In Calgary, the Flames’ five-game winning streak came to an end on Monday night in a 4-2 loss to the visiting Seattle Kraken. 
Philipp Grubauer made 35 saves in the win.
Seattle’s Jared McCann sealed the win with a shorthanded goal at 12:29 of the third period for the 4-2 final.
“It’s huge,” McCann said. “Huge. It puts us right back in it. We feel like we’ve been playing well of late and haven’t gotten the results, and tonight was a good team effort.”
The Kraken improved to 27-23-11 off their third win in four outings.
Seattle struck first on a marker from Yanni Gourde at 4:04 of the opening stanza.
Calgary replied with a power play strike by Andrei Kuzmenko, who had a double on the night, at 7:50 of the middle frame for a 1-1 tie.
“I love the way we try to battle and claw our way back each game that we play, but I think it’s easier obviously in this league to play with the lead, and that starts with better first periods and coming out ready to play,” Mangiapane said. “It’s on everyone.”
Seattle regained the lead on a goal from Oliver Bjorkstrand at 12:34 of the second to send the game to third period with the Kraken up, 2-1.
The Flames dropped to 30-26-.
“It puts more pressure and stress on us now that we have 20 games left in the season,” Calgary forward Andrew Mangiapane said. “Each game is important for us. Trying to crawl back here and we need every two points.”
In the third, Adam Larsson pushed the \Kraken into a 3-1 lead with a strike with 21 seconds gone in the period.
Kuzmenko hit for his double at 7:46 to trim the deficit to 3-2.
“When my team loses, it doesn’t matter how many I score, how many assists,” Kuzmenko said. “It’s not individual sport. I’m a teammate, a team guy. For me, it doesn’t matter if today I score or not score. We lose. It’s a very bad moment.”
Jacob Markstrom made 26 saves in the loss.
In the latest escalation of violence in the NHL this season, Seattle’s Vince Dunn left the ice at 13:41 of the third period after being crushed into the boards by Calgary’s Martin Pospisil.
Pospisil. was assessed a major and game misconduct on the hit.
“Garbage, but not really a whole lot different than the first hit six or seven seconds into the game,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “You run around like that, you probably need to answer when somebody comes to you man-to-man, and that didn’t happen either, so from there I’ll leave it to the League. I thought both hits were just about as bad as you get.”
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