Shane Wright scored twice as the Seattle Kraken defeated the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 Thursday night.
Brandon Montour and Jared McCann had a goal and an assist apiece and Matty Beniers also tallied for the Kraken, who won their third game in a row and wrapped up a 4-2-0 homestand. Goaltender Joey Daccord made 29 saves.
It was the Kraken’s first home victory against Toronto. Seattle lost the first four meetings by a combined score of 17-5.
Nicholas Robertson and Morgan Rielly scored for Toronto, which is 0-5-1 in its past six games. Anthony Stolarz stopped 17 of 21 shots.
Trailing 3-1 after two periods, the Maple Leafs cut their deficit in half on a power play at 6:04. Rielly’s shot from the left point made it over the shoulder of a screened Daccord.
But Wright, a native of Burlington, Ontario, scored his second of the night at 8:32 to restore the two-goal advantage. Montour scraped the puck off the right-wing boards and Wright carried it into the slot, where he beat Stolarz with a wrist shot high to the glove side.
McCann put the puck into an empty net at 17:23 to cap the scoring.
The Kraken opened the scoring just 1:21 into the game. McCann spotted a wide-open Beniers in the slot, and Beniers beat Stolarz with a wrist shot.
The Maple Leafs tied it at 15:02 of the first. Robertson connected on a slap shot from the top of the left faceoff circle immediately after players from both teams were chopping at the puck along the boards.
Seattle regained the lead on Wright’s backhander off the rebound of a Jaden Schwartz shot from beyond the top of the right faceoff circle at 6:23 of the second.
The Kraken made it 3-1 just 31 seconds later. Frederick Gaudreau carried the puck down the middle of the ice and fed Montour for a wrister from the right faceoff circle.
Maple Leafs forward William Nylander rejoined teammates for the morning skate but sat out his seventh straight game due to a groin injury. He could return Saturday at Vancouver.
–Field Level Media
