VANCOUVER - Joni Ortio had to overcome a lot more than the Vancouver Canucks to record the first shutout of his NHL career.The rookie goalie made 36 saves to help the Calgary Flames blank their Pacific Division rivals 1-0 on Saturday following a 48-hour ordeal that included lost baggage, a cancelled flight and a new pair of contact lenses.Ortio was recalled by the Flames from their AHL affiliate on Wednesday after Karri Ramo went down with an injury, but didnt join the team until Friday afternoon.It wasnt fun, Ill tell you that much, said Ortio. There was a huge snowstorm in Chicago and I kind of got stranded there and cancelled my flight and I went through Toronto and Winnipeg on my way to Calgary.I know shorter routes than that.To make matters worse, the airline lost his luggage — including his contacts — and sticks somewhere in transit.I dont know where, but I got replacement (contact lenses), said Ortio. My gear made it, thank God.The 23-year-old shook all that off to help Calgary (22-18-3) snap a three-game losing streak and pick up its first victory over Vancouver since March 2013.Ortio — who played his first game in the NHL this season and just the 10th of his career — is also the first Flames goalie to shut out the Canucks since Miikka Kiprusoff did it in a 1-0 victory back on Nov. 5, 2005.The pair also just happen to both be from Turku, Finland.When I was growing up, when I was little I looked up to (Kiprusoff) a lot when he was playing back home for my hometown team and then when he came over I kept following him, said Ortio, who backed up Jonas Hiller in Fridays 6-5 loss to the Florida Panthers. Hes been a big influence on my career for sure.It makes it more special. I think it was about time someone shut out the Canucks.Mikael Backlund scored in the first period for a Calgary team that came in 0-6-3 over its last nine against Vancouver.Joni didnt have it easy coming in here, tough couple travel days and didnt get much sleep so it was great to see him have a great performance, said Backlund. Obviously it pumps us up when he makes some big saves and without him we wouldnt have won the game. He was player of the game for sure.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 — and No. 1 goalie Ryan Miller both werent feeling well on Saturday. Neither skated in the morning, but Lack was deemed the healthier of the two and got the nod.Sometimes I feel like you can have your best games when youre not feeling good, said Lack, his voice cracking. If I didnt feel good enough to play I would never play.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 games first 40 minutes.All I gave them was the iron, he joked. No, I got lucky there too but sometimes you just gotta earn your luck.Vancouver continued to press late, but Calgary found a way to hang on late despite playing its second game in as many nights thanks to their rookie netminder.Great performance, said Flames head coach Bob Hartley. I thought he was in control from the first shift, his rebound control was great, great focus, big win.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 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 Calgarys 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.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.Its frustrating, said Henrik Sedin, whose team was 2-3-0 on its five-game homestand. We know how big every point is. To not get two from this game is disappointing for sure.The Flames didnt 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 faced 15 shots in the first period and 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, who will have quite a story to tell about his first NHL shutout when his careers done.I guess I needed that adversity, he said. 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He was also the most important Montreal Canadien in the life of the franchise. Not Maurice Richard. Not Guy Lafleur. Jean Beliveau. When Beliveau ascended to the Habs lineup for good in 1953, the Toronto Maple Leafs reigned as hockeys dominant team with nine Stanley Cups to the Canadiens seven. Seventeen more championships would follow in Beliveaus lifetime. He would win ten as a player including five as captain. He would gain seven more as a club official. No one else in NHL history can approach that level of success. Beliveau, of course, brought the polish to a franchise invigorated by Maurice Richards passion. His countenance on and off the ice, his abundant and obvious decency, his prodigious talent and work ethic infused the organization and positioned the Canadiens as the NHLs gold standard for excellence over four decades. At six-foot-three, Beliveau had every gift that could be bestowed on a hockey player. He was one of a kind, a classic, Hall of Famer Ranger Rod Gilbert once observed. Jean Beliveau was probably the best player ever in the NHL. He was a typical centreman with lanky strides and vision to both sides. You talk about Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Beliveau was as good as them in our time. The best stickhandler of his generation, Beliveau leveraged a small mans skills: agility, imagination, into a package that had not existed before his widely-heralded debut with the Canadiens. He was a giant, Le Gros Bill, a player whose elegance outstripped even his own top-drawer skills. Consider this for a moment. Like Joe DiMaggio, who won nine World Series and is lionized for the way he carried himself, the unquantifiable elements of how Beliveau looked – graceful, confident - dwarfed one of the greatest records in hockey history. The New York Yankees are the dominant personality in baseball because Babe Ruths colorful, reckless genius was followed by DiMaggios seemingly effortless grace. Ruth was a simple man, often a vulgar primitive whose greatness shaped the game into a business. DiMaggio, courted as assiduously by the Yankees as Beliveau was pursued by the Canadiens, gave the Yankees mystique and existed as a counterpoint to the raw emotion delivered by Ruth. The Canadians thrived on a similar dynamic. Richards primal need to score was instantly recognizable in Montreal. Roch Carriers famous tale, The Hockey Sweater, speaks to the desire of Quebec schoolboy to be Maurice Richard. That said, Beliveau became a strikingly attractive role model for another generation of Quebecers who came to see economic success and sophistication as an important element of self-rule. A canny businessman, Beliveau is as said to have earned as much money as Richard while starring for the Quebec Senior Hockey Leagues Quebec Aces. It took a masterstroke from Habs General Manager Frank Selke – he bought the entire league to secure Beliveau - to cut into the young stars bargaining power. Beliveaus personal integrity was inviolate. He was influential in supporting the formation of the NHLs players union in 1967. When the fledgling Quebec Nordiques offered the 39-year-old Beliveau $1 million, (more than he earned in all his seasons with Montreal) for one season on the ice and three more as an executive, he turned them down. Beliveau was coming off a 76-point, 70-game NHL season. That he could no longer compete to his own astronomical standards trumped how easily he would have negotiated the watered-down game in the first days of the WHA. Prime Minister Jean Chretien offered Beliveau the coveted title of Governor General in 1994. Beliveaus family was in the midst of a crisis. He turned the job offer down. I would have been deserting my family, he said. Beliveau withstood the churn of the captaincy in Montreal and he calmly handled the attendant political/media elements. In 1971 when Henri Richard blasted his coach Al MacNeil in the Stanley Cup final, Beliveau squeezed Richards arm as he complained to a reporter about MacNeil.ddddddddddddThe story created a linguistic firestorm but it took merely a touch from Beliveau and Richard did not add another drop of gas through the series. That summer when Beliveau officially retired, the same reporters accorded him a standing ovation. Beliveau was born in Trois-Rivieres and raised in nearby Victoriaville. Life was not easy. Jean, the oldest child, was ten years old when his sister Helene was hit by a car and killed in front of the family home. His father, Arthur, worked for the power company and his mother, Laurette, toiled as a homemaker. He did not play organized hockey until he was 12 but soon scouts were flocking to Victoriaville to see the strapping prospect. One Canadiens operative approached Beliveau on his way home from a baseball game, took him to lunch and laid out $200 in bills to induce him to sign. The boy did not have so much as a dime in his pocket but Arthur mistrusted the standard C form that indentured a player to an organization indefinitely and Beliveau eventually landed in Quebec City. Jean Beliveau brought Victoriaville and his working-class roots with him wherever he went. Nothing comes easily in life, Arthur Beliveau often told his son. Discipline and hard work will make you who you are. I think Ive worked hard all my life and I have always tried to be there whenever the team, the company or my family needed me, Beliveau said. His lifelong maxim was simple enough: give more. When I accept something Ive always said do it right. Take the time. Too often you go to an event, you see athletes or personalities who look at their watch and wonder when it will be over. Maybe one of my secrets is to give the organization or the person more than they were expecting. Those qualities were what his teammates had in mind when they voted him captain in 1961. The move devastated Boom Boom Geoffrion who was coming off a 50-goal season. After a week mulling over his options, Beliveau offered to give the C to Geoffrion but Selke overruled him. I cant tell the players we are going to give it to Geoffrion and not you, Selke said. If Geoffrion isnt happy thats his problem. Always a gentlemanly player, Beliveau tired of being roughhoused by his third season. Hitting people wasnt his nature, said his longtime teammate Bert Olmstead. But I think he realized it was time to stand up and be counted. Beliveau initiated more contact and his penalty minutes surged from 58 the season before to 143 in 1955-56. He scored 47 goals, piled up 88 points and won the first of two Hart Trophies and the Art Ross Trophy. Beliveau had transformed himself into a power forward decades before the term had been coined. He won the brand new Conn Smythe Trophy at 33 years old. He was a first team all-star six times and a four-time runner up for the Hart. Beliveau would finish among the leagues top 10 scorers in 12 of his 15 full seasons. There were, of course, always expectations for more. Beliveaus skill level was so jaw-dropping, a two-goal night would often be characterized as an evening where he should have had three. Its tougher, said Frank Mahovlich who would know something about mile-high expectations. Youre bigger and people are expecting more from you. It wasnt easy for Jean. I played with him and I know, he worked hard in practice and in preparing himself. Beliveau retired in 1971 as the teams all-time leader in playoff points. His 507 goals were second only to Richard. Had Beliveau started with the Canadiens at 20 instead of 22 he could have surpassed the Rockets 544 goals. It would have changed nothing, of course. Beliveau was never about the points. His allure even transcended winning. Few of the obituaries will focus on the hallmark by which everyone else is measured: success. Instead they will speak of decency and dignity and grace, still more categories where Jean Beliveau had no equal and precious few peers. Mike Ulmer is the author of Canadiens Captains. ' ' '