Flames bounce out to sizzling begin in pre-season, burn Kraken in blowout win
SEATTLE — The Calgary Flames and Seattle Kraken each completed with 81 factors final yr within the Western Convention and missed the NHL playoffs by 17 factors.
Each organizations vowed through the low season to do significantly better and make efforts to ice playoff-contending groups this season.
The visiting Calgary Flames confirmed Sunday evening that they intend to stroll that discuss as they scored three unanswered targets within the first interval after which skated to a 6-1 pre-season win over the Kraken at Local weather Pledge Enviornment.
Regardless of being outshot 14-10 within the opening interval, Clark Bishop, Matt Coronato and Adam Klapka put pucks previous Kraken netminder Philipp Grubauer earlier than the sport was 12 minutes previous.
And regardless of being outshot 13-9 within the second interval, Jeremie Poirier scored the lone aim of the body to spice up the Flames’ result in 4-0.
Adam Klapka and Martin Frk scored for the Flames within the third interval and Nathan Villeneuve replied for the Kraken to interrupt Dustin Wolf’s shutout bid. Wolf ended up stopping 33 of 34 pictures.
Coronato, Samuel Honzek and Hunter Brzustewicz every chipped in with two assists for the Flames.
Grubauer completed the evening stopping 15 of 19 pictures, whereas Ales Stezka stopped six of eight within the closing interval for the Kraken.
UP NEXT
Flames: Break up squads play the Edmonton Oilers on Monday, with every crew internet hosting a recreation.
Kraken: Go to the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.
