SEATTLE (AP) — Mackie Samoskevich scored with 5:25 left, and the Seattle Kraken, regardless of blowing a multiple-goal third-period lead for the second recreation in a row, beat the Utah Mammoth 5-3 on Thursday night time.
The Kraken (7-3-1) carried a 3-1 lead into the third in opposition to Utah (7-4-0). On Tuesday. Seattle was up 3-0 heading into the ultimate 20 minutes in opposition to Detroit earlier than 3.
Jordan Eberle and Brandon Montour every had a purpose and an help. Matty Beniers and Frederick Gaudreau additionally scored, Gaudreau’s going into an empty web with 1:00 left within the recreation for his team-leading sixth of the season.
Logan Cooley had two objectives for the Mammoth, and Vincent Trocheck scored as soon as.
Philipp Grubauer made 33 saves for Seattle.
With the scored tied at 3-3 after every group had a purpose taken down within the third on profitable offside challenges, Bobby McMann stole the puck close to middle ice and skated down the left aspect His shot was deflected broad however the rebound bounced in entrance of the web. McMann lastly obtained a stick with it, tapping it over to Samoskevich, who pushed it in for his fifth of the yr.
Eberle’s fourth purpose of the yr put Seattle on prime simply 3:38 into the sport. His onerous shot from the blue line bounced off the boards, ricocheted off the again of Mammoth goalie Karel Vejmelka, dribbled down his again and into the web. Trocheck tied it for Utah with 2:03 left within the first interval.
That tie lasted simply 26 seconds earlier than Beniers put the Kraken again in entrance with 1:37 to go, his third of the season. Montour, who was goalless earlier than scoring on Tuesday in opposition to Detroit, made it 3-1 on an influence play at 2:23 of the second.
Cooley’s objectives, his second and third of the season, got here simply 27 seconds into the third interval and at 7:42 to tie it at 3-3.
Vejmelka made 18 saves.
Up subsequent
Kraken: Host Minnesota on Saturday.
Mammoth: Host Tampa Bay on Saturday.
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