Schwartz was again a factor later in the period when he poked the puck away from the Capitals at the defensive blue line ahead to Jarnkrok, who beat his defender and sent a shot past Vanecek from the left faceoff circle with about six minutes left. Larsson made it 3-1 just 43 seconds later when he buried a breakaway slapshot on a pass ahead from Gorde and Jarnkrok. It was the Kraken’s first lead in more than 266 minutes. Schwartz put the Kraken ahead 2-1 with a cleanup of Carson Soucy’s redirection at 6:17 in the second period. Seattle has scored at least one power-play goal in four straight games. Schwartz, a constant threat in the first 40 minutes with five shots and high energy, bounced a close shot off Vitek Vanecek’s stick and McCann backhanded it past the goalie from 10 feet in front of the net to tie the game at 15:58. The Kraken tied it late in the first period with Evgeny Kuznetsov serving 2 minutes for holding. And we had chances to win that game if we hadn’t let it get away from us early.”Īlex Ovechkin scored his 15th goal of the season for Washington, which hasn’t lost since Nov. I think we had like 20 shots in the third period, something like that. “And then I thought we actually played really well the rest of the game, controlled the game. “The game got away from us in about 4 minutes,” Capitals center Nic Dowd said. But the Caps were playing for the second night in a row, and looked tired as the Kraken pushed them around during the heart of a three-goal second period. Washington entered the game on a 6-0-1 streak and took a 1-0 lead just 3 1/2 minutes in on Tom Wilson’s slapshot.
Jared McCann and Adam Larsson also scored for Seattle, which got 37 saves from Philipp Grubauer.
But it’s got to be like this every game.” “We got together as a group and talked about how we need to play,” he added. “Maybe because we’re sick and tired of losing games,” Jarnkrok said when asked what the difference was Sunday. SEATTLE - Jaden Schwartz had a goal and three assists and the Seattle Kraken beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Sunday night to snap a six-game losing streak.Ĭalle Jarnkrok and Yanni Gorde each added a goal and an assist, and Schwartz reached 401 career points in Seattle's first win since Nov. Schwartz, Kraken top Capitals 5-2 to end six-game skid
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