Minnesota\u2019s first goal had also been off a defensive breakdown that led to an odd man rush and Matt Boldy scoring on a rebound that bounced off his chest and then his stick right before crossing the goal line.<\/p>\n
But even with those setbacks, the Kraken still nearly regained the lead when Jaden Schwartz scored midway through the period on a shot from deep in the left circle only to have it called back on a challenge that Freddy Gaudreau interfered with netminder Jesper Wallstedt in his crease.<\/p>\n
Lambert\u2019s team seemed to sag from there, yielding a go-ahead goal by Vladimir Tarasenko after Daccord lost sight of a rebound and then the 200th\u00a0goal of onetime Kraken forward Marcus Johansson\u2019s career in the third when he was left all alone at the side of the net. Joel Eriksson Ek sealed it with an empty net goal in the final minutes as the Kraken fell to 5-14-2 since the Winter Olympic break.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe disallowed goals that we\u2019re getting take momentum away from us, especially when we\u2019re fragile,\u201d Lambert said. \u201cI mean, we want our guys going to the net. Freddy (Gaudreau) does a good job of going to the net, we make a good play. But regardless of that, we can\u2019t turn the puck over at the start of the second period. We have a protocol on that rush. There\u2019s no way that guy (Foligno) should be alone in front of the net.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fourth goal, Marcus Johansson is standing off to the back side by himself. It\u2019s things that have to change. And you know, there will be a lot of soul searching.\u201d<\/p>\n
That seems inevitable given a 1-8-2 mark the last 11 games and 3-12-2 record going back the last 17 contests.<\/p>\n
Kraken defenseman Montour, whose slap shot from the point opened the scoring just one second after the expiration of a power play chance, said the team can\u2019t stop pressing in the wake of setbacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s coming at us in a wave, a big wave here,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota\u2019s first goal had also been off a defensive breakdown that led to an odd man rush and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-547685","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\/116370065652020787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547685","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=547685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}