Calgary went a perfect 4-0 against the Kraken in Seattle's inaugural campaign last season.
The Flames shook up their lines for a fresh look across the board in the tilt with Adam Ruzicka made his season debut in the contest for Calgary. Check out the The Lineup below for who skated with who.
Nikita Zadorov, Nazem Kadri, Tyler Toffoli and Trevor Lewis scored for Calgary, while Dan Vladar made 21 stops.
Toffoli also had an assist and now has 400 career points.
Carson Soucy opened the scoring with his first of the year at 14:15 when he snapped a wrister high glove side past Vladar.
Zadorov and Jamie Oleksiak had a quick tussle with just under five minutes to play in the opening frame, but heading to the dressing room for an early intermission break.
The Flames nearly tied it up not long after.
Mikael Backlund did the leg work to get a puck out of the Flames zone, chip it up, get around a defender, then collect it again and try and feed Dillon Dube, the biscuit deflecting off a stick but eventually finding Dube who was robbed by a prone Joey Daccord who kicked out his left pad for the stop.
Milan Lucic had 'a-shift-and-a-half' with time winding down, laying three big hits - two of them knocking Kraken players to the ice in quick order, first dumping Jordan Eberle in the near the Seattle blueline and then hammering Matty Beniers in the Flames zone.
The Flames killed a pair of penalties in the frame, including 36 seconds of 5-on-3 from Seattle.
Calgary came out flying in the second period, recording the first six shots of the period, including one on the powerplay when Andrew Mangiapane was robbed on a one-timer.
Zadorov got the Flames on the board with their 10th shot of the frame at 6:28 off an absolutely sublime cross-ice feed on the rush from Toffoli, the blueliner tipping home the tape-to-tape pass into an open cage on the backdoor. Elias Lindholm got the other helper.
