(GDT) Vancouver Canucks Vs. Calgary Flames - Wed, Oct 7, 2015 - SN/SN360 - 7:00 PT/8:00 MT/10:00 ET

[Green Goblin]

[redhdlois]

^ ^ ^ Virtanen scores from the pressbox.....wins Rookie of the Year !

[Shift-4]

Wednesday, 10.7.2015 / 12:40 PM PT / Features

By Derek Jory

Ben Hutton was first to check the clock.

Jared McCann took a peek next.

Hutton, moments later, looked again.

McCann glanced over shortly after.

“I swear time stopped,” laughed Hutton. “I checked it at 8:30 p.m. when we went to bed and it felt like I’d been lying there for hours and I looked again and it was only 9 p.m. Time was moving very slowly last night.”

Both 22-year-old Hutton and 19-year-old McCann, roommates in Calgary, hit the sheets extra early Tuesday night looking to get a full night’s sleep. While the plan was solid, the execution was poor at best.

They tossed, they turned, they talked. They were like five-year-olds on Christmas Eve and with last night being the eve of their NHL debuts, their lack of shuteye is completely understandable.

Quite frankly, it’s to be expected.

“I have to make myself sleep this afternoon,” said McCann. “If the game was last night, I would have been flying. I had so much energy; I could have played 10-straight periods of hockey, they would have had to pull me off the ice.”

Now that’s the youthful energy and gusto the Canucks were looking for when they made McCann, Hutton and Jake Virtanen part of their roster to open the 2015-16 season.

“Everything was just running through my head, I couldn’t shut my brain off,” said Hutton, grinning. “You only get one NHL debut and sleep or not, I’ll be ready.”

What about the butterflies wreaking havoc in your stomach?

“I’ll be able to block some of that out, hopefully. The rest I’ll feed off of.”

McCann said the same thing, he’ll use the extra oomph in his step to his benefit, but he’ll be playing through the excited nervousness of his parents as well. Matt and Erin McCann will be at the Scotiabank Saddledome, proud as ever.

“Today is a day I’ll always remember,” smiled McCann.

“Forget sleep, can we just play now?”

Soon.

Love it!

[AlphaHoneyBadger]

If we lose, Virtanen starts Saturday is my guess.

[stawns]

If we lose, Virtanen starts Saturday is my guess.

he likely starts Saturday anyway........hometown debut and all.

[cbdoubleu]

Sutter's versatility allows us to shuffle the lines and get McCann and Virtanen in games. It also doesn't hurt to get Sutter going offensively. If can be a Burrows with younger legs, it might help the Sedins get off to a good start as well. All while giving the Canucks a chance to get good looks at the roster with, and without, Virtanen and McCann. I guess the worst of McCann and Cracknell tonight watch on Saturday.

[singularity]

100-0 Canucks.

Game starts and Calgary's lines are

Crosby-Gretzky-Kane

Ovechkin-Malkin-Perry

Getzlaf-Toews-Nash

Couture-McDavid-Marchand

Chara-Karlsson

Subban-Letang

Byfuglien-Weber

Goalies:

Price

Lundqvist

Game starts and the refs ask about the change in the lines. Hartley says "oops, he forgot", so his whole team is sent to the locker room. Canucks take turns scoring. He gets a goal, she gets a goal, Miller gets a goal, EVERYONE GETS A GOAL.

Hartley in frustration comes out, but trips on his undone laces and gets run over by the zamboni.

[Buckeye Fruit]

Its a war.....

Every game with the flames....

All season....

Tonight it goes to OT 3 on 3 and Sedinery prevails.

Flames be all like DAMN we are in tough with these guys this season.

ALSO: since the time capsule thread is locked.....way to early....

My official promise I won't change it prediction for the season is.

We get > 100 points

We face the flames again in the first round.

We prevail in OT in game 7 and move on.... We party on Grandville "blue mile"

We then lose to the Ducks in 7 but feel pretty damn good about the season and direction of the team.

Cause next year.....WE PLAY FOR A CUP!

GO CANUCKS GO!

GO CANUCKS GO!!

GO CANUCKS GO!!!

[The Weasel]

I expect Bo to be the MVP of this first game.

I expect him to be the MVP of the Stanley Cup Finals too.

[CANUCK-EXPRESS]

I expect him to be the MVP of the Stanley Cup Finals too.

"Anythings possible!!" - Kevin Garnett

[-Vintage Canuck-]

[-Vintage Canuck-]

PRE-GAME | Desjardins vs Flames 10.07.15

Canucks Head Coach Willie Desjardins updates the status of Jacob Markstrom and previews the season opener against the Calgary Flames.

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/embed?playlist=840700&site=canucks

[-Vintage Canuck-]

PRE-GAME | Cracknell vs Flames 10.07.15

Adam Cracknell speaks with reporters about playing his first game in a Canucks uniform Wednesday night on the road against the Calgary Flames.

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/embed?playlist=840701&site=canucks

[AlphaHoneyBadger]

PRE-GAME | Desjardins vs Flames 10.07.15

Canucks Head Coach Willie Desjardins updates the status of Jacob Markstrom and previews the season opener against the Calgary Flames.

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/embed?playlist=840700&site=canucks

He sure seems that he is NOT sold on Virtanen. Guys ahead of him? From the preseason? High as a giraffes @$$.

[Sedin Brothers]

All I'm going to say is we are asking an awful lot from Horvat in his second season. The sophomore slump is very real, and even the best have been affected by it. He has to step up.

[philtbc829]

Lots of questions here...and I still don't like this Sutter experiment with the Twins....VERY LOW expectations....

obviously it would be great for a win...but reality states that the Nucks will lose hoping a close one 3-2 and even better in OT..

[Rex425]

Go Canucks!

[Li'l Fra]

Guys ahead of Virtanen...blah!

Come on coach...what team were you watching?

Seriously, get some new pills.

Willie is cruising into the season the way the vets cruised through preseason.

Go Canucks!

[VancouverStyle]

So stoked hockey season is back. Hoping for a entertaining game tonight.

Go Canucks Go

[nom_de_plume]

Who will beat up Engeland?

Noone. He'll turtle after seeing the other two get pummelled!!!! GCG!!!!!