{"id":497856,"date":"2026-03-11T08:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/497856\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:24:27","slug":"ryan-ufko-scores-his-first-nhl-goal-as-the-predators-beat-the-kraken-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/497856\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Ufko scores his first NHL goal as the Predators beat the Kraken 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Ryan Ufko<\/a> scored his first NHL<\/a> goal with 5:35 to play in the second period to put the Nashville Predators<\/a> ahead to stay in a 4-2 win over the Seattle Kraken<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The rookie skated in from the right of the goal, dodged between two defenders and tucked the puck past Seattle goalie Joey Daccord<\/a> to give the Predators a 3-2 lead and two critical points in their chase for a wild-card playoff spot. Right now the team is on the outside of the playoff picture.<\/p>\n

Tyson Jost<\/a> and Reid Schaefer<\/a> also scored second-period goals to erase Seattle’s 2-0 first-period lead and Steve Stamkos added an empty-netter for his 31st goal of the season.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Marchessault<\/a> had a pair of assists for Nashville, which had lost four of its previous five, and Juuse Saros<\/a> made 43 saves. <\/p>\n

Kaapo Kakko<\/a> scored just 2:14 into the game and Matty Beniers<\/a> scored at 9:46 of the first period to give the Kraken a 2-0 lead. Beniers scored from a tough angle, firing from the bottom of the right circle and over the shoulder of Saros just inside the far post.<\/p>\n

Daccord finished with 23 saves.<\/p>\n

Seattle’s Shane Wright<\/a> scored a goal in the second but it was waved off because of goalie interference when Ryker Evans<\/a> slid into Saros and took out his feet.<\/p>\n

The Kraken were without left wing Jaden Schwartz<\/a>, who was hit in the face by a skate during Seattle\u2019s 7-4 loss to Ottawa on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Kraken, clinging to a wild-card slot, have now lost five of their last seven games.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Predators: Visit Vancouver on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Kraken: Host Colorado on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NHL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Ryan Ufko scored his first NHL goal with 5:35 to play in the second period…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55279,5,8054,1710,781,1500,1724,1713,231,285,4,18070,30023,3672,234,4186,8433],"class_list":["post-497856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nhl","tag-event_recap","tag-hockey","tag-jaden-schwartz","tag-joey-daccord","tag-jonathan-marchessault","tag-juuse-saros","tag-kaapo-kakko","tag-matty-beniers","tag-nashville-predators","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-reid-schaefer","tag-ryan-ufko","tag-ryker-evans","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-shane-wright","tag-tyson-jost"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116209586344113233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497856","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=497856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}