30 Jan 2025; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Kraken goalkeeper Joey Daccord (35) captures the puck during the second period against San Jose Sharks at Climate Phedge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Immagn Pictures When the Seattle Kraken looks at the Western Conference position, it is the Calgary flames that pay attention to their attention.
The Kraken is eight points behind Calgary for the conference’s second and last Wild-Card quay.
Seattle will have a chance to approach when it is worthy of the flames on Sunday evening.
“We are all responsible for how the season has gone so far,” said the Kraken defender Adam Larsson.
Of course, the Kraken would also have to move past St. Louis, Utah and Vancouver to get to Calgary. The Kraken has several games left against each of these teams.
Seattle also has two more matches left with the flames after Sunday. The Kraken won the first meeting between the team this season, 2-1 on October 19 in Seattle after Jordan Eberle’s overtime winner. It saddled Calgary with its first loss of the season after four wins in a row.
The Kraken snapped a two-game skid with a 6-2 victory against visiting San Jose on Thursday. Defender Brandon Montour made twice and forward Chandler Stephenson added one goal and two assists.
Seattle got a spark from defender Vince Dunn, who fought San Jose’s Henry Thrun after the sharks became a little too close to goalkeeper Joey Daccord in a second period confusion in front of the net.
Daccord will probably play in Kraken’s three remaining games before the 4 nations’ facial outages. Philipp Grubauer cleared exception and was sent to Coachella Valley in the American Hockey League to work with her game.
“Our home record has never been good enough,” Dunn said when asked about the second period. “We want to make this place a difficult place to play in. It comes with attitude. Sometimes things happen so (on the ice). I think everyone just came out and fought hard. We obviously know the tough situation with ours (Grubauer) And they come a little after (daccord) a little there, so we had to stand up for him there.
The Kraken coach Dan Bylsma said he had no problems with Dunn dropping the gloves in that situation.
“I think our team and Vince Dunn are best when they are engaged and emotional and play with aggression,” Bylsma said. “If it leads to fisticuffs it’s ok.”
The flames will play their second match in as many nights after a 3-1 loss Saturday to visit Detroit, their third loss in the last four games.
“I think we probably deserved to win, I would say,” said Nazem Kadri, who scored Flames lonely goals. “I liked most of our game. Of course a couple of divisions and they are an opportunistic team, a team that has talent on their list, and they made us pay. For the most part I think we were pretty good.”
Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee debuted their flames after being acquired in a trade on Thursday with Philadelphia Flyers for Andrei Kuzmo, Jakob Pelletier and a couple of drafts.
“I liked them both,” said the Flames coach Ryan Huska about the newcomers. “I thought they were doing a good job. It has been a long couple of days for them and I thought they did a good job. We threw them pretty much in every situation and I thought both guys handled it well.”
Goalkeeper Dustin Wolf made 22 rescues for the flames, which means that the backup Dan Vladar will probably be on the net Sunday in Seattle.
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