Flames beat Kraken 4-3 in OT on Kadri's 2nd goal of game

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Nazem Kadri scored his second goal of the game 3:58 into overtime, sending the Calgary Flames to a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night.

Adam Klapka and Rasmus Andersson also scored for the Flames, who earned their fourth consecutive comeback win. Matt Coronato had two assists.

Calgary is four points behind streaking St. Louis for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, with three games in hand.

Jaden Schwartz had a power-play goal and an assist for the Kraken, who lost their third in a row. Tye Kartye and Jordan Eberle also scored.

Eberle's ninth goal with 1:30 remaining in regulation tied it 3-all.

Dustin Wolf made 26 saves and improved to 24-14-5.

At the other end, Joey Daccord stopped 33 shots but fell to 23-19-5.

Kraken: Down 1-0 after 20 minutes, Seattle took its only lead in the second period. After Schwartz scored at 10:25, Kartye split the Calgary defense and ripped a shot past Wolf on a breakaway at 18:42. It was just his fifth goal this season and second in the last 30 games for the fourth-liner.

Flames: Calgary captain Mikael Backlund (upper-body injury) returned to practice Monday but was deemed not quite ready to return, missing his sixth game. The team welcomed back MacKenzie Weegar to its blue line after the club’s top-scoring defenseman (six goals, 41 assists) missed the previous game with a lower-body injury.

Kadri tied it 2-all at 13:42 of the third period. The goal came near the end of a four-minute power play after Brandon Montour cut Coronato with a high stick. Andersson’s goal at 15:49 gave Calgary the lead, but Seattle quieted the crowd on Eberle’s goal at 18:30 that came with Daccord pulled for an extra skater.

Seattle dropped to 16-0-1 when leading after two periods. That leaves Minnesota (27-0-0) as the only perfect team on the season. The 2020-21 Tampa Bay Lightning (26-0-0) are the last team to finish a season without a loss in that scenario.

Seattle opens a three-game homestand against the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday, and the Flames host Dallas the same night.

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Seattle Kraken's Andre Burakovsky, left, is checked by Calgary Flames' MacKenzie Weegar during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Daccord, left, grabs a shot from Calgary Flames' Kevin Bahl during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken's Jamie Oleksiak, left, checks Calgary Flames' Adam Klapka during third period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken's Jaden Schwartz, center, scores on Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Daccord, right, blocks the net as Calgary Flames' Blake Coleman, center, loses control of the puck during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken's Ryker Evans, right, checks Calgary Flames' Yegor Sharangovich during second period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken's Mikey Eyssimont, center, is hooked by Calgary Flames' Jake Bean, left, as he shoots on goalie Dustin Wolf during third period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Daccord, centre, blocks a shot from Calgary Flames' Morgan Frost, right, as Vince Dunn, centre left, and Shane Wright look on during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Calgary Flames' Nazem Kadri, right, celebrates his game-winning goal with teammate MacKenzie Weegar during overtime NHL hockey action against the Seattle Kraken in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Calgary Flames' Nazem Kadri, right, celebrates his game-winning goal with teammate MacKenzie Weegar during third period NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Daccord, right, looks back as Calgary Flames' Nazem Kadri scores the game-winning goal during during overtime NHL hockey action in Calgary, Alberta, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of nurses at some of New York City's biggest hospitals could go on strike Monday during a severe flu season, three years after a similar walkout forced some of the same medical facilities to transfer some patients and divert ambulances.

The looming strike could impact operations at several of the city’s major private hospitals, including Mount Sinai in Manhattan, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

Nearly 15,000 nurses could walk off the job early Monday if a deal is not reached, amounting to the largest nurses strike in city history, according to Nancy Hagans, president of the New York State Nurses Association. As of Sunday morning, little progress had been made at the bargaining table, Hagans said. A vast majority of the union's nurses voted to authorize the strike last month.

Like the 2023 labor fight, this year's dispute involves a complicated array of issues, claims, counterclaims and hospital-by-hospital particulars. Once again, staffing levels are a major flashpoint: Nurses say the big-budget medical centers are refusing to commit to — or even backsliding on — provisions for manageable, safe workloads.

This time, the nurses' union also wants guardrails on hospitals using artificial intelligence, plus more workplace security measures. A gunman strode into Mount Sinai in November, and a man with a sharp object barricaded himself in a Brooklyn hospital room this week; both men ultimately were killed by police.

The private, nonprofit hospitals involved in the current negotiations say they've made strides in staffing since 2023. Some of them suggest the union's demands, taken as a whole, are far too expensive.

Scores of nurses rallied Friday in Manhattan, insisting their primary concern was proper caregiving and accusing the medical centers — whose top executives make millions of dollars a year — of greed and intransigence.

“My hospital tries to cut corners on staffing every day, and then they try to fight historic gains we made three years ago,” said Sophie Boland, a pediatric intensive care nurse in the NewYork-Presbyterian hospital system.

The hospitals, meanwhile, have called the union’s strike threat “reckless.” They vowed in a statement Thursday to “do whatever is necessary to minimize disruptions.”

Hagans, the union president, has also stressed that patients should not delay care during a potential strike.

Still, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul expressed concern that a strike could affect patient care, urging both sides on Friday “to stay at the table and get a deal done.”

Mount Sinai has hired over 1,000 temporary nurses and held preparatory drills for a strike that could affect its 1,100-bed main hospital and two affiliates — Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West — with about 500 beds each.

NewYork-Presbyterian said it also had arranged for temporary nurses but, if the strike happens, some patients might be moved to new rooms or advised to transfer to another facility. Montefiore posted a message assuring patients that appointments would be kept.

The same union mounted a three-day strike at the Mount Sinai flagship facility and Montefiore in 2023, when nurses emphasized their sacrifices during the exhausting, frightening height of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national nurse staffing crisis that followed.

The walkout prompted those hospitals to postpone non-emergency surgeries, tell many ambulances to go elsewhere and transfer some intensive-care infants and other patients. Temporary nurses and even administrators with clinical backgrounds were tapped to fill in, but some patients noticed longer waits and more sparsely staffed wards.

The strike ended with an agreement on raises totaling 19% over three years and staffing improvements, including the possibility of extra pay if nurses had to work short-handed.

Now, the union says, the hospitals are retreating from those guarantees and falling short on other promises.

Montefiore, for example, agreed to “make all reasonable efforts” to stop keeping some emergency room patients in hallways while they wait for space to open up in other wards. Yet three years later, nurses still scramble to treat “hallway patients,” Montefiore intensive care nurse Michelle Gonzalez said Friday.

Montefiore has suggested it's made some progress: The hospital told elected officials in a letter in October that there has been a 35% reduction in the time it takes from emergency admission to a clinical unit bed.

Overall, the hospitals say they have greatly reduced nursing job vacancy rates in the last three years, and Mount Sinai and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia Irving University Medical Center say they also have added hundreds of nursing positions.

In recent days, several smaller hospitals — including multiple Northwell Health facilities on Long Island — averted potential walkouts by striking deals or making what the union viewed as adequate progress.

FILE - A medical worker transports a patient at Mount Sinai Hospital, April 1, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)