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Stream hard to kill12/17/2023 ![]() ![]() "Obviously Matty had an unbelievable shot tonight."Ī scruffy line change in the second period led to New York's tying goal. "I think just the way we work, you know, to be able to retrieve pucks and those little plays in tight," Yamamoto said of the power play success. Seattle was in the bottom half of the league last year, ranking just 18th overall at 21.1 percent. The Kraken are now converting on 26.8 percent of their power play opportunties for the season, which is among the top units in the league. Bjorkstrand found Wennberg on the back door of the goal as Seattle grabbed a 2-1 lead with another power play goal. This time it was Oliver Bjorkstrand winning a puck battle against the end boards to create an opportunity. With less than two minutes left in the period, Alex Wennberg scored his second goal in as many nights to give the Kraken the lead. He was able to drive in from the left circle and snapped a wrist shot into the top corner over goaltender Semyon Varlamov to tie the game at 1-1 at the midway point of the period. Matty Beniers worked hard to maintain control of the puck up against the boards and was rewarded for the effort. Scott Mayfield took a pair of penalties for delay of game and slashing to give Seattle two power play chances in the period. ![]() With Brandon Tanev in the penalty box on a high-sticking call, Anders Lee out-muscled Brian Doumoulin for positioning in front of the Kraken net and managed to redirect a pass from Bo Horvat by Philipp Grubauer to give the Islanders a 1-0 lead less than four minutes into the game. Power play opportunities carried the scoring in the first period for both teams. And that's where our focus was coming into tonight." ![]() That's three out of four and a back-to-back and that's a real successful two-game run. But, you know, true to the group in here, we addressed a couple of things that we felt like we could do better and then we just said let's turn the page. "Coming out of last night, that was that was a disappointing loss because we felt like we did so many really good things there. "We've had nights where we haven't been certainly happy with with our overall effort and play," head coach Dave Hakstol said. After falling 4-3 in Edmonton to the Oilers on Wednesday night, the Kraken managed to do just enough to get a critical two points against a struggling Islanders team. The Kraken converted three chances on the power play to force overtime for a second straight night. "I mean obviously we haven't been as successful as we wanted to in the past in those and today we showed we can show up and close the game for us to get a win." "It's a skills competition so it's really unpredictable what's going to happen," defenseman Vince Dunn said. ![]()
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