On Wednesday night, the Calgary Flames went to Edmonton and their offence ran dry in a 4-0 shutout loss to the Oilers.

On Friday night, the Flames returned to the Scotiabank Saddledome, where they had a four game home winning streak running. After a bit of a clunky first period for both sides, the Flames took charge in the last 40 minutes and skated to a 6-2 victory over the visiting Seattle Kraken.

“I thought we were slow and flat in the first period,” said Flames head coach Ryan Huska. “And then I thought we got to our game the second and third and played well for the remainder of it.”

The first period was punctuated by a scrap between Flames forward Adam Klapka and Kraken forward Curtis Douglas, and a power play goal by the Flames after Douglas was tagged with an extra roughing minor for the festivities. Morgan Frost opened the scoring to give the Flames a brief lead, but Seattle’s Freddy Gaudreau scored awhile later to send things into the first intermission deadlocked at 1-1.

But the Flames made some adjustments during the break, including swapping Zayne Parekh to Kevin Bahl’s pairing and putting Simon Nemec with Yan Kuznetsov. The swaps worked, with the Flames out-scoring the Kraken by a 5-1 margin over the remainder of the evening. Seattle starter Philipp Grubauer’s night ended early after allowing four goals on 14 shots. He was replaced by backup Joey Daccord, who allowed two goals on 13 shots.

In addition to Frost’s first-period snipe, five other Flames lit the lamp: Aydar Suniev, Matvei Gridin, Joel Farabee, Matt Coronato and Ryan Strome. The Flames never trailed in the game, and the final 40 minutes looked more like the Flames we saw during the four games prior to the loss in Edmonton: structured, fast, and poised with the puck.

Farabee had three points, placing him and Coronato in a tie atop the Flames’ scoring table after 13 games with 14 points apiece.

“I think we did a lot of good things in Edmonton,” said Farabee post-game. “Obviously we didn’t score, but I felt like our game was kind of right there. And that game, the score I don’t think really told the story. And, you know, in the NHL, it’s just it’s what you do the next day. So you have a loss and just get right back out there. And I thought we came out with a great effort. And, you know, this team’s kind of owned us the first two times we played them. So we wanted to come out with a good effort. And I thought we did that.”

In his first start since a 6-2 loss to Vegas on Oct. 15, Dustin Wolf made 20 saves on 22 shots to pick up his second win of the season.

“I thought it was quiet,” said Huska. “But he made some big saves for us, and that’s important.”

The Flames immediately head to Denver to complete a weekend back-to-back set. They face the Colorado Avalanche at Ball Arena on Saturday night.