In Seattle Jordan Eberle hit for a pair of goals on Saturday night in a 4-2 win over the visiting Detroit Red Wings.
“The biggest thing is you just want to try and do the same things, create as much as you can,” Eberle said. “Odds are things always equal out in the end. I’ve heard that many times and as long as you’re doing the right things and you’re creating and getting chances, I mean, things tend to equal out.”
Philipp Grubauer made 21 saves in the Seattle win.
“I was happy with the effort,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “We got off to a good start, we built a lead. We didn’t manage the puck very well in the last 10 minutes and that caused a lot of trouble for us, but [Grubauer] was good and we got through it. We had the benefit of the lead that we built in the first 50 [minutes].”
The Kraken improved to 32-18-6, and continue to distance themselves from their stretch of stickers, they are now 3-0-1 over their last four marches.
After Eberle scored to give the Kraken a 1-0 lead in the first, Detroit’s Pius Suter scored to tie the game, 1-1.
“Execution, we just didn’t execute,” Detroit coach Derek Lalonde said. “They were definitely the better second-effort team, a little heavier, a little bigger in some situations. But again, a lack of execution. We had some opportunities to make plays.”
Dylan Larkin also scored for the Red Wings, his third period goal cut the Seattle lead at the time to 4-2 with less than two and a half minutes left in the game.
Detroit dropped to 26-21-8.
Eberle scored in the middle frame to give the Kraken a 2-1 lead.
“The strength of this team is the depth we have,” Eberle said. “We get contributions from different lines each night, from the back end each night. For me, you go into playoffs and you have that, that’s a tough thing to beat.”
The dagger came with eight seconds left in the second when Jamie Oleksiak scored for Seattle and a 3-1 lead headed to the third.
“I kind of had some time and just got my head up, and [Oleksiak’s] sitting backdoor,” Seattle’s Matty Beniers said. “It was a great play by him to jump into the play and get there and sneak behind their defender, and it was just an easy pass.”
The Kraken scored again, at 4:49, of the third on a marker from Eeli Tolvanen for a 4-1 lead.
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Ville Husso made 22 saves in the Wings loss.
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