Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal and two assists as the Minnesota Wild defeated the host Seattle Kraken 4-1 Monday night.

Marcus Johansson, Kirill Kaprizov and ​Vladimir Tarasenko also tallied and goaltender Filip Gustavsson ‌made 23 saves for ⁠the Wild, who ​went 2-2-0 on their four-game trip.

Jordan Eberle scored for Seattle, which lost its ​sixth straight (0-5-1). Philipp Grubauer stopped 25 of 27 shots but suffered his first regulation loss of the season (4-1-1).

Johansson, who played with the Kraken in their expansion season of 2021-22, tallied the go-ahead goal at 8:12 of the third period on an acrobatic move in front of the net. Eriksson Ek got ​to a loose puck on the right-wing boards and backhanded it toward the top of the crease. ‌Johansson jumped and tipped the ‌puck ⁠between his own legs in one motion, ⁠with the redirection sailing over Grubauer’s shoulder and into the far upper corner of the net.

Kaprizov and Tarasenko scored empty-net goals at 18:45 and 19:00, respectively, to clinch the ‌victory. Kaprizov’s goal was his team-leading 18th of the season.

Minnesota opened the scoring at 1:18 of the second period as Jacob Middleton kept the puck in the offensive zone and Matt Boldy drove the puck down the left-wing boards and behind the net. Eriksson Ek skated to the low slot and Boldy found him for a snap shot that left Grubauer little chance.

The Kraken tied it on the power play at 6:48 of the period after Chandler Stephenson won a faceoff in the offensive zone. Jared McCann tapped the puck back to defenseman Vince Dunn at the left ‍point, who returned it to McCann. The forward sent a cross-ice pass to Stephenson, who had moved from the left to the right faceoff circle, and he spotted Eberle at the far post for a tap-in. It was Eberle’s team-leading ninth goal of the season.

Dunn put a jarring shoulder-to-shoulder hit on Wild forward Mats Zuccarello at the blue line with about five minutes left in the first. Zuccarello took a hard fall with his ‌helmet bouncing off the ice and went straight to the locker room and didn’t return. Minnesota’s Danila Yurov came to Zuccarello’s defense and received a double-minor ‌for roughing in a slight scuffle with Dunn, who got two minutes for roughing.

Seattle rookie forward Berkly Catton, a first-round pick in 2024, missed the game with an upper-body injury and is considered week-to-week. Catton blocked a shot ‍with his right hand late in the Kraken’s ​4-3 loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.

–Field Level Media

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3/3: Dec 8, 2025; Seattle, Washington, USA; Minnesota Wild defenseman Zeev Buium (8) looks on during warm ups before the game against Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Ng-Imagn Images
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