VANCOUVER -- Elias Pettersson had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut, and the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Calgary Flames 5-2 at Rogers Arena on Wednesday.
Nikolay Goldobin, Brendan Leipsic, Jake Virtanen and Tyler Motte also scored, and Jacob Markstrom made 33 saves for the Canucks, who won their fifth straight season opener.
Matthew Tkachuk and Sean Monahan scored, and Mike Smith made 18 saves for the Flames, who lost their first game with new coach Bill Peters.
Pettersson, the No. 5 pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, scored on his first NHL shot, keeping the puck on a 2-on-1 and finishing with a wrist shot over the glove of Smith and just under the crossbar at 13:48 of the first period for a 1-0 lead. The 19-year-old center led the Swedish Hockey League in scoring with 56 points (24 goals, 32 assists) in 44 games and was named league MVP in the regular season and playoffs last season.
Pettersson made a nice lateral pass out of the slot to set up Goldobin's goal that made it 2-0 at 1:52 of the third period, and Leipsic converted a rebound at 2:20 to make it 3-0.
Tkachuk made it 3-1 at 3:08 on a rebound that caught Markstrom out of position, but the Flames failed to convert a penalty to Virtanen 25 seconds later, and Virtanen scored on a breakaway for a 4-1 at 5:46, 13 seconds after his penalty expired.
Monahan cut the lead to 4-2 at 8:08, but the Flames again failed to convert a power play on a tripping penalty at 8:48, and finished 0-for-7 with the man advantage. Vancouver was 0-for-1.
Motte scored into an empty net with 48 seconds left to make it 5-2.
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