Eeli Tolvanen scored twice and Brandon Montour had a goal and an assist when Seattle Kraken defeated the visiting Vancouver Canucks 6-3 on Saturday night to increase their flagging playoffs.
Andre Burakovsky, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Matty Beniers also scored and Shane Wright and Vince Dunn added two assists per piece for the Kraken, who snapped a two-game skid and pulled within nine points from Vancouver in the hunt for the second and last jokes of the Western conference. Goalkeeper Joey Daccord made 28 rescues.
Pius Suter, Filip Chytil and Dakota Joshua scored for Canucks, who lost their second straight. Kevin Lankinen stopped 18 out of 23 shots.
After 2-1, the Kraken dominated the second period and did three times-everything on tips.
Bjorkstrand tied it at 4:11 and redirected Montour’s shot from the blue line past Lankinen.
Canucks regained the lead on a short-handed goal by Joshua at 8:05 on a two-on-one rush with Drew O’Connor.
Beniers did at 12:08 and won a faceoff and then tipped Vince Dunn’s shot from the left point past Lankinen.
The twelve redirected Evans shot from the left point into the net at 13:08 to give Seattle a lead of 4-3 into the third period.
Montour scored on a bang from the top of the right faceoff circle at 5:38 by the third, shortly after a Power Play went out, to make it 5-3.
The twelve removed the game with an empty Neter at 18:29.
The Kraken first counted on a three-to-two rush at 5:47 of the first period. Wright carried the puck down the left wing and sent a backhanded pass over the track to Burakovsky for a one-hour just inside the post.
Canucks tied it at 11:35 when Dunn’s incorrect clearing attempt from the corner went straight to Suter for a wrist shot from the left faceoff dot.
Vancouver took a 2-1 lead when Tyler Myer’s shot from the right point was blocked but the puck fell to Chytil and he lifted a shot over a spreading daccord at 16:27.
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