Final Buzzer: Kraken Roar Back

• Kraken keep pressure throughout first period, finishing with 15 shots on goal and racking up 13 scoring chances. Both teams generated three Grade-A scoring chances apiece with Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer and counterpart Karel Vejmelka coming up with clutch stops to keep it zeroes.
• Cross-checking penalty on Haydn Fleury affords Arizona power-play goal. Kraken respond with Carson Soucy's eighth goal of season 18 seconds later. Less than a minute later, Arizona regains lead. But new guy Daniel Sprong - first player Kraken has traded for - rings up Seattle's second goal. Four goals, three-and-a-half minutes.
• Soucy scores second goal of night and raises his career high total to nine. Kraken lead 3-2 after two periods. The final period is is tense with chances for both sides until a pretty Kole Lind-to-Jared McCann-to-Morgan Geekie goal ices it for Seattle. Kraken have won three of last four games.

GLENDALE, AZ - When you trade away six regulars, the next-man up concept needs to go multiple. Defenseman Carson Soucy did his part, logging extra minutes and scoring two decisive goals during a frantic second period. Soucy tied the game at 1-1, then made it 3-2 after 40 minutes. He logged eight shots on goal for the night, a team high.

Soucy's pair of goals represent a new career-high for the 27-year-old D-man. He has nine on the year to lead all Seattle defensemen. Both of his shots were crisp and located in hard-to-save corners.
"I was just trying to make the most of the opportunity with 'Gio' gone and everything," said Soucy, who quarterbacked the second power-play unit with Vince Dunn on the first unit.
Along with a mindset to get pucks on net, Soucy said he looks to shoot when there is traffic in front of the opposing goaltender.
"I want to get it there when I see numbers in front," said Soucy during the post-game media scrum. "On the first goal, not sure if we had two guys and one of their guys. Obviously, the goalie didn't see it. Our forwards did a good job getting there."
Newly acquired forward Daniel Sprong was a multiplier himself, scoring a tying goal on a wicked shot that has to be exciting to see for Kraken fans and his new teammates alike. Sprong is the one player who joined the Kraken via a trade deadline in which GM Ron Francis hauled in 10 draft picks. Sprong led all forwards with five shots on goal.

Soucy and Sprong alliterated their way to a 3-2 lead for Seattle after two periods, fighting off two go-ahead goals by Arizona. It's the sort of no-quit culture Francis talked about Monday post-deadline, that this team goes hard every night, referencing the comeback win over Detroit Saturday night at Climate Pledge Arena.
In the final period, the Kraken played responsibly with the 3-2 lead but still kept generating shots on goal and more scoring chances.
"We did a really good job regaining composure [after falling behind twice]," Kraken coach Dave Hakstol said. "We did a really good job in the third period, playing hard and smart with the lead."
The Kraken broke through the tension of a one-goal margin with an insurance goal with seven minutes left in the game. The score was the work of a newly arranged line of Morgan Geekie between Jared McCann and Kole Lind.
Lind, called up from AHL Charlotte over the weekend, worked a puck from behind the Arizona net to McCann at the faceoff circle to the left of the Arizona goal. McCann's quick-shot capabilities attracted the attention of Arizona goalie Karel Vejmelka and his defensemen, leaving Geekie wide open far-net to rip in the young forward's fifth goal of the year.

Good for Lind, who Francis and Hakstol both identified as the next man up among forward call-ups with Colin Blackwell, Calle Jarnkrok, Marcus Johansson and Mason Appleton all joining new teams over the last 48 hours.
On the defensive end, SEA goalie Philipp Grubauer did his part to secure the win. He made 24 saves on the night, including nine Grade-A scoring chances.

Tradeoff: Juggling the Lines
With six Kraken regulars traded away before 9 a.m. Monday, Hakstol and his coaching staff have some juggling to do, especially on the forward lines. For one thing, Yanni Gourde lost both of his linemates, Blackwell and Appleton, scrambling a recently highly productive line.
Gourde was centered Tuesday between Ryan Donato (they have played together at times) and Karson Kuhlman, who has looked active and "strong on the puck" (Hakstol's description) since returning from an injury that sidelined him for 18 games. Kuhlman was flashing his passing and playmaking skills in a first period in which the Kraken generated 13 scoring chances.
The Jaden Schwartz-Alex Wennberg-Jordan Eberle line stayed intact while Geekie centered a line with McCann and Lind.
Sprong logged two shots on goal in the opening minutes on the power play (his first Kraken shot, a one-timer, required a quality save from Vejmelka). Sprong joined center Riley Sheahan and Joonas Donskoi (back from Injured Reserve). Sprong's fourth shot on goal of the game, showing Kraken fans his underrated shot, tied matters at 2-2 with a whip-fast wrist shot.
"It's a new team, fresh start," Sprong said. "I wanted to make a good impression."
Mission accomplished. Sprong mentioned his shot during a Monday video call with media and delivered on his remarks.
"Quick-release, hard shot," Sprong said post-game, citing two one-timers on a first period power play (Hakstol mentioned them too). "I like to shoot the puck. I think I do a pretty good job with that. Tonight, my linemates did a good job finding me."