{"id":526603,"date":"2026-03-27T23:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T23:23:29","slug":"kraken-4-3-lightning-mar-26-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/526603\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken 4-3 Lightning (Mar 26, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. — \u2014 Brandon Montour<\/a> scored his second goal of the game 2:47 into overtime to give the Seattle Kraken<\/a> a 4-3 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

Bobby McMann<\/a> and Kaapo Kakko<\/a> each had a goal and an assist. Philipp Grubauer<\/a> stopped 30 shots for Seattle, which snapped a four-game losing streak.<\/p>\n

Jake Guentzel<\/a> had a goal and an assist, Anthony Cirelli<\/a> and Corey Perry<\/a> both scored, and Charle-Edouard D\u2019Astous had two assists. Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> finished with 15 saves. Tampa Bay improved to 4-0-2 in the last six games.<\/p>\n

Montour picked up the puck from Shane Wright<\/a> and beat Vasilevskiy to keep Seattle in the playoff race in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n

The Kraken opened the scoring with 4:42 left in the first period as Montour slipped around the defense to take a pass from Freddy Gaudreau and cut to the net for a backhand up and over Vasilevskiy. Cirelli pulled the Lightning even less than two minutes later. Seattle quickly regained the lead as Chandler Stephenson<\/a> slipped around a check from Emil Lilleberg<\/a> to find Kakko open in the slot with 1:48 remaining in the first.<\/p>\n

McMann scored his sixth goal in seven games with Seattle at the 3:35 mark of the second period for a two-goal advantage. Guentzel answered with a breakaway goal at 5:56 and Perry scored from the slot on the power play to pull Tampa Bay even midway through the second.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Kraken: At Buffalo Sabres<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Lightning: Host Ottawa Senators<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. — \u2014 Brandon Montour scored his second goal of the game 2:47 into overtime to give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-526603","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\/116303718179357246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526603","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=526603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}