Flames (2-0-0) at CANUCKS (1-0-0)

7:00 p.m. PT; SNP

It's the Nucking 1st 2nd game of the season! The whatever pre-season. The coaching 'n cutting season.

This fledgling stale cross border Rockies rivalry is about as riveting as a soggy day in Cowtown. If it feels like we've seen this before, never trust your feelings... or my feelings... or whatever. This is a more important test of the new Nucking roster, especially the new guys working with our $92M old(ish) guy. Will Debrusk be the panacea for Pete's winger woes? We don't know yet.

With so much high payroll money playing tonight, Nucks could only afford to rent an AHL rink. Cowtown comes to Abby for another preseason tilt of champions. Or prospects. Or PTOs.

Some prospects face the prospect of their 1st NHL back-to-back game. Lekkerimäki, Räty, Karlsson and Blais have another chance to show their Taco Tough stuff.

Projected Rosters

Nucks:

Forwards

DeBrusk - Pettersson - Lekkerimäki

Karlsson - Räty - Sprong

Also: Bains, Sherwood, Blais, PDG, Sasson, Smith

Big D: Hughes, Desharnais, Woo, Soucy, Wolanin, Juulsen, Hirose

Goalies: Jiří Patera is confirmed, pretty much, as well as Nikita Tolopilo.

That's another pre-cup winning lineup right there.

Flames:

F: Backlund, Coleman, Coronato, Kadri, Kuzmenko, Sharangovich, Zary, Huberdeau, Lomberg, Mantha, Pospisil

D: Weegar, Andersson, Bahl, Bean

Being another exciting preseason display, not many will be watching big screen hockey in a small rink.

Game Day 'Battle' Hymn

The Nucks/Flames rivalry goes back a long time... now we can go back to that 70s funky feeling too.

Go Coconuts!