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bren CALGARY ?Like Kim Kardashian #39;s marriage, this one was over early.But it wasn #39;t nearly as messy.The Vancouver Canucks were downright clinical Tuesday night as they picked apart the Calgary Flames and skated to a lopsided 5-1 decision at the Scotiabank Saddledome.It seems to happen every season. The calendar flips from October to November and the Canucks start to play their best, or football games online at least better.This season, it happened a couple of days early. A 7-4 win Saturday night over the Washington Capitals was clearly a boost of confidence for the Canucks and it carried over here Tuesday night.That #39;s 12 goals in two games and defenceman Alex Edler has been in on half of them. Edler had his second straight three-point night, with a goal and a two assists, and now has 12 points in football games online 12 games. It #39;s become clear that Edler is willing and able to pick up the offensive slack left by the off-season departure of Christian Ehrhoff(notes), who had 50 points last season for the Canucks.-I don #39;t know, sometimes you are lucky, I guess,- Edler said when asked where all his offence is coming from.Coach Alain Vigneault thinks it #39;s a lot more than luck.-We have said all al football games online ong that we think Alex is a premiere defenceman in this league,- Vigneault said after the game. -He #39;s got that skill level and that physical frame to be on the best defencemen in the league and he is getting the opportunity to play in different roles. And obviously he has been doing a real good job for us.-Tuesday night, most of the Canucks did a real good job. Especially in the first half of football games online the game.The Canucks played perhaps their best first period of the season, scoring three times to basically wrap up things early.-Our focus and our execution and our determination in the first period was evident right off the hop,- Vigneault said. -We knew we wanted to come here and have a real strong start and we did.-The Saddledome seems to have become a comfortable home away from home for the C football games online anucks. They have now won five straight games in Calgary and are 9-0-2 in their last 11 games against the Flames. What used to be a terrific rivalry has become more than a little one-sided in recent years.About the only downer Tuesday night was the fact that Roberto Luongo(notes), who really could have used a shutout, lost his with just 32 seconds left in the third period when Alex Tanguay(notes) football games online tipped a shot past him.-What are you going to do,- said Luongo, who faced 29 shots. -At this point we are just happy to get the win. Points are what are important. Obviously it would have been nice, but stuff happens.-Luongo clearly likes what he has seen in front of him the last two games.-All four lines are going right now,- Luongo said. -It #39;s nice to watch. Even the fourth line, I think has football games online been one of our best lines. We have been creating some chances on the power play as well. It #39;s nice to get the goal support.-Chris Higgins(notes), who now leads the team with six goals, opened scoring at 7:57 of the first when he was sent in alone on Miikka Kiprusoff(notes) by linemate Jannik Hansen(notes). He beat the Calgary goaltender with a nifty deke to his backhand.-We scored the first football games online goal and then the power play took over,- Higgins said. -Those guys can whip it around pretty good. It was fun to watch from the bench.-Alex Burrows and Daniel Sedin(notes) scored those power-play goals later in the first.And for a change, the Canucks didn #39;t let up in the second, which has been their worst period of the season so far.Max Lapierre did a wonderful job in the corner, where he outb football games online attled Tom Kostopoulos(notes) and then fed a perfect cross-ice pass to Cody Hodgson(notes), who had the whole net to shoot at.-I #39;ll take those any day,- Hodgson said of his third goal of the season, which came at 3:47 of the second. -That was an unbelievable play by Max to suck everybody over and then throw it to me.-After Edler floated a shot through traffic at 11:43 of the second to make it football games online 5-0, the Canucks seemed content to sit on their lead.They had a couple of power-play opportunities in the third and had the likes of Aaron Volpatti(notes), Dale Weise(notes) and Alexander Sulzer(notes) out on the ice.No one can accuse the Canucks of trying to run up the score. They only had seven shots after the first period.-We could have possibly got a few more in the third there but just decide football games online d to give a few players a chance to play in situations that they don #39;t play normally,- Vigneault said.Henrik Karlsson(notes) replaced Kiprusoff, who surrendered five goals on 18 shots, to start the third period.The Canucks improved to 6-5-1. Calgary is now 4-5-1.ICE CHIPS: The Canucks will practise today in Calgary before heading to Minnesota, where they meet the Wild on Thursday night. Minnes football games online ota beat the Red Wings 2-1 in overtime in Detroit on Tuesday night. .The Canucks are now 4-0 when scoring first this season #8230;Daniel Sedin is now tied with Pavel Bure for fourth spot on the Canucks #39; all-time goals list with 254.bziemer@vancouversun.com; twitter.com/bradziemer Play Fantasy Hockey, now with Pro Leagues! And follow Yahoo! Sports' NHL coverage on Twitter. 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