Seattle beat Calgary 6-1 for the second time in four days, dropping the Flames to 0-3 despite Calgary leading several underlying metrics.
Calgary got its rematch with Seattle. Somehow, it got the same score.
The Kraken beat the Flames 6-1 Sunday night at Climate Pledge Arena, matching the result from Calgary’s season opener only three days earlier. Mackie Samoskevich scored twice, Berkly Catton had a goal and an assist, and Joey Daccord made 32 saves as Seattle improved to 2-1-0.
Calgary fell to 0-3-0 and has now been outscored 16-3 to begin the season.
The strange part is how little the box score underneath the score actually looks like a 6-1 game. Calgary outshot Seattle 33-27. The Flames held a 34-26 advantage in 5-on-5 scoring chances and a 14-13 edge in high-danger chances. They won 54.1 percent of the faceoffs and received the only two power plays of the night.
Seattle still won by five.
Three Goals in 7:40 Ended the Rematch Early
The central Calgary problem from the first meeting returned almost immediately. One Seattle goal became another, and then another, before the game had time to settle.
Catton opened the scoring 2:22 into the first period, collecting a broken-up pass in the high slot and beating Dustin Wolf from the left circle. Samoskevich made it 2-0 at 4:40 after Brandon Montour sent a high flip out of the defensive zone and Kevin Bahl lost his footing while trying to retreat.
Bobby McMann scored at 7:40.
Three goals. Three Seattle rush opportunities. A 3-0 game before eight minutes had elapsed.
That was almost exactly the failure Calgary needed to eliminate after the first 6-1 loss. Seattle had scored in rapid clusters in Calgary. The Flames went to Seattle and allowed another cluster before the opening period was half finished.
Calgary Had More of the Puck Than the Score Suggests
This was not 60 minutes of Seattle pinning Calgary inside its own zone.
The Flames officially finished with six more shots on goal. Their own tracking had them ahead in both overall and high-danger 5-on-5 scoring chances. Matt Coronato and Mikael Backlund each put five shots on Daccord, and Calgary generated several opportunities around the Seattle net during the second period.
Morgan Frost had two close-range chances denied. Adam Klapka nearly scored on a wraparound. Calgary had periods of pressure.
The problem was that Seattle’s dangerous moments kept ending in the net while Calgary’s ended with Daccord making another save.
A team can win the shot count and still spend most of the night losing the part of hockey that appears on the scoreboard. Calgary produced volume. Seattle produced consequences.
Daccord Has Owned Calgary
Daccord has now started both Seattle games against Calgary this season. The scores are identical, and his numbers are absurd.
He stopped 24 of 25 shots in the opener and 32 of 33 Sunday. Across the two meetings, Daccord has stopped 56 of 58 Calgary shots, a .966 save percentage.
Seattle has outscored Calgary 12-2 with Daccord in net.
Sunday was especially important because Calgary did create enough chances to make the game more competitive. Daccord prevented that pressure from becoming a comeback, and Seattle kept turning the saves into opportunities in the other direction.
Lane Lambert specifically credited Daccord with allowing Seattle to find its rhythm after Calgary generated chances early. By the time the Flames finally solved him, the game was 5-0.
Samoskevich Made His Home Debut Count
Samoskevich’s first two goals as a Kraken arrived in the same game.
His first came from speed. Montour lifted the puck into space, Samoskevich won the race and slipped a backhand between Wolf’s pads. His second came late in the second period after former Michigan teammate Matty Beniers found him on a 3-on-2 rush.
Samoskevich finished the play with a wrist shot from the right circle to make it 5-0.
Seattle acquired the 23-year-old from Florida during the offseason and signed him to a three-year contract. His first home game immediately showed why the Kraken were willing to spend draft capital to add another young scoring winger.
Catton also scored his first goal of the season after waiting until his 28th NHL game to score his first as a rookie last year. Shane Wright added the fourth Seattle goal, and Jordan Eberle finished the scoring in the third.
Wolf Had Another Brutal Night Against Seattle
Wolf allowed six goals on 27 shots Sunday after allowing six on 32 shots in the season opener against the same opponent.
Across two starts against Seattle, he has faced 59 shots and allowed 12 goals.
The numbers are ugly. The film is more complicated. Calgary repeatedly gave Seattle clean transition opportunities, lost important races and allowed shooters to attack with space. Wolf also failed to erase enough of those breakdowns to give the Flames any chance to recover.
That combination is how a team can allow 27 shots and somehow surrender six goals.
Ryan Huska described Calgary as disconnected afterward, saying that one player going off script keeps turning into another puck in the net. Through three games, the Flames have provided plenty of evidence for the diagnosis.
Calgary Finally Scored When It Was 5-0
The Flames’ only goal came with 5:35 remaining.
Matvei Gridin found Frost at the back post on the power play, and Frost redirected the puck past Daccord to end the shutout. Calgary finished 1-for-2 with the man advantage.
Seattle never received a power play.
That might be the strangest statistic in the entire game. The Kraken scored six times without a single man-advantage opportunity. Calgary had the better special-teams opportunity count, the better shot count and the better faceoff percentage and still lost 6-1.
Eberle restored the five-goal margin 39 seconds after Frost scored.
Calgary Has Scored Three Goals All Season
The larger problem now extends beyond one opponent.
Calgary has played Seattle twice and Vancouver once. The Flames scored one goal in all three games.
Strome scored in the opener. Coronato scored in Vancouver. Frost scored Sunday.
Three games, three goals, three different scorers and an 0-3 record.
The Flames already entered the season needing to improve an offense that finished last in the NHL at 2.54 goals per game in 2025-26. Jonathan Huberdeau remains unavailable following hip surgery. Three games are nowhere near enough to establish a season-long rate, but the opening problem is familiar enough that Calgary cannot dismiss it as random noise.
The team has created some chances. It has generated some shot volume. Very little has become a goal.
Seattle’s 2-1 Start Needs One More Test
The Kraken have started well. They have also built both of their wins against the same struggling opponent.
Seattle has beaten Calgary 6-1 twice and lost 3-1 in Edmonton. That gives the Kraken a 2-1 record and a plus-9 goal differential through three games, but it also creates a fairly obvious question about how transferable the Calgary results are.
Tuesday should help answer it.
Vegas visits Climate Pledge Arena after improving to 2-1 with a 3-2 win in Vancouver Sunday. Mitch Marner scored his first goal of the season, Victor Olofsson scored on the power play and Marc Gatcomb supplied the winner late in the second period.
That gives Seattle a much different opponent. The Golden Knights can send Jack Eichel, Mark Stone, Marner and Tomas Hertl through a lineup built to punish the same transition mistakes Calgary has been making.
The Kraken have demonstrated that they can destroy a team when those mistakes appear. Vegas will test whether Seattle can create the same opportunities when the opponent is considerably less generous.
Vegas Opens as the Favorite in Seattle
Early Monday pricing has Vegas around -180 to -182 for Tuesday’s game in Seattle, with the Kraken approximately +145 to +150. The early total is 6.5.
Those numbers are an early snapshot and should be refreshed before publication or puck drop. Seattle’s 6-1 win had only just been completed when the market began updating, and starting-goaltender information can move an NHL line materially.
The market still making Vegas a significant road favorite is useful context. Seattle has scored 12 goals in its two wins, yet bettors are being asked to distinguish between destroying Calgary and doing the same thing against a Golden Knights team with considerably more proven scoring depth.
Calgary Gets Three Days to Reset
The Flames finally get some time away from game action.
Calgary is off Monday, practices Tuesday and Wednesday, then returns home Thursday against Colorado. The Avalanche are currently 2-0 and have scored 14 goals in two games, including a 6-1 win over St. Louis on Saturday.
Martin Necas scored twice in that win, Artturi Lehkonen added another and Nathan MacKinnon had three assists. Colorado’s top line combined for eight points.
The schedule gives Calgary one small advantage: Colorado plays in Winnipeg Wednesday before traveling to Calgary for the second half of a back-to-back Thursday.
There was not yet a sufficiently reliable consensus sportsbook line for Colorado-Calgary on Monday morning to publish one here. That market can be added once major books have posted broadly available prices.
Colorado Is an Awful Opponent for This Problem
Calgary now has several days to work on its defensive connections. The next opponent makes those corrections urgent.
Colorado has opened with an 8-4 win over Los Angeles and a 6-1 win over St. Louis. The Avalanche have enough speed and finishing talent to turn exactly the kinds of isolated Calgary mistakes Seattle punished into another very long night.
The Flames can take some useful information from Sunday’s underlying numbers. Generating 33 shots, 34 5-on-5 scoring chances and 14 high-danger chances gives the coaching staff something more useful to work with than a game where nothing was created.
The conversion problem remains enormous at both ends. Calgary needs more of its own chances to become goals and fewer opposing mistakes to become immediate goals against.
The Rematch Wasn’t Closer at All
The reasonable expectation entering Sunday was that Calgary would correct enough from its opening-night disaster to make the rematch competitive.
The Flames actually did improve several process numbers. They put more pucks on net. They generated more recorded 5-on-5 chances. They created more high-danger opportunities. They stayed out of the penalty box.
The score remained 6-1.
That may be the most useful early warning for Calgary. The Flames cannot point to one obvious statistical category and assume correcting it fixes the team. Against Seattle, the failures have been concentrated into the moments that carry the greatest cost: turnovers, defensive disconnects, breakaways, rushes and finishing.
Final: Seattle Kraken 6, Calgary Flames 1. Seattle is 2-1 and gets a much stronger measuring stick Tuesday against Vegas. Calgary is 0-3, has been outscored 16-3 and now gets three days to figure out why a game in which it led the shot count and scoring-chance count still became another five-goal loss.
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