Vince Dunn scored twice, including the winner on a breakaway at 2:15 of overtime, as the Seattle Kraken rallied for a 5-4 victory against the host Vancouver Canucks on Saturday afternoon.
Jaden Schwartz also tallied twice for the Kraken, who trailed 4-1 with five minutes remaining in regulation. Matty Beniers also scored and goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 17 saves as Seattle snapped a five-game losing streak — one shy of the franchise record.
Brock Boeser scored twice, Jake DeBrusk had a goal and assist, Conor Garland also tallied and J.T. Miller and Carson Soucy had two assists apiece for the Canucks. Thatcher Demko made 24 saves.
Schwartz sparked the rally, banking a shot off Demko and into the net from below the goal line at 15:15.
With Grubauer pulled for an extra attacker, Dunn jumped on an errant Canucks pass in the slot and put a wrist shot into the upper right corner at 18:48.
Schwartz tied it at 19:10, taking a pass from Oliver Bjorkstrand, splitting four defenders to get to the top of the crease and knocking his own rebound past Demko as the forward fell to the ice. Schwartz reached 500 career NHL points on the play.
Boeser opened the scoring on a four-on-three power play at 16:03 of the first period. The Canucks won a faceoff in the offensive zone and Miller sent a cross-ice pass to DeBrusk for a one-timer from deep on the right wing. Grubauer got a glove on the shot but the puck went high into the air and fell behind the goalie, with Boeser reaching over Grubauer to slide it over the goal line.
Beniers tied it at 1:18 of the second on a wrist shot from the high slot that seemed to knuckle past Demko. It snapped a 19-game goalless drought for Beniers dating to Nov. 14.
The Canucks regained the lead at 8:36 as Garland tallied on a breakaway just after coming out of the penalty box.
Boeser made it 3-1 at 15:14 of the second as he took a cross-ice pass from Soucy, a former Kraken defenseman, and buried a one-timer from the left faceoff circle. It was Boeser’s fifth goal in the past three games.
DeBrusk extended Vancouver’s lead to 4-1 on a breakaway from the blue line at 3:09 of the third, set up by Miller.
–Field Level Media
