Vancouver, BC -- Jarome Iginla and Matthew Lombardi scored 50 seconds apart early in the first period to propel the Calgary Flames to a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks in Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals at GM Place.

Miikka Kiprusoff made 25 saves for Calgary, which bounced back from a 5-3 loss in the series-opener on Wednesday to even the best-of-seven set at a game apiece. The Flames, who head home for Game 3 on Sunday, had not won a playoff game since 1995.

Markus Naslund scored the only goal for Vancouver, while Dan Cloutier finished with 22 saves in defeat.

The Canucks were 4-for-6 on the power play in Game 1, but managed just one goal on five chances with the extra skater on Friday.

"Last game it was all power-play goals," said Kiprusoff. "Today we killed better. That was the difference."

The Flames opened the scoring with a pair of goals before the game was four minutes old.

Iginla scored his first of the playoffs at the 3:06 mark. He had control of the puck behind the net and skated out into the right circle, then snapped a wrist shot past Cloutier on the glove side.

Cloutier was slightly out of position on the play and claimed he was bumped by Calgary's Chris Simon. Simon appeared to brush the netminder as he was hit by a Vancouver defender.

"Simon did a great job of going to the net," said Iginla. "I just waited a bit and had a lot of the net to shoot at. It's great to get one early in the game."

Lombardi then scored just 56 seconds later, knocking a shot from the slot past Cloutier.

"I got a lucky break," said Lombardi. "Their D-man lost sight of the puck, and I just went to the net."

The Canucks failed to score on five shots in the first period, then cashed in a 5-on-3 power play midway through the second.

Sami Salo fired a shot from above the left circle that was blocked in the slot. Martin Rucinsky was able to gain control and fed a pass into the right circle for Naslund, who snapped a shot into an empty cage.

Kiprusoff was flat on the ice after taking a bump from Vancouver's Ed Jovanovski. The big Canucks defenseman was trying to create a screen and simply knocked the netminder to the ice without any contact from a Calgary player.

"Eddie went hard to the net, it was wide open for me," Naslund said.

The Flames protested vehemently, but to no avail.

"Obviously it doesn't matter now," said Kiprusoff about the interference. "All that matters is that we won the game."

Cloutier kept his team in the game with 12 saves in the second period.

The Canucks put the pressure on in the third period, but could not put any of their 11 shots past Kiprusoff.

Vancouver was awarded a power play with 3:06 left in the contest when Toni Lydman was whistled off for high-sticking, but the Flames were able to kill off the penalty.