In Newark, Dougie Hamilton second power pay goal of the game came in the third period to give the New Jersey Devils a 2-0 lead over the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night.
John Marino added a late empty-net goal for a 3-1 win.
“I think it’s just opportunity to play with good players and get in those spots,” Hamilton said. “That’s pretty much it for me. I don’t think about it too much, just try to keep playing and get better. I think I can play better still. I think it’s working, but I need to play better still.”
Mackenzie Blackwood made 33 saves in the win.
“It’s been about the team all year, really,” New Jersey coach Lindy Ruff said. “[Jack] had a great first 50 games, you can’t disguise that at all. But at the same time, we’ve made this about the team, and we need other guys. So, if you look at tonight [and] you look at the blocked shots, you look at Blackwood’s play, you look at the penalty killers, you look at what the power play did.
“Jack has been a big part of the power play, so the power play stepped up in Jack’s absence. There’s a lot of good things inside the game.”
Adam Larsson was the lone striker for Seattle.
“We were good enough to win,” Larsson said. “Sometimes you fall short.”
The Kraken dropped to 29-17-5.
“We had good looks tonight,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “Both goaltenders were good, especially in the first half of this hockey game. We had good opportunities on the 5-on-3 power play. We had some good opportunities. So, I don’t want to get too frustrated over that. We’ve got to continue generating those opportunities and look to finish them.”
Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves in the Seattle loss.
“It comes down to special teams,” Kraken forward Alex Wennberg said. “We have an opportunity to score, we don’t and they scored two of them.”
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