VANCOUVER -- Loui Eriksson had a nightmare start to his Vancouver Canucks debut, but helped ensure a happy ending in their season-opening win against the Calgary Flames on Saturday.
Eriksson scored into his own net, which had been vacated on a delayed penalty against Calgary in the first period, but set up Daniel Sedin for the tying goal with a dominant shift with 3:51 left in the third period. Brandon Sutter then scored the only goal in the fourth round of the shootout to help the Canucks to a 2-1 win at Rogers Arena.
"I've never seen that before and it was lucky we came back and won," Eriksson said.
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