PREVIEW: Red Wings bring four-game point streak into Tuesday’s road-trip opener against Kraken

SEATTLE – Visiting the Pacific Northwest for the first stop of their four-game road trip, the Detroit Red Wings will go head-to-head against the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday night.

“It’s fun to be on the road again,” Albert Johansson said. “I think it’s good for the group to get away. We have four big games coming up, and we get to start it off here in Seattle. It should be a good one.”

For the Red Wings (3-3-2; 8 points), Tuesday’s 6:40 p.m. PT/9:40 p.m. ET puck drop (broadcast coverage on Detroit SportsNet and the Red Wings Radio Network) represents a golden opportunity to bounce back from a 6-3 loss to the Kraken (5-3-1; 11 points) at Little Caesars Arena on Oct. 9. This’ll also be the final time these squads will meet this season.

“We want to establish our game on the road,” Detroit head coach Todd McLellan said. “We haven’t had a chance to do that all season, so this is the first extended time. Our one trip into Montreal (on Oct. 10) was back-to-back. It was a pretty good night for our group. We checked for our chances, and that’s going to have to continue. Those will be the habits we want to travel with, but we’re looking just to establish our game on the road.”

The Red Wings won their second game in a row and pushed their point streak to four straight with a 4-3 shootout victory over the San Jose Sharks on Saturday. The result was the club’s first multi-goal comeback win of the campaign, and Viktor Arvidsson feels the way Detroit has been playing has allowed it to continue pocketing points and building its game up.

“I think we showed we can fight back in games,” Arvidsson said. “You come back and win, I think that’s a strength that we’re showing that early in the season. It’s good for morale and for everybody, and I think we should take that with us. We played a road game in Montreal, which we also played really well.”

Lucas Raymond echoed that sentiment, pointing to the group’s recent play at Little Caesars Arena as a blueprint for how consistency can help them successfully navigate enemy territory.

“The way we’ve been playing at home during long stretches in those games, I think we got to carry that with us,” Raymond said. “We trust our game. We’re patient within it and it’s even more important on the road. It’s about getting wins and doing it our way.”

Seattle has dropped back-to-back games, most recently an 8-3 defeat to the Florida Panthers on Saturday. Going into Tuesday, the Kraken were tied for fourth in the NHL at 3.78 goals per game, with Jared McCann (three goals, five assists) and Kaapo Kakko (two goals, six assists) tied for the team lead in scoring at eight points apiece.

“Against the Kraken last time, for most of that game we played pretty well,” Johansson said. “We were attacking their net and shooting a lot, so I think we just need to clean up some of the details and puck management then we’ll be fine.”