In Seattle, Martin Jones made 22 saves and the Kraken downed the St Louis, 5-2, on Tuesday night.
“Not a lot of time and in our D-zone in the first two periods,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “There’s two or three occasions where they got inside because we were up to a little too loose on our return. … the way we play we need doubles, we need help down low killing plays, we need stops and starts inside. We did a pretty good job of that but against this team, if you don’t do it every time. It’s coming inside. We saw that a little bit in the second. We got good saves from ‘Jonesy’ on those.”
Seattle improved to 18-10-3.
St Louis surrendered a 4-0 lead through the first two periods before getting on the board in the third period to cut the disadvantage to 4-2, on strikes from Colton Parayko and Pavel Buchnevich
“We didn’t manage the puck very well,” Blues coach Craig Berube said. “They checked well, we didn’t have time or space and we didn’t do the right things with the puck. That’s probably what the bottom line was. … They got behind us too much and they were on us and we didn’t make very good plays and we didn’t compete very hard, we lost a lot of puck battles.”
The Kraken took a 1-0 lead in the first on a marker from Ryan Donato.
“That was a spectacular pass from him,” Donato said. “I mean, I saw it coming a little bit but with him going backward and momentum carrying him that way, to be able to get it all the way across his body and up that far, that was awesome and then going on a breakaway, I just kind of close my eyes and hope it goes in.”
St Louis dropped to 16-16-1.
“We’re playing great as a team,” Jones said. “I think when we check like that, makes [the goalies] jobs easier and then we just have to be solid and then maybe make one or two key saves that definitely simplifies things for us.”
Seattle broke the game open in the middle frame with a trio of goals from Carson Soucy, Daniel Sprong, and Jared McCann.
“They’re playing well,” Parayko said. “They’ve got players with a lot of speed, they’ve been playing with speed. They play a style when they get their forwards out there and get pucks to them… it’s hard to play against them.”
Brandon Tanev hit an empty-net goal for the 5-2 final.
Thomas Greiss made 28 saves in the loss.
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