The locals kept coming, outshooting their guests 14-4 in period one. Former Utahn Olli Määttä danced to the front of the goal from the left side, tucking a backhand just past the right post before Vanecek robbed Blake Coleman with a glove snag off a rebound with 25 seconds to play in the frame.
In the second, it was Wolf’s turn to shine. First, he stoned Weegar on a chance from the slot, getting a piece of the Weegar writer with his catching mitt. Shortly thereafter, he got his blocker hand to a JJ Peterka breakaway effort to keep the scoreline static at 2-0 in favour of the home side.
Finally, Wolf got a pad to a rebound shot from Liam O’Brien, somehow keeping the sharp-angled effort out of his goal with just over four minutes remaining in the frame, leaving O’Brien looking skyward in disbelief.
The Calgary offence kept cooking in the third. Backlund poked home a rebound to make it 3-0 after Coleman won a race to a loose puck in the Utah zone before hurtling head-first into the cage.