The Calgary Flames headed to Climate Pledge Arena in scenic Seattle, Washington on Wednesday night to close out their three game road trip with their fourth (and final) meeting of the season with the Kraken.

The Flames were the better team early but the Kraken gradually found their speed, turning this into a pretty competitive, back and forth game. Deadlocked after three periods, the Flames couldn’t muster a second goal and lost in overtime to Seattle by a 2-1 score.

The Flames carried play in the first period, looking fast, making plays, and eventually opening the scoring.

Off a nice little bit of cycling, a Zach Whitecloud point shot was deflected by Yegor Sharangovich and wobbled past Joey Daccord to give the Flames a 1-0 lead.

Seattle’s Berkly Catton scored on a partial breakaway a little while later, but the goal was disallowed after a coach’s challenge by the Flames as the zone entry was off-side.

The Kraken gradually took the game over during the second period. Midway through the frame, Catton actually scored, as he took a pass from Mackie Samoskevich off the rush and fired a wrister that beat Dustin Wolf to tie the game at 1-1.

Both teams had some decent offensive chances in the third period, with Seattle getting more chances (and more dangerous ones). Neither team was able to get the go-ahead goal in regulation, so this game headed to overtime.

In extra time, the Flames had some offensive zone time, but a Matvei Gridin pass attempt to Matt Coronato was intercepted by Brandon Montour. Montour sent Matty Beniers in on a breakaway and Beniers beat Wolf to end this game as a 2-1 Kraken victory.

Give the Kraken credit: they were kinda clunky in the first period, playing fairly slow and looking disconnected. They made adjustments and got better – and faster – as the game wore on.

Give the Flames credit: playing the third game of their road trip, and their fifth game in eight days, they started strong. They faded a bit later in the game, but they did a pretty capable job of defending intelligently against Seattle’s speed, but just couldn’t generate a ton offensively in the back half of the game.

Man, Joel Farabee was consistently noticeable in this game, to the point where he was double-shifted late in the third period.

If we’re being honest, the Flames were on their heels a bit in the third period. We’ll give stick taps to a pair of third period penalty kills that kept the game tied at 1-1.

But we’ll also think about a Joel Farabee breakaway chance midway through the third period that he wasn’t able to bury.

The Flames looked like this against Seattle:

Joel Farabee – Mikael Backlund [C] – Matt Coronato
Matvei Gridin – Martin Pospisil – Ryan Strome
Yegor Sharangovich – Morgan Frost – Aydar Suniev
William Stromgren – Jonathan Castagna – Adam Klapka

Kevin Bahl – Simon Nemec
Jake Middleton [A] – Zach Whitecloud [A]
Yan Kuznetsov – Zayne Parekh

Dustin Wolf started in net, backed up by Arsenii Sergeev. The healthy extras were Joel Hanley and Maxim Tsyplakov. Jonathan Huberdeau, Sam Honzek, Devin Cooley and Brennan Othmann missed the game due to injury.

The Kraken wore their Hometown Remix jerseys for the first time. They feature their anchor secondary logo and look pretty sharp.

Morgan Frost’s assist on Yegor Sharangovich’s first period goal was the 200th point of Frost’s NHL career.

Because of Alberta not doing daylight savings anymore, this game began at 9:08 p.m. Alberta Time and ended at 11:39 p.m. Alberta Time, perhaps the latest a regular season game has ended in recent memory.

Join Cami Kepke and Mike Gould right after the game for After Burner!

The Flames (7-8-1) are headed home. They host the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night at the Saddledome.

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