The Kraken knew October was going to be games against strong competition one right after the other, and the month ended with a matchup in Tampa Bay against the Lightning – the one team Seattle had yet to beat in its young two-year existence that was coming off of two consecutive shutouts and had given up exactly one power play goal all season.
Seattle decided to turn all those narratives on their head. The Kraken burst out to a 3-1 lead in a first period that was one of the team’s strongest to date. And the third goal was a power play marker to boot.
Then in the second period, as Kraken sticks cooled, Philipp Grubauer backstopped his team very effectively until Seattle was able to regain momentum. The Lightning would fight back and force overtime with a tying goal late in the third, but, again on the power play, Seattle found a way and in overtime, Jared McCann added the second Kraken power play goal of the game to secure the win.
The team heads back home with five of eight possible points and knowing they have now beaten every other NHL team in the league.
Let’s look at the game “by the numbers.”
- The Kraken earned this win. They controlled offensive play generating 57.62-percent of all 5-on-5 shot volume and 65.68-percent of all shot quality.
- Seattle generated 20 shots on goal in the first period – that ties a franchise record for most pucks on net in a single frame (ANA, Oct. 12 2022).
- Kailer Yamamoto had a goal and an assist marking the first multi-point game of his Kraken career.
- Coming into this game, Tampa Bay had been perfect on the penalty kill for seven straight matchups and had allowed only one power play goal against in their first game of the season. Seattle became the first team to score multiple power play goals against the Lightning this season.
- Jared McCann’s game-winner was his third career decider that came in extra time and his first as a member of the Kraken.
- Jaden Schwartz had an excellent game. In addition to gaining two assists, according to Sportlogiq, the forward led his team in shot quality (.89 expected goals) and offensive zone possession time (:43) and led all skaters in the game in shots from the slot (6); scoring chances off the cycle (3); and controlled entries (7).
- Philipp Grubauer was strong in his return to the net. In all situations, he prevented .51 more goals than he should have based on the quality Tampa Bay generated.
- Justin Schultz had the primary assist on Brian Dumoulin’s goal marking his 300th NHL point.
- There were two response goals in this game. The Kraken’s first two scores were 1:01 apart and the first Tampa Bay tally came 29 seconds later.
Here's a look at our data-driven Instant Analysis from Sportlogiq (click HERE for how to read this graphic):
