Jordan Ebele and Jared McCann each had a goal and two assists, and Matty Beniers scored a goal with an assist as well as the Seattle Kraken cruised to a 4-2 victory over the Arizona Coyotes to punch their ticket into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. FOX13
are officially headed to the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time in franchise history.
The Kraken needed a victory clinch a spot Thursday night. The Nashville Predators beat the Carolina Hurricanes 3-0 earlier in the night to take any chance of clinching a playoff spot with only a single point off the table. While Seattle was a bit scattered over the opening 15 minutes of play, they ultimately put the hammer down and emphatically sealed their postseason spot.
Beniers won the puck off Nick Schmaltz behind the Arizona net and shuffled it to Eberle in front of the net. The puck went from Eberle to McCann on the back door for the finish and a 1-0 Kraken lead with just 23.5 seconds left in the opening period. Arizona got one back with eight minutes remaining in the second period. A 3-on-1 break out of the neutral zone for the Coyotes led to Barrett Hayton shooting around an inadvertent screen from Jamie Oleksiak and beat Grubauer to cut the Seattle lead to 3-1.
Brandon Tanev and Miloš Kelemen dropped the gloves behind the Arizona net after Kelemen hit Morgan Geekie from behind and Tanev took offense. It came shortly after a big hit of Laurent Dauphin into the boards by Will Borgen moments earlier. Dauhpin scored with 39.5 seconds left to cut the final deficit but the Kraken are headed to the playoffs.– Kraken first-round pick Shane Wright saw his junior hockey season come to an end on Thursday night as his top-seeded Windsor Spitfires were swept in four games by the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League playoffs.
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