Kraken beat Blackhawks 7-3 for 4th straight victory

SEATTLE — Jordan Eberle, Jared McCann and Daniel Sprong every had a purpose and an help and the Seattle Kraken beat the Chicago Blackhawks 7-3 on Saturday night time for his or her fourth straight victory.

The second-year Kraken, who clinched their first Stanley Cup playoff spot Thursday, additionally received objectives from Eeli Tolvanen, Yanni Gourde, Adam Larsson and Morgan Geekie. Jamie Oleksiak had three assists.

Martin Jones made 15 saves two durations, then was changed by Philipp Grubauer initially of the third. Grubauer had 11 saves.

Seth Jones scored twice for Chicago, which misplaced for the tenth time within the 11 video games and is tied with Columbus for the fewest factors within the NHL with 56. Lukas Reichel additionally scored and Petr Mrazek made 24 saves.

Tolvanen put Seattle on the board simply 4:48 into the sport, firing it in from the center of the left circle for his 18th. The Blackhawks tied it simply 57 seconds later when Jones scored from low within the slot.

Eberle, together with his twentieth, and Gourde, together with his thirteenth gave the Kraken a 3-1 lead by the tip of the primary. Eberle’s purpose made him the fifth Kraken participant this season with no less than 20.

PHOTOS: Kraken beat Blackhawks 7-3 for 4th straight victory

“That’s been our situation all year, and our strength all year,” he mentioned. “Every line, we’re getting contributions from different guys, different lines different defense pairings, whatever it may be. That’s obviously a big skill to have going into the playoffs.”

With a postseason berth already secured, Kraken coach Dave Hakstol mentioned a few of what he termed “sloppy” play was sure to occur Saturday.

“Some of that is inherent, coming off a big win the other night,” he mentioned. “You can talk yourself out of that as much as you want, but really, some of that leaked into our game tonight. It cost us some zone time. It looked sloppy, it felt sloppy at times, even though we didn’t give up a ton of chances. The guys know it, and we’ve got to make sure we clean that back up.”

The Blackhawks had been nonetheless down simply 5-3 and saved the strain on by an excellent portion of the third interval earlier than McCann, together with his thirty ninth purpose, and Geekie together with his ninth, scored simply three minutes aside to place the sport out of attain.

“I thought the first 12 minutes of the third period, we were the better team,” coach Luke Richardson mentioned. “We were really putting pressure on them. Then about a minute before they scored their sixth goal, we started turning pucks over and started going sideways on our game plan. They’re too quick a team to turn pucks backward. That’s what happened on the last two goals.”

NOTES

Jujhar Khaira appeared to attain for the Blackhawks with 3:14 left within the second interval. however Seattle challenged it instantly for offside and the purpose was waved off. … With 98 factors, Seattle is simply two behind the third-place Los Angeles Kings within the Pacific Division. L.A. has two video games left; the Kraken have three. … Seattle killed off two of its three short-handed conditions on Saturday, and now has killed off 61 of 69 since Feb. 14.

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