{"id":426766,"date":"2026-01-25T04:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426766\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:24:19","slug":"opportunistic-montreal-canadiens-edge-seattle-kraken-in-4-2-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/426766\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunistic Montreal Canadiens Edge Seattle Kraken In 4-2 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Canadiens capitalized on the few opportunities they had against the Seattle Kraken to walk out of Seattle with the 4-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t a masterpiece for the Canadiens, but, after the rollercoaster of a game they had the night prior against the Vancouver Canucks, they just wanted the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken looked to be in control of the game at every moment, and every single mistake they made was seemingly converted into a Canadiens goal.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Allen stood on his head for the Canadiens in this game, as he pushed back 30 of the 32 shots he faced, with many being high-danger chances.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip side, Martin Jones allowed four goals on the first eight shots he faced, which killed any momentum the Kraken could create during this game.<\/p>\n<p>For the exhausted Canadiens, they finish this four-game road trip with five out of a possible eight points; a solid haul for a club that many, including this guy, expected to start tailing off in the month of December.<\/p>\n<p>Your post-game analysis below:<\/p>\n<p>Power Surge<\/p>\n<p>After coming out of the first period with a 1-1 tie, the Canadiens came out roaring early in the second period to take control of the game.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.nationalhockeynow.com\/2022\/11\/25\/montreal-canadiens-gotta-see-it-nick-suzuki-dazzles-in-the-shootout-yet-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Suzuki<\/a> jumped on a failed clearing attempt in the Kraken\u2019s zone and attacked the offensive zone before sliding the puck to <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.nationalhockeynow.com\/2022\/11\/30\/montreal-canadiens-cole-caufield-could-soon-be-teams-richest-player\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Caufield<\/a> for his 15th goal of the year in just 26 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens\u2019 dynamic duo once again came up clutch for the Canadiens, as Montreal looked to be reeling at the end of the first period.<\/p>\n<p>Caufield\u2019s goal seemed to give the team some much-needed confidence.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/scottmatla\/status\/1600340927368683520<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t take long for the Canadiens to take advantage of this momentum shift, as, on the very next shift, they struck again.<\/p>\n<p>Just seven seconds after Caufield gave the Canadiens the 2-1 lead, <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.nationalhockeynow.com\/2022\/06\/11\/montreal-canadiens-josh-anderson-in-high-demand-across-the-nhl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Anderson<\/a> doubled the Canadiens lead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.nationalhockeynow.com\/2022\/11\/28\/montreal-canadiens-nearing-difficult-decision-with-slafkovsky\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Juraj Slafkovsky<\/a> extracted the puck along the boards and sent Christian Dvorak into the offensive zone at full speed.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadien\u2019s veteran centre slid the puck over to a streaking Anderson, who wired home his second goal in 24 hours for his 7th of the season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a new record for the Montreal Canadiens for the two fastest goals scored consecutively while on the road in the franchise\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Night Of Firsts<\/p>\n<p>It was a night of firsts tonight, as two players scored their first goals in their NHL careers.<\/p>\n<p>First to the party was <a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.nationalhockeynow.com\/2022\/10\/08\/montreal-canadiens-make-value-waiver-claim-in-jonathan-kovacevic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Johnathan Kovacevic<\/a>, who fired home a wobbling wrist-shot past Martin Jones to notch his first career goal.<\/p>\n<p>It caught everyone off-guard, but Kovacevic wasn\u2019t going to ask any questions, as he picked up his first marker after 27 games in his young NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>After Kovacevic, it was <a href=\"https:\/\/canadiensaggr.com\/go\/41734\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Wright<\/a>\u2018s turn to make some history.<\/p>\n<p>Wright, whom many thought the Montreal Canadiens would select at 1st overall at the 2022 NHL Draft, was motivated to play tonight and didn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old was robbed a few times by Jake Allen, but was ultimately able to break through and finally get his 1st NHL goal in his eighth game.<\/p>\n<p>The goal came at 15:30 of the first period, off a nice setup by Wright\u2019s teammates, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Yanni Gourde.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769315059_630_07ba55ead0c73509df880c421e3023e5ac7c7d9f55b4c9b9a5aeeb184bcdf689.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMarc  has  been  covering  the  Habs  for  over  a  decade.  He  previously  worked  for  Journal  Metro,  The  Athletic,  The  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/marc-dumont\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Dumont<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Montreal Canadiens capitalized on the few opportunities they had against the Seattle Kraken to walk out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[971,2656,5,3724,12931,783,976,4188,20479,21,4,2686,234,5318,4186],"class_list":["post-426766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-kraken","tag-cole-caufield","tag-habs","tag-hockey","tag-jake-allen","tag-jonathan-kovacevic","tag-josh-anderson","tag-juraj-slafkovsky","tag-kraken","tag-martin-jones","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken","tag-shane-wright"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115953839168242066","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}