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CALGARY – Rookie Samuel Honzek continued his scoring streak on Monday with a superb short-handed effort as the Calgary Flames beat the Seattle Kraken 4-3 in overtime.
The 19-year-old Slovakian, who was the Flames’ first-round pick, 16th overall in 2023, sits alone atop the NHL’s preseason scoring leaders with seven points (including two goals) in five games .
Brayden Pachal, Blake Coleman, and Nazem Kadri – with the game-winner on a slick setup by Andrei Kuzmenko – also scored for Calgary (5-0-1), which has yet to lose in regulation.
Eeli Tolvanen, Ville Ottavainen and Shane Wright replied in favor of Seattle (1-3-1).
In his first full game after playing two innings in each of his first two starts, Dan Vladar – coming off offseason hip surgery – made 30 saves for the win.
At the other end, Joey Daccord made 23 stops for the Kraken.
Tied 2-2 after the first period, Seattle had several chances to take the lead early in the second when Calgary took four penalties in the first six minutes.
But not only did the Flames kill the extended power play time for the visitors that featured a pair of two-man advantages, Honzek ignited the home crowd with his highlight reel goal at 6:33.
Started on a 1-on-1 pass by Yegor Sharangovich, he skated down the right wing through the neutral zone and into Seattle’s end where he used his 6-foot-4 frame to power his way around defenseman Vince Dunn , then as he cut across the front of the net, neatly axed Daccord’s puck check before putting the puck in as it fell to the ice.
Honzek, who turns 20 on November 12, played last season with the WHL’s Vancouver Giants where injuries limited him to just 33 games in which he had 31 points (10 goals, 21 assists).
After taking the lead, the barrage continued in the second for the home side with a Blake Coleman penalty with seven seconds left — Calgary’s sixth of the period — ultimately costing them with Wright scores 39 seconds into the third to tie it 3-3.
Seattle opened the scoring 3:18 into the game when a Rasmus Andersson turnover was picked off by Chandler Stephenson, who sent a back pass straight into the slot that was buried by Tolvanen.
After Calgary stormed into the lead on goals less than four minutes from Pachal and Coleman, the visitors netted it with 15 seconds left in the period when Ottavainen’s long shot eluded Vladar.
BATTLE OF BARRIE
Collecting a pair of assists for the Flames with secondary assists on both goals in the first period was defender Tyson Barrie, who is in the Flames camp on a professional request. The 33-year-old has three assists in three games. Barrie has played 809 career NHL games and if he were to sign with Calgary, he would be joining his fifth NHL organization. He played last season for Nashville.
UP NEXT
Kraken: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.
Flames: Visit the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday.
This report was first published by The Canadian Press on September 30, 2024.
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