In Calgary, the Seattle Kraken used a five-minute outburst in the third period to erase a 2-4 deficit to the Flames, to score three goals and take a 5-4 road win on Tuesday night.
Daniel Sprong started the Seattle rally to get the Kraken to within one goal, and and Yanni Gourde tied the game, 4-4, midway through the third.
“It was real impressive the way we handled adversity in this game, the ups and downs,” Gourde said. “We trusted the game plan and we stuck to it, and we made it happen.”
Matty Beniers hit for the game-winner about five minutes after the Kraken started the rally.
“I was fired up,” Beniers said. “I was smiling skating down the ice because you know [Eberle’s] dangerous with the puck, whatever he’s going to do. He ended up making a perfect play and gave me a wide-open net on the back side. That was great.”
Joey Daccord made 36 saves in the Seattle win.
It was the second straight for the Flames, who dropped to 5-3-0.
“At the end of the day, you have to be accountable,” Calgary’s Nazem Kadri said. “You own it, you fix it, you watch the film. You try to improve. That’s the name of the game. That’s how the NHL works. It’s a fast game out there. Not every single time it’s going to go exactly the way you drew it up. You’d like to execute, but we’re going to clean that up and that’s certainly something we’re capable of.”
The Kraken improved to 5-4-2.
The loss the second straight where the Flames gave up leads late.
“We’re not a young group of players. We’re definitely one of the oldest and (most) experienced in the League,” Flames defenseman Nikita Zadorov said. “It’s definitely not acceptable for us. It can happen to young teams, but it cannot happen to us. It’s definitely on all of us. We made individual mental mistakes on the ice in crucial minutes, and it cost us the game.”
Seattle took an early lead off a strike from Carson Soucy for a 1-0 advantage.
Zadorov and Kadri put the Flames up, 2-1, but the Kraken replied with a goal from Morgan Geekie to tie it, 2-2.
“Yeah, it wasn’t great,” Beniers said. “We probably would’ve liked to not give up two goals. I think we took a timeout and we kind of banded back together and were like ‘all right we’ve got this, lets calm down, it’s not over yet, we’ve got 18 minutes left.’ Slowly but surely, we got one, and then ‘Gourdo’ made a great play on the PK [and] got another one and we were able to finish it. It was good.”
Tyler Toffoli and Trevor Lewis scored for Calgary to seemingly give them a comfortable, 4-2, lead.
Dan Vladar made 21 saves in the Flames loss.
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