In Seattle, the Kraken rolled Tuesday night in a 5-1 win over the visiting Nashville Predators. 
Seattle scored four times in the opening period to take control of the game, 4-0.
Martin Jones made 24 saves in the Kraken win.
“It’s a real credit to everybody in the room,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “I mentioned it after the Pittsburgh game, I don’t believe anybody in this room could care less who gets the credit. Or who’s providing the offense. I think there’s a confidence that somebody’s going to step up and chip in and everybody’s focus is on the success of the team.”
Seattle improved to 8-4-2.
Jordan Eberle hit for a double in the first period, he scored his first with 38 seconds gone in the game.
He also scored the last goal in the first period outburst.
“We started the game well, we were opportunistic on some turnovers that we created,” Hakstol said. “We picked up where we left off at home. We’ve played real well here over the last stretch, and to have that start here was a good start to the hockey game. It was an important start to the hockey game.”
Filip Forsberg was the lone striker for the Predators, his goal came in the second period, but provided no lift.
“It got away from us in the first,” Nashville coach John Hynes said. “We had some tough decisions that we made that gave up some easy offense. Whether that was decisions up ice that created odd-man rushes, we had a couple of breakout turnovers that ended up right on their tape, right in the slot. That’s not how we want to play in the first period, for sure.”
Between the two Eberle goals, Will Borgen and Andre Burakovsky scored in the first.
“I think the last couple of games here during our five-game winning streak, we’ve been having good starts,” Burakovsky said. “I think that was a little bit of a problem earlier in the year, where we came out a little bit sleeping, and we’ve been talking about it a lot now. I think we were coming out hot. That sets the tone, for sure.”
Brandon Tanev hit for an empty-net goal in the third for the 5-1 final.
Juuse Saros got the start for Nashville, and was given the hook with just over three minutes were left in the first period. He surrendered all four first period goals.
Saros made two saves.
Kevin Lankinen made 13 saves in a mop up role.
“I thought it was an interesting game,” Forsberg said. “I thought the first period is pretty even, but obviously they scored basically on all their chances. We gave them a couple for free, and then after that it was an uphill battle for us and it’s kind of a weird game to analyze.”
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