SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Ben Meyers scored his career-high sixth goal and the Seattle Kraken ended Carolina’s point streak at 12 games by beating the Hurricanes 2-1 on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Kaapo Kakko also scored for the Kraken, and Joey Daccord was superb in net with 35 saves. Seattle defenseman Adam Larsson had two assists. <\/p>\n
Carolina had won five straight games and seven of eight. It was the first defeat for the Metropolitan Division leaders since a 4-3 overtime loss at Washington on Jan. 31, and their first in regulation since getting blanked 3-0 in St. Louis on Jan. 13.<\/p>\n
Seattle avenged a 3-2 loss to Carolina in January and moved into third place in the Pacific Division, one game ahead of Edmonton with a game in hand on the Oilers. <\/p>\n
Meyers, who signed a two-year contract extension with the Kraken last week, snuck a backhand shot around goalie Frederik Andersen to give Seattle a 2-0 lead midway through the second period. <\/p>\n
Nikolaj Ehlers scored for Carolina to make it 2-1, ripping a wrist shot past Daccord with 1:30 remaining in the second.<\/p>\n
That was all the offense the Hurricanes could muster, even with a furious push following a holding penalty against Seattle\u2019s Eeli Tolvanen with 1:29 left. Carolina coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour pulled goalie Frederik Andersen to set up a 6-on-4 advantage, but Daccord and the Kraken held firm. <\/p>\n
Kakko scored early in the second when he put a wrist shot underneath Andersen\u2019s right shoulder. <\/p>\n
Andersen finished with 13 saves. <\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUp next<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: Visit the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Kraken: Host the St. Louis Blues on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
AP NHL: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NHL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Ben Meyers scored his career-high sixth goal and the Seattle Kraken ended Carolina’s point streak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[37837,1251,194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-484482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-ap-sports","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-carolina","11":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","12":"tag-carolinahurricanes","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-hurricanes","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116169891164860381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484482","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=484482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}