SEATTLE — Jared McCann scored two objectives in his five hundredth NHL recreation, serving to the high-powered Seattle Kraken rout the Arizona Coyotes 8-1 on Monday night time.

Jordan Eberle, Carson Soucy, Will Borgen, Oliver Bjorkstrand, Morgan Geekie and Ryan Donato additionally scored for Seattle, which is three factors up on Winnipeg and 5 on Calgary for the highest wild-card playoff spot within the Western Conference. Philipp Grubauer made 21 saves.

Lawson Crouse scored for the Coyotes, who're winless of their final eight (0-6-2). Ivan Prosvetov, enjoying simply his fifth recreation of the season for Arizona, had 24 saves.

It was the Kraken’s fourth recreation this season with eight objectives, plus one recreation throughout which they scored 9.

Eberle gave Seattle a 1-0 lead 4:54 into the sport on a power-play objective. The Coyotes had the person benefit later within the interval when Kraken star rookie Matty Beniers gained management of the puck behind his personal blue line, took it throughout heart and handed it to McCann within the excessive slot. McCann despatched a wrister into the online at 15:07 for a short-handed objective.

“Matty made a great play on the wall to create a turnover,” McCann stated. “He made the pass and I tried to get to it as quick as I could.”

PHOTOS: McCann helps Kraken cruise previous Coyotes 8-1

While scoring in his five hundredth recreation was particular, McCann stated he by no means actually thought of enjoying that many after being drafted twenty fourth general by Vancouver in 2014. He’s the tenth participant from that draft class to achieve the milestone. McCann performed with the Canucks, Pittsburgh and Florida earlier than coming to the Kraken within the 2021 growth draft.

“It has been a journey for me - definitely not your Cinderella career,” he stated. “I’ve had to grind my way at some points, but I think I’m a better person for it.”

Kraken coach Dave Hakstol made McCann an even bigger a part of the workforce’s penalty kill after the Christmas break, and he has been happy with the outcomes.

“We changed the structure of our kills a little bit, and he fits that structure very well,” Hakstol stated. “He has meshed very well with (Yanni Gourde), and that chemistry has been good.”

Crouse put Arizona on the scoreboard at 4:44 of the second together with his twenty third objective.

Soucy restored Seattle’s two-goal lead on the 11:58 mark. Just three minutes later, McCann picked up the puck behind his blue line, took all of it the way in which to the highest of Prosvetov’s objective crease and drilled hit previous him for his team-leading thirty seventh objective and a 4-1 lead.

Borgen, Bjorkstrand, Geekie and Donato added third-period objectives to finish the rout.

“You don’t look too far back and you don’t look too far ahead,” Hakstol stated. “You simply fear about working and doing what it's important to (so as) to go get two factors - the rating doesn’t matter. “

Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny noticed some positives throughout the first two intervals, however not within the third.

“We had good pace, good pressure, did a lot of good things to generate good scoring chances,” he stated. “We had been in it. I used to be pleased with the play for many of the recreation. Like I stated, we had been doing a number of good issues, then we began to pressure the play a little bit bit.

“We just have to learn to remain a little bit patient.”

NOTES

McCann has three of Seattle’s 5 short-handed objectives this season. … Daniel Sprong, Vince Dunn and Adam Larsson every had two assists. Dunn’s pair gave him 200 profession factors. … It was the primary assembly this season between the Kraken and Coyotes - the 76th recreation for Seattle and 78th for Arizona. They’ll play twice extra within the subsequent seven days: Thursday in Seattle, subsequent Monday in Tempe.

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