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Kraken 5, Canucks 3 

Jani Nyman scored twice. Vince Dunn had three assists. Kaapo Kakko had two assists. The Seattle Kraken topped the Vancouver Canucks in the preseason opener for each team at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle.

It was Lane Lambert’s first game as coach of the Kraken and Adam Foote’s coaching debut with the Canucks.

Eduard Sale, John Hayden, and Jaden Schwartz also scored for Seattle. Joey Daccord made nine saves, allowing two goals; Nikke Kokko made 13 saves, allowing one goal.

Victor Mancini, Chase Stillman and Nils Aman scored for Vancouver. Nikita Tolopilo stopped 13 of 14 shots; Ty Young made six saves in relief.

Sale, selected No. 20 by the Kraken in the 2023 NHL Draft, scored 1-0 at 14:06 of the first period. He did this with a wrist shot that finished a 2-on-1.

Mancini tied it 1-1 at 3:25 of the second period. Nyman then scored the first of his two goals at 10:54. This gave Seattle a 2-1 lead.

Schwartz made it 3-1 at 13:45, and Nyman pushed it to 4-1 at 14:25.

Nyman’s two goals were each assisted by Dunn and Kakko.

Stillman cut it to 4-2 with an unassisted goal at 19:44 of the second.

Hayden gave the Kraken a 5-2 lead at 3:07 of the third period. Aman scored at 7:25 to make it a 5-3 final.

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Flames 3, Oilers 2

 Morgan Frost scored twice. He scored 1:07 into overtime. This helped the Flames past the Oilers at Rogers Place in Edmonton.

Joel Farabee scored a power-play goal, and Dryden Hunt had two assists for Calgary. Ivan Prosvetov stopped 28 of 30 shots.

Matvey Petrov had a goal and an assist for the Oilers. Matt Tomkins made 11 saves.

Darnell Nurse scored at 3:46 of the second period to give Edmonton a 1-0 lead.

Frost tied it 1-1 at 7:14. Farabee then put the Flames ahead 2-1 at 11:02 on the power play. He tapped in a cross-crease pass from Rory Kerins.

Petrov tied it 2-2 at 18:41. He banked in a centering pass from behind the net. The puck deflected off the skate of Cakgary defenseman Ilya Solovyov.

Frost won it in overtime on a wrist shot from the left circle.

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Oilers 3, Flames 0

Kasperi Kapanen scored for the Edmonton Oilers. They shut out the Calgary Flames in split-squad action at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary.

Connor Clattenburg and Riley Stillman scored, and Samuel Jonsson and Nathaniel Day combined to make 20 saves for the Oilers. Jonsson stopped all 12 shots he faced. Day made eight saves in relief after entering the game at 10:29 of the second period.

Devin Cooley made 26 saves for the Flames.

Each team was playing its first game of the preseason.

Kapanen shot off Cooley’s glove and scored from between the hashmarks. This put the Oilers up 1-0 at 2:38 of the first period.

Clattenburg pushed the lead to 2-0 at 8:18 of the third period with an unassisted goal. It was a shot from the slot that beat Cooley over the glove. This happened after a turnover through the middle of the defensive zone by Matvei Gridin.

Stillman scored at 11:46 on a slap shot from the point. The puck went through a screen and beat Cooley glove-side for the 3-0 final.

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Sharks 3, Golden Knights 0

Newcomers John Klingberg , Jeff Skinner and Alex Nedeljkovic shined in their debuts. They played with the San Jose Sharks. The team won against the Vegas Golden Knights at SAP Center in San Jose.

Michael Misa, selected by the Sharks with the No. 2 pick in the 2025 NHL Draft, had one shot on goal in 17:40 of ice time.

Nedeljkovic, who was acquired in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 1, made 24 saves for the shutout.

Carl Lindbom started in goal for the Golden Knights. He stopped 10 of 11 shots. He was replaced midway through the second period. Jesper Vikman made eight saves in relief.

Klingberg is a defenseman who signed with San Jose as a free agent on July 1. He made it 1-0 with a power-play goal at 7:18 of the first period. Tyler Toffoli (one goal, one assist) won an offensive zone face-off. He got the puck to Klingberg. Klingberg’s wrist shot beat Vegas goalie Carl Lindbom. Klingberg played 21:15.

Skinner signed as a free agent on July 11. He made it 2-0 when he scored on a delayed penalty at 19:14 of the second period.

Toffoli scored an empty-net goal at 19:17 of the third period for the 3-0 final.

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Kings 3, Ducks 1

Alex Turcotte had a goal and an assist. The Los Angeles Kings defeated the Anaheim Ducks at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California.

Alex Laferriere and Andre Lee scored for the Kings. Carter George made 20 saves.

Nikita Nesterenko scored for the Ducks, and Ville Husso made 22 saves.

It was the first preseason game for each team.

Nesterenko opened the scoring 1:15 into the first period. He sent a wrist shot from above the right circle. It deflected off the back of Kings defenseman Kyle Burroughs.

Turcotte tied it 1-1 at 4:27 when he banged in a rebound off a point shot from Brandt Clarke.

Laferriere gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead at 6:11 of the third period. Laferriere sent a pass to Turcotte on a short-handed rush. He then crashed the net and tucked in a rebound on the doorstep.

Lee scored an empty-net goal at 18:34 for the 3-1 final.

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