The Kraken’s night in Seattle started with a little slice of history and ended with a scoreline that felt uglier than the play for long stretches. Vegas rolled past the Kraken 6-2, with Victor Oloffson scoring twice in a game that swung hard once the third period turned chaotic.
Seattle actually opened with an early power play just 15 seconds in, the earliest awarded power play in Kraken history. That edged out the previous mark by two seconds, set on January 4, 2024 at Ottawa, also at home. It was one of the few clean positives the Kraken could claim.
From there, the Golden Knights struck first on a deflection off Victor Oloffson. Seattle then took a penalty, and the issue wasn’t some cruel bounce so much as the same penalty-kill problem that keeps leaving someone alone in front.
A 2-0 hole still left room for a comeback, and the Kraken got another fast chance in the second period when they drew a power play 17 seconds in. But that sequence summed up the night’s bad luck.
Brandon Montour’s slapshot attempt on the man advantage broke his stick, and the puck turned into a two-on-one going the other way, with Montour trying to defend without a stick. It did not work.
Vegas added another goal after the puck deflected off Joey Daccord’s stick, and Seattle never really settled in during the first half of the period. The Kraken had not looked terrible early, but the bounces kept landing against them, especially after they had ridden the favorable side of puck luck in the two games against Calgary.
Seattle finally got on the board in the third when Shane Wright finished a sharp transition sequence, the kind of play that has become a regular part of that line’s season. The Wright line has been one of the Kraken’s bright spots, and this goal fit right into that pattern of speed and clean execution.
Then the game blew up.
Ben Meyers hit Victor Oloffson from behind and was handed a five-minute major and a game misconduct. After that, the third period turned into a mess of fights and shoving. Brandon Montour and Mark Stone dropped the gloves in a long scrap, and Montour picked up an extra penalty after the two stayed tangled up.
By then, the game had shifted into survival mode. Tomas Hertl and Jared McCann each added meaningless goals before it was over, and the rest of the night was about getting to the final horn.
Vegas was the better team, but the Kraken also got hit with plenty of bad breaks, especially once the third period spiraled and the Golden Knights spent five minutes on the power play because of the major. Seattle was mostly even on the expected goal chart until things unraveled late.
So this did not feel like the kind of loss that should send alarm bells blaring, even if the final score looked rough. The crowd at Climate Pledge Arena left unhappy, and the Kraken now head out on a five-game road trip before returning home on October 20th against the Detroit Red Wings.
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