In Seattle, a three-goal second period was enough to drive the Carolina Hurricanes to a 5-1 win over the Kraken on Monday night. Two of the three goals in the middle frame came off the power play.
Frederik Andersen made 22 saves for the Canes in the win.
“You need your best players to be your best players if you want to have any kind of success in this league,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Three games in, but [Svechnikov and Aho] have certainly done their job, so we need to keep that going.”
Andre Burakovsky scored the lone Kraken goal in the second period.
Andrei Svechnikov hit for a double for the Hurricanes.
“We’ve got to focus on defense first; that’s what it’s going to take,” Seattle forward Jared McCann said. “Obviously things haven’t been going our way at the beginning of periods, so we’ve just got to bear down and make sure that we play good defense first.”
Sebastian Aho added a single marker and three points in the win.
“[Svechnikov] is a great player,” Aho said. “You always want to find him because he can put the puck in the net, just a great player.”
Seth Jarvis and Jordan Martinook added single markers for the Hurricanes.
“Special teams were huge for us tonight,” Aho said. “Scoring a couple on the power [play] helps and obviously the PK was solid, so that was the game. I think we moved the puck pretty well and tried to outwork their PK. Those were big goals at the time.”
Philipp Grubauer made 29 saves in the Seattle loss.
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