In Winnipeg, the visiting Seattle Kraken surrendered yet another lead in their final game of their inaugural NHL season. The result was a 4-3 loss to the Jets on Sunday afternoon.
Winnipeg scored three times in the third period to erase a 3-1 Kraken lead.
Paul Stastny picked up his 800yh career NHL point in the win with an assist.
“Playing with [Wheeler and Nikolaj Ehlers], I’ve played with some good players, had some good line combinations, but that’s up there,” Stastny said. “That was just fun. When you have fun playing the game, you just go out there and enjoy it. Every time we’re out there, we’re making things happen. It was too little, too late, but you can go into the summer feeling good about the game knowing that you still have a little something to give.”
Eric Comrie made 27 saves in the Jets win.
Winnipeg took a 1-0 lead in the game off a goal from Morgan Barron .
“We had a real good first two periods,” Kraken coach Dave Hakstol said. “We unraveled in the third period a little bit with a five-minute span, we gave up three pretty quick ones. We just didn’t follow up the first two periods.”
Alex Wennberg, Daniel Sprong, and Riley Sheahan replied fro the Kraken for a 3-1 lead.
“Our play really since the [March 21] trade deadline and a couple weeks before; really sound, really solid,” Hakstol said. “We’ve been real competitive each and every game, doesn’t really matter who the opponent is this time of year. So there’s a lot of pieces to our game that we’ve really liked over the stretch here coming down the last two months. Those are the pieces we will take. We will start to dig in, reevaluate things, and that process starts tomorrow.”
Blake Wheeler and Dominic Toninato scored in the third period to tie the game, 3-3.
“We’ve been in this situation before here, and I’ve always been proud of the fact that we’ve never been a team that’s just tanked and stopped playing,” Wheeler said. “A really tough road trip we went on, pretty sour taste coming off that four straight losses and h
ow we lost the games. I had no doubt we’d come in and finish the right way.”
Kyle Connor scored the go ahead goal in the third period, for the winner.
Chris Driedger made 23 saves in the Seattle loss.
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