A rough first 40 minutes put the Seattle Kraken in a hole they couldn’t fully climb out of, even after a third-period burst nearly turned Saturday’s game into a comeback for the ages.
Seattle scored three times in the final frame, but the rally stopped one goal short in a 4-3 loss to the New York Rangers at Climate Pledge Arena. The defeat was Seattle’s second in its last three games.
The Rangers did most of their damage early, and Joonas Korpisalo’s debut in net for New York went smoothly enough to hold up. He finished with 25 saves after missing the start of the season with a lower-body injury.
Gabe Perreault got the visitors moving quickly, scoring 1:35 into the game after Alexis Lafreniere’s first try was turned aside by Joey Daccord and Mika Zibanejad set him up. From there, the Rangers kept piling on.
Tye Kartye, back in Seattle as a former Kraken forward, tipped in an Adam Fox shot at 9:05 for his first NHL power-play goal. Jaroslav Chmelar added another before the period was over, and Daccord was pulled after facing just 10 shots.
New York stretched the lead to four in the second period when Pavel Dorofeyev finished a sequence with Zibanejad and Lafreniere.
Seattle finally found its rhythm in the third. Kaapo Kakko started the push at 1:50, taking a Brandon Montour rebound, circling behind the net and slipping the puck inside the far post. Jordan Eberle cut the deficit to two at 6:38 on the power play, finishing Matty Beniers’ cross-crease pass.
Then Vince Dunn made it a one-goal game at 15:02, blasting home Berkly Catton’s feed and giving the Kraken real life late.
Catton picked up two assists and stretched his point streak to eight games. Kartye’s goal against his former team added another wrinkle to the afternoon, but Seattle couldn’t find the equalizer before time ran out.
The Kraken now head to Finland for two meetings with the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2026 NHL Global Series on Nov. 12 and 14.
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