{"id":716076,"date":"2026-01-30T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716076\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:32:14","slug":"wright-scores-twice-as-seattle-kraken-beat-maple-leafs-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/716076\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright scores twice as Seattle Kraken beat Maple Leafs 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Shane Wright scored two goals and the Seattle Kraken extended their winning streak to three games with a 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken 5, Toronto Maple Leafs 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlesports.sports.gracenote.com\/hockey\/nhl\/boxscore\/168718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Box score<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brandon Montour and Matty Beniers also scored for the Kraken, who have won four of their last five games. Joey Daccord stopped 29 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Robertson and Morgan Rielly scored for Toronto, which slipped to 0-5-1 over its past six games.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Stolarz, making his second straight start in goal after missing two months with an upper body injury, allowed a goal on the opening shot for the second consecutive game and finished with 17 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, the fourth overall pick in the 2022 NHL draft, had the second multi-goal game of his career. He hadn\u2019t scored in his last 13 games before netting his eighth and ninth of the season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Beniers scored 1:21 into the first period for Seattle. He has a point in five straight games and set a franchise record for 10 goals in a calendar month.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson tied it at 1 with 4:58 remaining in the first on a slap shot from the top of the left circle.<\/p>\n<p>Wright scored on a backhand off a rebound 6:23 into the second period, and Montour added a goal 31 seconds later to give Seattle a 3-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>After Wright\u2019s holding penalty, the Maple Leafs capitalized with a power-play goal from Rielly 6:04 into the third period to cut their deficit to 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>After forcing a defensive zone turnover, Wright\u2019s wrist shot put Seattle up 4-2 at 8:32 in the third.<\/p>\n<p>Jared McCann the 199th goal of his career into an empty net with 2:37 left.<\/p>\n<p>Berkly Catton, the Kraken\u2019s first-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft, took a hard hit to the head from Toronto\u2019s Oliver Ekman-Larsson in the first period and did not return.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs: Host Vancouver on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken: At Las Vegas on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/nhl\/seattle-kraken\/seattle-kraken-report-open-shane-wright-trade\/1836700\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Kraken reportedly \u2018open\u2019 to trading former 1st-rounder Shane Wright<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Shane Wright scored two goals and the Seattle Kraken extended their winning streak to three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2081],"tags":[7,6,238,237,261,2635],"class_list":{"0":"post-716076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-seahawks","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-seahawks","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-seahawks","13":"tag-seattleseahawks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115983125609490276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}