In Seattle, the Kraken ended the road run of the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night with a 4-3 win in extra time.
Andre Burakovsky scored with 70 seconds gone in the extra session for the Kraken win.
“Those points are so important,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “To be able to have the poise, presence, to go out and make a play is important. There’s a bunch of guys looking back at me sitting on the bench that wanted to go out there tonight (in overtime). I can tell you that and you know, truth be known, there’s a bunch of guys that probably could have went out and made a play for us. So that’s important, but [Burakovsky] went out and made the play, and that seals up the point for us.”
New Jersey’s Nico Hischier had forced the extra session with a goal with less than two minutes left on the regulation clock for the 3-3 tie.
“We’ve found ways to win. It turns out to be a good trip. You’re happy when you can get that amount of points,” New Jersey coach Lindy Ruff said. “We’re not happy with the way we’re playing, didn’t like the way we played tonight, lost too many battles, gave up too many situations that are preventable, and I think we’ve been kind of trending, playing a bad period and being able to come back, and I think it finally caught up with us tonight.”
Martin Jones made 27 saves in the Kraken win.
Seattle improved to 27-14-4.
Ryan Donato hit for a double for the Kraken, he scored in the first and second periods for a 2-0 advantage to Seattle.
“I thought we played quick again tonight,” Hakstol said. “We had our energy back, physically and mentally we were on it, and you could feel that right from the start of the hockey game, and that carried through. I mean, there’s going to be momentum swings back and forth, but you could feel that throughout the hockey game.”
New Jersey’s Damon Severson and Erik Haula scored to tie the game, 2-2.
“There was a loose puck and I just won the battle,” Haula said. “I just took off, got a chance. It took a good bounce after a good play by [Dawson Mercer]. … Nine points out of 10 on this long road trip is good. Now we head home and have a few games before break, so we’re going to try and focus on that.”
Brandon Tanev scored in the third to restore the Kraken lead at 3-2.
Mackenzie Blackwood made 36 saves in the loss.
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