NHL 🔴ALL GAMES LIVE🔴 Calgary Flames at Seattle Kraken JAN/27/23 Full Game Reaction
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Last season, the expansion Seattle Kraken faced frequent comparisons to the Vegas Golden Knights, who reached the Stanley Cup Final in their inaugural campaign.
Perhaps because the fledgling Kraken finished just 27-49-6, there's been little comparing them to the Golden Knights this winter.
Yet entering a Friday night game against the visiting Calgary Flames, the Kraken are not only tied with Vegas for the Pacific Division lead, but they are on pace to shatter the Golden Knights' record for most points in an expansion team's second season.
At 28-14-5, Seattle has already exceeded last season's win and point totals. The Kraken are currently on pace for 106 points, which would be the most for a second-year team since the NHL went from the Original Six to 12 teams in 1967-68. Vegas holds the record with 93 points.
Bjorkstrand, acquired via trade in an offseason salary dump by the Columbus Blue Jackers, scored twice Wednesday as the Kraken defeated visiting Vancouver 6-1.
It was Seattle's first victory in seven meetings with the Canucks (1-5-1).
Seattle coach Dave Hakstol wasn't pleased by a hit Vancouver's Tyler Myers put on rookie of the year candidate Matty Beniers early in the second period.
Beniers, who is scheduled to represent the Kraken in next week's All-Star Game, appeared to hit his head on the ice after being checked by Myers. The officials issued an interference call against Myers on the play because Beniers didn't have the puck.
Beniers took three more shifts Wednesday before sitting out the third period. Hakstol said Beniers likely would be a game-time decision on Friday.
While the Kraken are 2-0-1 in their past three games, the Flames have had a disappointing week at home.
Calgary struggled to defeat Columbus 4-3 in overtime on Monday, then lost 5-1 to Chicago on Thursday. The Blue Jackets and Blackhawks have the two lowest point totals in the NHL.
The Flames enter Friday below the playoff line in the Western Conference -- tied with the Colorado Avalanche for the final wild card but behind in the tiebreaker -- after winning the Pacific Division last season.
Calgary goaltender Jacob Markstrom made 24 saves against the Blackhawks, yet he received no more than one goal from the offense for the 10th time this season.
The Flames were without defenseman Chris Tanev on Thursday because of an upper-body injury, and he will sit out again on Friday.
Kraken projected lineup
Forwards
Brandon Tanev - Alex Wennberg - Jared McCann
Eeli Tolvanen - Yanni Gourde - Oliver Bjorkstrand
Andre Burakovsky - Ryan Donato - Jordan Eberle
Daniel Sprong - Morgan Geekie - John Hayden
Defencemen
Vince Dunn - Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak - Will Borgen
Carson Soucy - Cale Fleury
Goalies
Martin Jones
Philipp Grubauer
Scratched: Max McCormick
Injured: Joonas Donskoi (upper body), Chris Driedger (lower body), Jaden Schwartz (undisclosed), Justin Schultz (undisclosed), Matty Beniers (upper body)
Flames projected lineup
Forwards
Dillon Dube - Elias Lindholm - Tyler Toffoli
Milan Lucic - Nazem Kadri - Jonathan Huberdeau
Andrew Mangiapane - Mikael Backlund - Blake Coleman
Jakob Pelletier - Trevor Lewis - Walker Duehr
Defencemen
Noah Hanifin - Rasmus Andersson
Nikita Zadorov - MacKenzie Weegar
Connor Mackey - Michael Stone
Goalies
Dan Vladar
Jacob Markstrom
Scratched: Adam Ruzicka, Dennis Gilbert
Injured: Brett Ritchie (upper body), Chris Tanev (undisclosed)
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