Matty Beniers scored a power-play goal at 2:58 of overtime as the Seattle Kraken rallied for a 3-2 victory against the host Calgary Flames on Saturday night in the teams’ final game entering the break for the 4 Nations Face-Off.
Shane Wright and Andre Burakovsky scored in the final 6:48 of regulation as Seattle won for the seventh time this season after trailing by multiple goals.
Beniers’ winner, on a wrist shot through a screen from the top of the left faceoff circle, came with Calgary’s Morgan Frost in the penalty box for holding.
Goaltender Joey Daccord made 27 saves for the Kraken, who snapped a three-game winless streak (0-2-1).
Frost and Nazem Kadri scored for the Flames, who lost their fourth straight at the Saddledome. Dustin Wolf stopped 25 of 28 shots.
Trailing 2-0, Wright scored at 13:12 of the third to spark the comeback. Adam Larsson’s shot from the right point was knocked down in front of the net and Wright found the puck and chipped in over Wolf’s blocker.
Seattle tied it at 15:19 as Wright forced a turnover just inside Calgary’s blue line and shoveled the puck to Burakovsky, who snuck the puck between Wolf’s pads on a wrist shot from the left faceoff circle.
Seattle had a 10-9 edge in shots in a scoreless first period, with half of those attempts coming on a two-man advantage. Wolf made a diving glove save on a point-blank backhander by Kaapo Kakko to keep the Kraken off the board.
The Flames opened the scoring at 2:22 of the second. Yegor Sharangovich’s pass sent Frost and Joel Farabee on a 2-on-1 rush. Frost carried the puck down the left wing and beat Daccord high to the glove side on a wrist shot from just inside the faceoff dot.
The Flames doubled their advantage at 6:37 of the third. Jonathan Huberdeau sent a backhanded pass from near the bottom of the right faceoff to Kadri for a tip-in at the top of the crease.
Kraken defenseman Brandon Montour suffered an upper-body injury in the first period and didn’t return.
Flames defenseman Ilya Solovyov and forward Dryden Hunt both made their season debuts after being recalled from the Calgary Wranglers of the American Hockey League. Solovyov skated on the Flames’ top defensive pairing with Rasmus Andersson as Joel Hanley was away from the team to be with his wife for the birth of the couple’s second child.
–Field Level Media
