Ben Chiarot scored at 1:07 of overtime as the Detroit Red Wings defeated the host Seattle Kraken 4-3 in a Monday matinee.
Lucas Raymond had a goal and an assist and Moritz Seider and Daniel Sprong also scored for Detroit, which won the final two games on its four-game trip after dropping the first two. Goaltender Alex Lyon made 38 saves.
Jared McCann tallied twice and Jaden Schwartz also scored for Seattle, which was opening a six-game homestand. Joey Daccord stopped 28 of 32 shots.
Because Seattle opened overtime on the power play, the teams were still skating four-on-four when the Red Wings scored the game-winner. Following a Kraken turnover in the offensive zone, Raymond sent a pass to Dylan Larkin, who charged down the right wing. When Larkin got to the faceoff circle, he sent a backhanded pass to a wide-open Chiarot in the slot, and the defenseman beat Daccord with a wrist shot.
Three times the Red Wings took the lead in regulation, and all three times the Kraken rallied to tie the score.
Detroit opened the scoring at 13:30 of the first period. A three-on-two rush was broken up, but the Red Wings cycled the puck back to the blue line, and Seider’s slap shot found the net as Daccord was screened by his own defenseman, Justin Schultz.
McCann tied it on the power play at 18:32 of the first on a slap shot from just beyond the left faceoff circle that rattled off the far post and into the net.
The Red Wings made it 2-1 at 7:18 of the second following a faceoff win in the offensive zone. J.T. Compher’s shot from the right point was knocked down in front of the net, but Raymond pounced on the loose puck and slipped it past Daccord.
The Kraken tied it at 10:51, as Jamie Oleksiak’s slap shot from the top of the left faceoff circle hit McCann in the skate as he set up at the top of the crease. McCann’s initial shot was stopped by Lyon, but McCann was able to slide the rebound between the goalie’s pads for his team-leading 24th goal of the season.
The Red Wings regained the lead at 15:58. Sprong, who spent the previous two seasons in Seattle, put a wrist shot from just inside the right faceoff dot off the near post and into the net after a nifty cross-ice pass from Christian Fischer.
The Kraken tied it at 3-3 at 7:25 of the third on a delayed penalty. Yanni Gourde made a cross-ice pass to Schwartz, who lifted a wrist shot over a scrambling Lyon from down low in the right faceoff circle.
–Field Level Media
