In Seattle, the Kraken lost, 3-1, to the visiting San Jose Sharks on Thursday night. 
It certainly was not for lack of trying.
The Kraken took a50 shots on goal.
“That was pretty awesome. It was a lot of fun out there,” Cooley said. “I think that may have been some of the most saves I’ve had ever, so it was really cool. I had a blast.”
The Sharks moved to 19-51-9.
“It feels good to come out with a win,” San Jose coach David Quinn said. “You wish you played better, but at the end of the day, it feels good to win. It’s been a tough go for us [in Seattle], and for the most part, our guys have done a really good job down the stretch here under difficult circumstances. … I thought we got better as the game went on.”
The Sharks took a 1-0 lead on a marker from Luke Kunin at 8:07 of the opening stanza, scoring off a tip in.
“Overall, [Kunin’s] game’s gotten better and better,” Quinn said. “I think you’ve seen his best hockey here over the last month and a half.”
Brian Dumoulin replied for the Kraken at 9:22, tying the game, 1-1.
The Kraken dropped to 33-32-13.
“You can always do more. [Cooley] saw some of the pucks a little too easily in the first period,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “They were uncontested in terms of that, but he also had some that were through traffic, and some were rebounds. He did a really good job of sealing the bottom of the net tonight.”
San Jose took a 2-1 lead when Kyle Burroughs scored off a rush at 14:46 of the middle frame.
The Sharks put the game away just 51 seconds after that goals with a strike by Fabian Zetterlund, scoring off a deflection.
“I just spread out and did a split, and luckily it hit my pad and he didn’t elevate it or anything,” Cooley said of his save on Schwartz. “But that’s one of the benefits of just being really long and lengthy is hopefully it will just hit my leg or a limb or something.”
Joey Daccord made 20 saves in the loss.
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