from Eric Francis of Sportsnet,

He dropped the gloves to get his team back into the game, he scored the Calgary Flames' opening goal and he was involved in a pair of defensive lapses that led to their undoing.

No one was better positioned to assess the Flames’ third-period collapse than Nikita Zadorov.

“We’re not a young group of players,” said the hulking defenceman following his club’s second consecutive third-period letdown on Tuesday.

“We’re definitely one of the oldest and experienced teams in the league, and it’s definitely unacceptable for us. It can happen to young teams, but it cannot happen to us. It’s definitely on all of us. We made individual mental mistakes in crucial minutes and it cost us the game.”

It’s one thing to blow a one-goal lead in the final 10 minutes against Connor McDavid, like his team did Saturday.

It’s quite another to do it against a Seattle club that trailed 4-2 with 11 minutes left, only to surrender three goals in a five-minute spree that gave the Kraken their franchise’s first winning record.

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