3 Game Essentials | Kraken at Nashville | Oct. 14

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With all kudos to Morgan Geekie's laser wrist shot beating VGK goalie Robin Lehner near-side top-shelf to tie the game 3-3 Tuesday-and keep shooting Morgan-the breakthrough goals in the second period involved creating lots of body traffic in front of Lehner. More of that please, especially against Nashville's Juuse Saros, who emerged as an elite goalie last season. When center Yanni Gourde talks about being hard to play against, this is one example: Annoy Saros, obstruct sight lines. Watch for who is winning position and puck battles between Kraken forwards and Predators defensemen.

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When answering a direct media question about line play Wednesday, Hakstol said the Schwartz-McCann-Eberle line had a good night. He admitted to "looking for chemistry" on the other three lines to string together multiple good shifts from his forwards. With Marcus Johansson going to the injured list, there will be necessary juggling on who plays with center Alexander Wennberg. What to look for: Brandon Tanev joined the clicking pair of Donato and Geekie for the third period Tuesday. Hakstol talked like that might stick for Nashville.