Matt Pelech get the least amount of ice time amongst the hopefuls on the back-end. Of course, he was limited by the fact that he doesn’t play on the PP. His ES ice time (12:00) was within range of everyone else, including guys like White and Regehr.

– Jon Rheault (3), Mark Giordano (3) and Rene Bourque (3) led the Flames in SOG in the away game. Shots leaders at home were Iginlna (3), Jokinen (3) and Bouwmeester (4).

– Glancing at the guys who played less than 10 minutes, I think we can start to guess who will be on the first flight back to Abbotsford. *cough* Chucko *cough*

Thats it for now. Expect some cuts to come down in the next day or so.