Morgan Frost scored his first goal with the Calgary Flames as they held on to beat the Seattle Kraken 3-2 on Sunday night.
Yegor Sharangovich had a goal and an assist, while Jonathan Huberdeau also scored for Calgary, which won for the second time in its last five games. Goaltender Dan Vladar made 29 saves to earn his first win since December 10.
Kaapo Kakko and Brandon Tanev scored for Seattle, which fell 10 points behind Calgary in the race for the Western Conference’s second wild-card spot. Joey Daccord stopped 32 of 35 shots for the Kraken.
The game was largely decided in a four-minute stretch late in the first period, after Seattle had a goal disallowed for goaltender interference.
Frost, who was traded to Calgary from the Philadelphia Flyers along with Joel Farabee on Thursday, scored his first goal for the team at 14:03 of the first period. Frost took a pass from Sharangovich at the blue line, cut through two Kraken defenders, and scored with a wrist shot from the high slot.
Just over a minute later, Calgary’s Brayden Pachal hit Andre Burakovsky high near center ice. Jared McCann of Seattle took exception and fought Pachal, resulting in McCann getting a double minor for roughing, while Pachal was penalized for two minutes.
On the resulting power play, Mikael Backlund passed the puck to Sharangovich, who was rushing toward the net. Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak hooked Sharangovich’s right arm before he could get a shot off, but the puck slid past Daccord’s pads at 16:43.
The Kraken challenged the goal, arguing that Sharangovich had interfered with Daccord’s glove. After a video review, the officials ruled there was no interference, and the goal stood, making it 2-0. This also gave the Flames a five-on-three power play due to Oleksiak’s penalty and a delay of game call on the Kraken for the failed review.
Calgary made the most of the two-man advantage, with Nazem Kadri setting up Huberdeau for a one-timer from the right wing at 17:56, extending the lead to 3-0.
The Kraken answered with goals from Kakko at 14:31 of the second period and Tanev at 5:41 of the third, but they couldn’t find the tying goal.
