Morgan Frost knew. So did Adam Klapka.

When the game is on Nazem Kadri’s stick, his Calgary Flames teammates have begun to assume it’ll quickly be game over.

Lately, he’s proving them right.

As Kadri bore down on Seattle Kraken netminder Joey Daccord in overtime on Tuesday night at the Saddledome, Frost and Klapka told teammates on the bench that they’d soon be celebrating. Kadri, who scored a critical third-period goal as well, delivered again to become the first player in franchise history to score overtime winners in consecutive games.

“Frosty gave me a little pop on the chest [during Kadri’s breakaway], ‘Here goes Showtime,’” Blake Coleman said after the win. “Some guys just have that clutch gene, that ‘it’ gene. They want the puck on their stick in a big moment. They've got that calmness and poise with it to make the play that they need to make.”

Klapka had similar faith in the 34-year-old veteran centre, telling backup goalie Dan Vladar to get ready.

“As soon as he went by himself [towards] the net, I told Vladdy to just........

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