If Matt Coronato’s upper lip had been just a little stiffer, the Seattle Kraken might have won their game against the Calgary Flames in regulation on Tuesday. When Brandon Montour’s errant stick caught the Calgary forward in the mouth with 9:35 left in the game—while the Kraken held a tenuous 2-1 lead—that top lip (or perhaps gum area?) did, indeed, shed enough blood to earn Montour a second penalty on the play.

On the ensuing double-minor penalty, the Kraken had a fantastic kill going for nearly three and a half minutes. But Nazem Kadri finally broke through to tie the game, giving the Flames a massive momentum boost. Had Coronato’s lip stayed in tact, Montour would have only gotten two minutes, and Seattle would have killed it off and perhaps gotten a boost of its own.

Although the Kraken again rallied to get the game to overtime, Kadri scored again in the OT period, sealing a signature win for Calgary.

Here are Three Takeaways from a 4-3 overtime Kraken loss to the Flames.

Takeaway #1: Another great rally

One characteristic of Seattle Kraken hockey that has mostly survived through the ups and downs of the franchise’s first four seasons is the team’s refusal to quit in games. After Rasmus Andersson gave the Flames a 3-2 lead with just 4:11 left—using Jaden Schwartz as a screen and ripping a slap shot past Joey Daccord’s blocker—Seattle, very much out of playoff contention, absolutely could have packed it in. In fact, most teams in Seattle’s position probably would have.

But the Kraken fought back for the umpteenth time, pounding away with Daccord pulled for an extra attacker until Matty Beniers jammed a rebound and created another chance for Jordan Eberle to whack it through a sprawled Dustin Wolf.

We’ve argued several times that loser points are the worst outcome for the Kraken at this point because they: A) don’t get the mental boost of winning the game, and B) only hurt their draft position by stealing single points in the standings. Still, this was a highly entertaining game to watch, so I was oddly accepting of the loser point on this particular night.

Good on the Kraken for not giving up.

Takeaway #2: Dustin Wolf wins the goalie duel

Joey Daccord gave up four goals on 37 shots in this game, finishing with an .892 save percentage. Believe it or not, in his last 10 starts, he’s been below .900 eight times and is now flirting with dropping below that mark for the season. It’s totally arbitrary, but I’ve always viewed .900 as an important number for a netminder to stay above (worth noting: Philipp Grubauer was well above it every season of his career until he got to Seattle, but he has never been above it for a season as a Kraken).

That trend is concerning for Daccord, but I thought he deserved better in this game. The ice tilted dramatically in Calgary’s favor in the third period, especially after the Montour double minor. Daccord faced 14 shots in the final frame, and with the way momentum shifted, you could really feel both the tying and go-ahead goals coming.

Where things got really interesting in the goaltending department was during the overtime period. Both goalies came up with monster saves, with Daccord’s best coming on a bang-bang pass play through the crease that he slid across to stop. That save left Morgan Frost shaking his head in disbelief.

The most important save of the night, though, belonged to Wolf. More on that in Takeaway #3.

That extra frame was a fun display of goaltending at both ends, but it concluded with Kadri netting his second goal of the game on a breakaway.

Takeaway #3: An overtime gamble goes bad

Kadri’s overtime game-winner came after an interesting decision by the Kraken duo of Eberle and Vince Dunn (Jared McCann was also out there, but he wasn’t as much of a linchpin in the pivotal play).

With a little more than a minute left in the extra frame, Eberle forechecked and stole the puck from Coronato at the offensive goal line. From down low, he spotted Dunn streaking down the slot completely unmarked. He delayed long enough until Dunn was in point-blank shooting range, then laid a perfect pass out for the defenseman to lean on his stick and unleash a one-time missile.

Of course, it was the right pass to set Dunn up for a potential game-winning shot toward Wolf. The only problem? Dunn was the last guy back for the Kraken.

As the pass slid toward the slot, Wolf launched off the goal line and stonewalled Dunn, who got good wood on the one-timer. But Coronato picked up the rebound and headed north, with Kadri—not even attempting to play defense on the play—well ahead of all three Kraken players.

In a way, the Kraken skaters on the ice accepted that they were about to either win or lose the game and pushed all their chips into the middle. Either Dunn rips it home and Seattle celebrates a big-time spoiler win over a divisional rival fighting for a playoff spot, or a breakaway comes back the other direction.

In this case, the latter happened, and the Kraken went bust.