Dustin Wolf made 26 saves, and Ryan Strome scored for the Flames.
“Obviously super disappointing,” Strome said. “I thought we had a decent first few minutes of the game. We had a good start and then kind of just unraveled. We’re a team that can't really make any mistakes. We've got to play hard. We've got to play simple and obviously the end result of getting away from that was what you saw tonight. So, I mean, that one stings.”
Eberle gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 9:10 of the first period with a power-play goal. McCann’s shot from the top of the right circle hit Eberle in front of the net, and the puck dropped to the feet of the veteran winger for a tap-in goal.
“I don’t see a necessity to really make a bunch of plays off the face-off of a power play,” Seattle coach Lane Lambert said. “Get pucks to the net and typically you can outnumber them at the net and that’s what happened.”
Dunn scored to put the Kraken up 2-0 just 32 seconds later at 9:42 when his slap shot from the point through traffic beat Wolf inside the right post.
“It’s good to see us start that way,” Dunn said. “It’s good to get the confidence rolling. It’s a quick turnaround after preseason, but by the looks of it, the legs feel good by everyone, and I think everyone really got into that game. It was a pretty well-rounded team effort there, so that’s huge.”
Gaudreau extended Seattle’s lead to 3-0 at 19:30 when he took a cross-ice feed from Kakko and snapped a shot to the top corner over Wolf’s glove.
The Kraken scored goals 51 seconds apart early in the third period.
Stephenson tucked a backhand shot through Wolf’s pads at 3:13 before Beniers took a drop pass from McCann and slapped a shot past the Calgary goalie at 4:04 to put Seattle up 5-0.
“They had their push and obviously we didn’t do enough of what is our identity to get out of it, so it’s on us,” Flames defenseman Zach Whitecloud said. “It’s embarrassing.”
