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CALGARY - Calgary and Nashville entered the night ranked 28th and 29th offensively, but you never would have known it. Shea Weber scored twice, including the go-ahead goal late in the third period, Friday night as the Predators, despite blowing two leads, escaped with a 6-5 victory over the Calgary Flames. Tied 4-4 and with the Predators on the power play, Weber took a perfect feed from Matt Cullen and fired a slapshot past Joey MacDonald from the face-off dot to put Nashville back into the lead at 14:28. On a night that featured ugly plays defensively from both sides, even the go-ahead goal was no thing of beauty either, Weber admitted. "I missed it," said the Predators defenceman. "I was trying to go up with it to be honest with you and it kind of went off the heel of my stick and I got lucky." Webers 18th goal ties him with Ottawas Erik Karlsson for second in the NHL among defencemen, one back of Winnipegs Dustin Byfuglien. "We didnt expect that coming in. We thought it was going to be a tight-checking, low-scoring game," said Weber. "Obviously its huge to get that many goals. Hopefully that can loosen guys up a bit." Cullen added his seventh goal of the season at 17:08 on a deflection. That would turn out to be the winning goal after Mike Cammalleris second of the night from a scramble 28 seconds later set up a furious final two-and-a-half minutes for the Flames, who buzzed around the Predators net and did everything but tie it against back-up goaltender Carter Hutton. "Its weird how games sometimes trend like that. When it opens up, it opens up," said Hutton, who came in for starter Pekka Rinne after Mikael Backlund tied it 4-4 on the Flames 18th shot at 13:31 of the second. "The fifth one wasnt the best goal Ive ever given up but it squeaks in," said Hutton. "The crowd starts getting into it but weve still got the one-goal lead. Youve got to stay focused and my mindset doesnt change." Victor Bartley, Patric Hornqvist and Viktor Stalberg also scored for Nashville (30-31-10), which snapped a three-game losing skid. Twenty-two-year-old centre Calle Jarnkrok had an assist in his NHL debut. Kris Russell and Jiri Hudler rounded out the scoring for Calgary (28-35-7), which lost for only the third time in its last dozen games at the Scotiabank Saddledome. "Pretty simple - no defence," said Flames head coach Bob Hartley. "Im not pointing at our goalie or our defencemen, by any means. Im talking about our team game." Down 2-0 early, the Flames fought back to tie it 3-3 before falling behind again 4-3. They came from behind one more time to even it 4-4 headed to the third. "We worked very hard to come back a few times in the game, but the way that we were committed defensively tonight, I dont think we had a chance," Hartley said. After the game, the Flames announced that Joni Ortio, who started but was pulled after surrendering four goals on 13 shots, was being returned to Abbotsford in the American Hockey League now that Karri Ramo (knee) is ready to return to the line-up for Saturdays game in Edmonton. Hartley was quick to absolve Ortio from blame for the defeat. "It was not an easy night for him but the way we executed in the first period," said Hartley. "Us, as a team, we put our goalie in that situation. I dont think we can blame Joni Ortio by any means for this loss. That was a team loss and were much better than what we showed tonight." Leading 2-1 after the first period, Nashville increased its margin to two when Hornqvist batted in a centring pass out of the air. It was the first of five goals in a wide open, back and forth and middle period. Cammalleri drew the Flames back to within one at 6:23 and 51 seconds later, Hudler tipped in Mark Giordanos snapshot from the blue-line to tie it 3-3. "That was an old-school game, I guess. It was back and forth. We did a lot of great things and had a lot of good spurts, especially offensively, but we gave way too many chances off the rush," said Giordano, who had two assists and leads all NHL defencemen with 13 points in March. March has also been good for Cammalleri, who is tied with Jarome Iginla and Jonathan Toews for the most goals in the month with nine. "One thing were proud of, especially in the last little while, is not giving up as many chances. Tonight, we would like to do a better job of that." Hutton stopped 10-of-11 shots to earn the victory and improve to 16-11-4. MacDonald was tagged with the loss to fall to 4-4-1. He had six saves on eight shots in relief. Nashville got off to a fast start beating Ortio on both of its first two shots in the opening period. At 5:10, Bartley scored his first NHL goal, one-timing a slapshot through Ortios pads. Just 49 seconds later, Weber finished off a give-and-go with Mike Fisher on an odd-man rush. Notes: Kenny Agostino made his NHL debut for the Flames. He played left wing on a line with rookies Sean Monahan and Joe Colborne. Agostinos parents flew in from New Jersey for the game... Calgary RW Jiri Hudler (upper body) returned after missing seven games... Sidelined with upper body injuries sustained in Nashvilles last game were LW Nick Spaling, RW Patrick Eaves and C Paul Gaustad.... Agostino is the eighth player to make his NHL debut with the Flames this season. Marquis Flowers Jersey . The Qatar Open begins Monday in Doha, and the BNP Paribas Open is March 3-16 in Indian Wells, Calif. In a statement released by the Indian Wells event, Williams said: "After careful consideration, I will not return to the Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open this year. 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Henrik Sedin, Alex Burrows and Daniel Sedin had the Canucksgoals and Eddie Lack stopped 41 of the 48 shots he faced. TSN1040 has the Canucks and Capitals tonight beginning at 6:30pm pt. Ryan Miller is expected to get the start in goal after 31-save effort in St. Louis on Thursday. Otherwise it appears the Canucks will go with the same line-up they used in Denver. Ryan Stanton returned to skate with the group for the first time since getting injured in Edmonton on October 17th. Ten different Canucks have accounted for the teams last 11 goals dating back to an Alex Edler goal against Tampa Bay last Saturday (only Jannik Hansen has two in that span). The team has scored in the first minute of each of its past two games (Chris Higgins 41 seconds into Thursdays game in St. Louis and Henrik Sedin 10 seconds after the opening face-off in Denver). Henrik Sedin has been on the ice for 12 of the 22 goals the Canucks have scored this season. At the other end of the ice, Kevin Bieksa has been on for 12 of the 24 goals the team has surrendered. The Canucks 4-3 record after 7 games is the same as it was last season as is the goal differential at this stage (minus-2). On the farm, Jacob Markstrom made 27 saves for his third straight shutout as AHL Utica blanked the Toronto Marlies 4-0 last night. Markstrom is 4-0 on the season with a 0.25 GAA and a 99.1 save peercentage giving up just one goal in his season debut.dddddddddddd He has stopped 108 of 109 shots. He is currently riding a 232:13 shutout string which is 36:04 shy of the longest run in AHL history. And in the WHL, 2014 Canucks first rounder Jake Virtanen scored his first two goals of the season last night in Medicine Hat. He had 2+1=3 on the night and has 2+2=4 in two games since returning from off-season shoulder surgery. He is scheduled to play his first home game of the season tonight when Calgary hosts Prince George. The Capitals are here after a 3-1 victory in Calgary last night. Joel Ward scored twice and Braden Holtby made 20 saves for the win. The Capitals have gained a point in six of their first seven games with their lone outright loss a 3-2 defeat in Edmonton on Wednesday. Only Minnesota and Los Angeles have allowed fewer goals than the 13 Barry Trotzs squad has given up so far this season. At 7/25, the Caps have the third best PP in the NHL (28.0 per cent). Due in part to that success, the Capitals have spent the least time in the league on the power play this season (34:01). Alex Ovechkin has been held off the scoresheet in three straight games. He is five points shy of Peter Bondras franchise record for career points (825). Tonight marks just the fifth time Ovechkin has played an NHL game in Vancouver. He has scored in two of his previous four visits. Jason Chimera is set to play in his 800th career NHL game tonight. 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