In Seattle, a three-goal third period helped propel the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 5-1 win over the Kraken on Friday night.
Five different skaters had strikes for the Canucks in the win.
Thatcher Demko made 23 saves in the win.
Vancouver broke the game open in the third when Sam Lafferty and Nils Hoglander scored less than three minutes apart to turn a 2-1 lead into a 4-1 bulge.
“[The third period] was one of our better periods for just game management of the puck,” Canucks coach Rick Tocchet said. “I really liked our third, and it was a professional third period.
“… I think everyone’s waiting for us to fall apart. But these are nice wins.”
Vancouver improved to 14-6-1.
The Canucks took a 1-0 lead at 5:05 of the first period on a shorthanded breakaway form Teddy Blueger,.
“That’s kind of the bottom line is putting the puck in the back of the net,” Blueger said. “I thought we had some good zone time in the last couple games and some good chances, which is good. … Hopefully you can build some confidence off that and keep that going.”
Dakota Joshua pushed the advantage to 2-0 at 12:07 of the middle frame.
Seattle dropped to 8-9-5,
“We had too many guys below the bar tonight, and that’s the bottom line,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “Both individually and collectively, this is not a part-time league. It’s a full 60-minute league.”
Tye Kartye was the lone striker for the Kraken, his second period goal trimmed the Canucks lead at the time to 2-1.
“It’s not an effort issue, it’s a readiness issue,” Hakstol said. “They were the more-ready team at the drop of the puck, and you saw that in our execution in the first five minutes of the hockey game.”
Vancouver’s Ilya Mikheyev scored at 17:30 of the third for the 5-1 final.
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Joey Daccord made 22 saves in the loss.
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