A pretty important week for the Calgary Flames kicks off on Monday evening with a pre-season game at Climate Pledge Arena against the Seattle Kraken!

At present, the Flames boast 38 players on their camp roster. Seven days from now, they need to have it down to 23 individuals. They begin the cut-down process with their final road exhibition game, featuring a few players on the bubble… and their top netminder.

Things get going just after 8 p.m. MT, streaming on the Flames website and over the airwaves on Sportsnet 960 The Fan!

The red team is 2-3-0 so far in the pre-season, coming off a 4-2 loss in Winnipeg on Saturday night. In that game they were kinda bad in the first period and then got better, similar to how things unfolded for them against the Canucks in Abbotsford. They’ll need to knock off the slow starts, especially if some of the members of this evening’s group hope to start the season in the NHL.

Via Sportsnet’s Pat Steinberg, lines for Monday’s game:

Dustin Wolf starts in net, backed up by Owen Say.

The fourth-line centre auditions continue, with Rory Kerins and Justin Kirkland both getting linemates that seem fairly fourth-liney. Sam Morton also gets another crack at things, albeit on a more AHL-ish line. On the back end, we get three pairings we may see to start the season between the NHL (Bean/Pachal) and AHL (Cicek/Solovyov and Kuznetsov/Brzustewicz). And hey, Matvei Gridin gets a shot on the top line with a couple exciting young Flames in Frost and Coronato. He performed really well in Winnipeg and gets another shot to showcase himself here.

Seattle is 2-2-0 in the pre-season. They lost to Vancouver on Friday night.

Projected lines via the Kraken website:

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