Joel Eriksson Ek had a aim and two assists because the Minnesota Wild defeated the host Seattle Kraken 4-1 Monday evening.
Marcus Johansson, Kirill Kaprizov and Vladimir Tarasenko additionally tallied and goaltender Filip Gustavsson made 23 saves for the Wild, who went 2-2-0 on their four-game journey.
Jordan Eberle scored for Seattle, which misplaced its sixth straight (0-5-1). Philipp Grubauer stopped 25 of 27 photographs however suffered his first regulation lack of the season (4-1-1).
Johansson, who performed with the Kraken of their enlargement season of 2021-22, tallied the go-ahead aim at 8:12 of the third interval on an acrobatic transfer in entrance of the online. Eriksson Ek bought to a free puck on the right-wing boards and backhanded it towards the highest of the crease. Johansson jumped and tipped the puck between his personal legs in a single movement, with the redirection crusing over Grubauer’s shoulder and into the far higher nook of the online.
Kaprizov and Tarasenko scored empty-net objectives at 18:45 and 19:00, respectively, to clinch the victory. Kaprizov’s aim was his team-leading 18th of the season.
Minnesota opened the scoring at 1:18 of the second interval as Jacob Middleton stored the puck within the offensive zone and Matt Boldy drove the puck down the left-wing boards and behind the online. Eriksson Ek skated to the low slot and Boldy discovered him for a snap shot that left Grubauer little likelihood.
The Kraken tied it on the ability play at 6:48 of the interval after Chandler Stephenson received a faceoff within the offensive zone. Jared McCann tapped the puck again to defenseman Vince Dunn on the left level, who returned it to McCann. The ahead despatched a cross-ice move to Stephenson, who had moved from the left to the suitable faceoff circle, and he noticed Eberle on the far put up for a tap-in. It was Eberle’s team-leading ninth aim of the season.
Dunn put a jarring shoulder-to-shoulder hit on Wild ahead Mats Zuccarello on the blue line with about 5 minutes left within the first. Zuccarello took a tough fall along with his helmet bouncing off the ice and went straight to the locker room and did not return. Minnesota’s Danila Yurov got here to Zuccarello’s protection and obtained a double-minor for roughing in a slight scuffle with Dunn, who bought two minutes for roughing.
Seattle rookie ahead Berkly Catton, a first-round decide in 2024, missed the sport with an upper-body harm and is taken into account week-to-week. Catton blocked a shot along with his proper hand late within the Kraken’s 4-3 loss to the Detroit Pink Wings on Saturday.
–Area Stage Media
