A disappointing night for Abbotsford cannucks after failing to win the Calder Cup on home ice at the Abbotsford Center.
Jesse Puljujarvi spoiled the party in Abbotsford on Saturday evening when he scored at 3:22 p.m. in overtime to lift Charlotte auditors visiting a 4-3 victory on the Canucks.
A closed window crowds at Abbotsford Center hoped to see the Canucks – who entered the match leading 3-1 in the best championship series – hoist the Calder Cup on Home Ice, but the best that the American team of the Hockey League can be won is to win the title at Bojangles Coliseum in North Carolina.
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Ben Steeves, Brett Chorske and Rasmus Asplund also marked for the auditors, who surpassed the 40-32 hosts.
Linus Karlsson scored twice for the Canucks, while Arshdeep Bains had a goal and help.
The checkers, Ahl affiliated for the champion of the Stanley Cup Florida Panthers, swept the Laval rocket in the final of the Eastern Conference, while the Canucks rebounded the Texas Stars in six games in the Western Conference final.
The closed counters of the abbotsford center indicate that the agricultural team of the franchise is an increasing source of media threshing after the Vancouver Canucks had a less than stellar NHL season.
Abbotsford cannucks have already broken UNCHARTED in the Lah, reaching the Calder Cup final for the first time in the history of the franchise.
Toronto Marlies 2017-2018 are the only Canadian team to win the Calder Cup in the past 11 seasons of the AHL.
The sixth game is Monday, June 23.
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