The Seattle Kraken opened their home schedule with the same formula that worked in Calgary, and it produced the same result: another lopsided win over the Flames.
Seattle jumped all over Calgary early Sunday at Climate Pledge Arena, scoring three times in the first eight minutes on the way to a 6-1 victory. Berkly Catton started the surge, Mackie Samoskevich added the first of his two goals, and Bobby McMann joined in before the first period was even five minutes old. Joey Daccord backed it up again in net with 32 saves.
The crowd got plenty to celebrate from the start, and Daccord gave them reasons to get louder as the night went on. After one glove save, Ryan Lindgren and Freddy Gaudreau earned stick taps for clearing his sightline. Later, after a tougher post-to-post stop on Adam Klapka’s wraparound, the building broke into chants of “Joey, Joey.”
Daccord’s shutout was broken in the third period, but not before he had already put together another strong outing. In Calgary on Oct. 1, his shutout lasted 57 minutes before Ryan Strome scored. This time, Daccord turned aside Igor Sharangovich’s difficult redirection before Morgan Frost finally beat him on the power play with 5:35 left.
Seattle never gave Calgary much breathing room. Catton opened the scoring with a left-circle shot across his body, with Shane Wright and Kaapo Kakko on his line.
Samoskevich then showed off his speed, chasing down Brandon Montour’s floating clear behind the Flames defense and finishing with a backhand for his first Kraken goal. McMann made it 3-0, scoring for the second straight game.
The second period brought more of the same. Wright extended the lead with a no-look backhand from the slot after Catton set him up, and Samoskevich struck again 26 seconds before intermission to make it 5-0.
Calgary finally got on the board when Ville Ottavainen, playing his first Kraken game of the season, was called for high sticking and Frost cashed in on the power play. Seattle answered almost immediately. Jordan Eberle needed just 39 seconds to restore the five-goal cushion, snapping a perfectly placed shot under the crossbar from the top of the right circle.
The home opener also came on the second night of back-to-back games for both teams, after each lost Saturday. And the results from the two meetings with Calgary have been emphatic: the Kraken have outscored the Flames 12-2.
Dustin Wolf stopped 21 shots for Calgary, while Seattle’s two-point night club included Samoskevich, Catton, Brandon Montour, and Chandler Stephenson.
There was also a notable off-ice moment when Sonics legend Detlef Schrempf drew a huge ovation from the video board, and Seattle Mariner Josh Nailor was in attendance.
Jacob Melanson did not dress because of injury, while Josh Mahura, Cale Fleury, and Ben Meyers were healthy scratches.
Seattle finished with 27 shots to Calgary’s 33, and the Kraken went 0-for-0 on the power play while the Flames were 1-for-2.
The two-game homestand wraps up Tuesday against the Vegas Golden Knights, with puck drop set for 6:40 pm.
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