Ryan Ufko scored his first career NHL goal and Juuse Saros made a season-high 43 saves as the Nashville Predators rallied for a 4-2 victory against the host Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Tyson Jost, Reid Schaefer and Steven Stamkos also scored and Jonathan Marchessault had two assists for the Predators, who evened their record on their five-game trip at 1-1-0 and pulled within a point of Seattle for the Western Conference\u2019s second and final wild-card berth.<\/p>\n
Kaapo Kakko and Matty Beniers scored for the Kraken, who lost their third in a row and play host to league-leading Colorado on Thursday in the finale of a six-game homestand. Joey Daccord stopped 23 of 26 shots.<\/p>\n
The Predators scored three unanswered goals in the second period to take a 3-2 lead before Stamkos iced the victory with an empty-netter at 19:55 of the third.<\/p>\n
Jost got Nashville on the board at 4:14 of the second. Fedor Svechkov carried the puck down the right wing, cut toward the slot and fired a pass to Jost on the left wing for a wrist shot over a sprawling Daccord.<\/p>\n
The Predators tied it at 10:19 as Matthew Wood skated down the slot and between two defenders before setting up Schaefer for a tap-in from the top of the crease.<\/p>\n
Ufko, a defenseman playing in his fourth career game, gave the Predators the lead at 14:25, weaving his way through three defenders before faking out Daccord and tucking a forehand shot just inside the right post.<\/p>\n
The Kraken outshot Nashville 19-7 in the first period while taking a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Kakko opened the scoring just 2:14 into the contest. Saros stopped Shane Wright\u2019s shot from the right-wing corner, but Kakko put the rebound into the net from just outside the top of the crease.<\/p>\n
Beniers doubled the advantage on a wrister at 9:46 from a sharp angle on the right wing that beat Saros high inside the near post.<\/p>\n
The Kraken\u2019s Jaden Schwartz missed the game and is out indefinitely after taking a skate to the face Saturday against Ottawa. Fellow forward Bobby McMann, acquired in a trade Friday with Toronto, is still waiting processing on his work visa and remains unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Ufko scored his first career NHL goal and Juuse Saros made a season-high 43 saves as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-500602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-kraken","13":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116219582741550786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500602","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=500602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}