Joni Ortio made 36 saves for the first shutout of his NHL career Saturday as the Calgary Flames downed the Vancouver Canucks 1-0.
Mikael Backlund scored in the first period for Calgary (22-18-3) and Ortio held the fort the rest of the way in his first start of the season to help his team snap a three-game losing streak.
The 23-year-old Finn was recalled from the AHL's Adirondack Flames this week after Karri Ramo went down with an upper-body injury and came in having played just nine NHL games prior to Saturday.
The Flames had lost nine straight against Vancouver (0-6-3) before Saturday and hadn't beaten the Canucks since a 4-2 victory on March 3, 2013, at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
Eddie Lack stopped 22 shots for Vancouver (23-14-3), which has dropped two straight after going 5-1-1 over its previous seven outings.
Lack — who came in with a 3-0-0 career record against Calgary — got the start ahead of No. 1 goalie Ryan Miller, who wasn't feeling well, but still sat on the Vancouver bench as the backup.
Still trailing 1-0 after giving up a goal early in the first and in possession of a 28-14 shot edge through two periods, the Canucks came out hard in the third, but Ortio was there when he had to be after Vancouver hit three posts in the game's first 40 minutes.
Lack was forced into a couple stops to keep his team in it, including chances from Johnny Gaudreau and Matt Stajan.
Vancouver continued to press late, but Calgary found a way to hang on late despite playing its second game in as many nights.
Ortio was 4-4-0 in his brief NHL career prior to Saturday — including a 2-1 loss in Vancouver where he faced just 14 shots — but had the Canucks' number in this one.
Calgary led 1-0 after a first period mostly dominated by the Canucks and the home side continued on the front foot in the second.
Daniel Sedin hit the Canucks' second post of the night on a short-handed 2-on-1 rush 1:30 into the period before Jannik Hansen rang another shot off the crossbar a few minutes later.
Lack then had to be sharp after a puck in front of the Vancouver goal pinballed to Calgary's Brandon Bollig, who fired a quick shot on target.
The Canucks thought they had tied the game with under five minutes to go, but the goal was waved off when Henrik Sedin was judged to have batted the puck in with a high stick. After his brother Daniel was stoned by Ortio in close the puck popped up in the air, the Vancouver captain tapped the puck in while it was still above the crossbar.
The goal was waved off on the ice and confirmed by replay.
Daniel Sedin then had another chance late in the period, only to have Ortio again foil his effort — this time on a 2-on-1 break with the teams playing 4-on-4.
The Flames didn't have much of the puck in the first period, but grabbed a 1-0 lead at 5:38 on their first shot of the game when Backlund chipped a cross-crease feed from David Jones past Lack for his fourth of the season. Backlund now has three goals and two assists in three games after missing the previous 29 following abdominal surgery.
Ortio, who faced 15 shots in the first period, had to be sharp with about seven minutes to go, stopping Nick Bonino at the side of the net after he took a nice feed from Chris Higgins.
Both teams hit posts late in the period, with Flames forward Sean Monahan pinging a shot behind Lack before Bonino did the same against Ortio.
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