RECAP: Blackhawks Take Fourth Straight, 4-2 Over Kraken

The Blackhawks earned their first road win of the season in their inaugural meeting against the Seattle Kraken on Wednesday night, 4-2. Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 31 shots on the night for his fourth win of the year.
The victory is the fourth straight for Chicago under interim head coach Derek King and the team's first four-game win streak since Feb. 27 - March 3, 2020.
Seth Jones, Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane and Jake McCabe all found the net on the night to lead the offense for the visitors.

POSTGAME LINKS
GAMECENTER: CHI at SEA
ANALYSIS: Transition Game Leads Chicago to Win in Seattle
RELEASE: C. Jones Activated from LTIR, T. Johnson on LTIR
RELEASE:: Cookson Hired as Assistant Coach, Crawford Named Associate Coach
HIGHLIGHTS: S. Jones, DeBrincat Strike in Seattle 
WATCH: Blackhawks Travel to Seattle
GALLERY: Blackhawks Inaugural Game vs. Kraken
INSIDER: A Conversation with Derek King
STAT OF THE NIGHT: With his first-period goal, Seth Jones notched the 300th point of his NHL career in his 596th game. It was the second goal in three games for the blueliner, who leads Chicago in points with 14 (2G, 12A) on the year. He now has a career-best seven-game point streak (2G, 5A) running dating back to Nov. 1.
BLACKHAWK OF THE GAME: Fleury was stellar on the night with 31 stops, including 15 in the second period alone highlighted by an incredible glove snag to rob Yanni Gourde of the Kraken's opening goal. The only tallies allowed were on a Seattle power play and with the extra attacker on late in the game.

UP NEXT: The Blackhawks travel to Edmonton to face the Oilers and longtime defenseman Duncan Keith for the first time this season on Saturday night.

GAME RECAP

CHI: 1, SEA: 0

1st - 15:03 - Seth Jones (Alex DeBrincat, Patrick Kane)

Chicago opened the scoring late in the first period on the night to take a 1-0 lead. From behind his own goal, Kirby Dach chipped a puck up to Patrick Kane along the boards for a breakout. The winger sprung the rush the opposite way, hitting Alex DeBrincat on the far side of the ice who then found Seth Jones driving the back post with a one-touch pass for a tap-in tally, the defenseman's second in the last three games.

CHI: 2, SEA: 0

2nd - 2:01 - Alex DeBrincat (Kirby Dach)

Kirby Dach sparked another Blackhawks goal from behind his own net in the second period, this time springing Alex DeBrincat on a partial breakaway with a feathered pass into the neutral zone. DeBrincat skated in from the center stripe with Jamie Oleksiak on his back before putting a shot under the arm of Philipp Grubauer for a 2-0 lead.

CHI: 3, SEA: 0

3rd - 5:36 - Patrick Kane (Philipp Kurashev, Connor Murphy)

For the third time on the night, the Blackhawks went from deep in their own end to back of the net within seconds as Connor Murphy corralled a rebound in the slot and found Philipp Kurashev breaking out of the zone with Patrick Kane. The former fed the latter with a saucer pass inside the Kraken blue line, leaving Kane 1-on-1 with the netminder to put a shot off the bar and in for a 3-0 score.

CHI: 3, SEA: 1

3rd - 14:15 - Jared McCann (Jaden Schwartz, Morgan Geekie) -- PP

The Kraken spoiled Marc-Andre Fleury's bid for a 68th career shutout late in the game on the power play as Jared McCann found the net past the sprawling netminder off a pass from Jaden Schwartz in front.

CHI: 3, SEA: 2

3rd - 18:11 - Yanni Gourde (Vince Dunn, Jordan Eberle)

With the extra attacker on, Seattle pulled within one late as Yanni Gourde found the back of the net with a one-timer from the top of the circle to make it 3-2 with just under two minutes left.

CHI: 4, SEA: 2

3rd - 19:34 - Jake McCabe

Jake McCabe sealed the win with an empty netter to make it 4-2, his first as a Blackhawk.