As mentioned, that lack of add-on is\u00a0as much\u00a0responsible for blowing\u00a0the multi-goal leads like we saw Thursday as anything else. When\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0struggling to score, frustration can set in\u00a0given the already present confidence issues. Kraken alternate captain\u00a0Matty\u00a0Beniers\u00a0addressed\u00a0this\u00a0after a 3-0 loss in Edmonton on Tuesday,\u00a0stating\u00a0his team, which played the Oilers\u00a0and Buffalo\u00a0before that\u00a0very evenly chances-wise, cannot\u00a0let it get to them when good offensive process\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0begat\u00a0results.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve just got to bear down sometimes,\u201d\u00a0Beniers\u00a0said\u00a0of the team\u2019s mental approach. \u201cEveryone wants to score, but\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0got to hit the net.\u00a0You\u2019ve\u00a0got to do those\u00a0little things\u00a0and get around the net, be there for the rebound. Second chance pucks. Tonight, it\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0go in and\u00a0that\u2019s\u00a0frustrating. But\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0just got to keep going.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Easier said than done, clearly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Berkly Catton discussed this back in January\u00a0when the 19-year-old finally scored his first NHL goal to end a 27-game drought that was the longest in his hockey memory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re in a drought like that, you start to think the\u00a0puck\u2019s\u00a0not going to go in when you shoot it,\u201d\u00a0Catton\u00a0said. \u201cYou think it\u2019s going to hit something while it\u2019s on its way in and stay out.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
It can work that way for\u00a0entire\u00a0teams as well. When you\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0scoring, it starts to feel hopeless when the world\u2019s best goalies\u00a0make\u00a0professional stops.\u00a0Small wonder the Kraken\u00a0keep\u00a0chiding\u00a0themselves all season for passing up quality\u00a0shot attempts in favor of lower percentage passes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We saw it again Thursday night\u00a0when Kaapo Kakko had a partial breakaway chance but dropped the puck 20 feet behind\u00a0him in a pass to seemingly no one rather than shooting it.\u00a0Perhaps when your entire team is struggling to score, you\u00a0start believing the puck\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0go in when you shoot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Kraken looked to have solved that\u00a0confidence\u00a0portion\u00a0initially\u00a0against Utah netminder Karel\u00a0Vejmelka,\u00a0now\u00a0a 34-game-winner, when Jordan Eberle\u00a0beat him\u00a0just 41 seconds in\u00a0on\u00a0the type of\u00a0rebound\u00a0chance\u00a0Beniers\u00a0had discussed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For Eberle, it was only his second goal\u00a0in a 16-game span dating back a month. Both\u00a0Eberle personally\u00a0and the team\u00a0itself\u00a0seemed off-to-the-races. Catton was robbed by a\u00a0Vejmelka\u00a0glove save at the goalmouth, but Bobby McMann\u00a0added a second Kraken goal minutes later by sticking with the play after\u00a0an initial\u00a0whiffed shot and putting a spin-move backhander\u00a0into the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As mentioned, that lack of add-on is\u00a0as much\u00a0responsible for blowing\u00a0the multi-goal leads like we saw Thursday as anything…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538994,"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-538993","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\/116342394997208957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538993","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=538993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}