Chicago Blackhawks (27-35-14, in the Central Division) vs. Seattle Kraken (32-31-11, in the Pacific Division)<\/p>\n
Seattle; Saturday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Kraken play the Chicago Blackhawks after losing three in a row.<\/p>\n
Seattle is 17-15-5 in home games and 32-31-11 overall. The Kraken have a -20 scoring differential, with 207 total goals scored and 227 allowed.<\/p>\n
Chicago has gone 14-19-6 on the road and 27-35-14 overall. The Blackhawks have a 10-7-9 record in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the third time these teams play this season. The Kraken won 3-2 in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Matthew Beniers has scored 19 goals with 26 assists for the Kraken. Bobby McMann has eight goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Connor Bedard has 30 goals and 38 assists for the Blackhawks. Frank Nazar has scored four goals with two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Kraken: 3-5-2, averaging 2.8 goals, 5.1 assists, 3.2 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: 2-5-3, averaging 2.1 goals, 3.4 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Kraken: Ryan Winterton: out (personal), Shane Wright: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Blackhawks: Shea Weber: out for season (ankle), Artyom Levshunov: out for season (hand), Andrew Mangiapane: out (upper body), Oliver Moore: out (lower body), Matt Grzelcyk: out for season (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Chicago Blackhawks (27-35-14, in the Central Division) vs. Seattle Kraken (32-31-11, in the Pacific…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-539431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116343610206999803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539431","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=539431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}