MTL@SEA: Game recap

SEATTLE - The Canadiens finished up their four-game road trip with a 4-2 win over the Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday.

The team announced prior to the game that Sean Monahan was out with a lower-body injury and would be reevaluated back in Montreal. Martin St-Louis confirmed that the Habs would dress seven defensemen and 11 forwards, meaning Chris Wideman drew back into the lineup.
Jake Allen got the start in goal.
Johnathan Kovacevic got the first goal of the game, and it was a special one. It was the defenseman's first goal of his NHL career, and he scored it with a blast from the point after Mike Matheson sent the puck his way from the other end of the Seattle zone.
The goal was scored at 12:56 of the first.

The Kraken didn't let the 1-0 lead last for long, however, as Shane Wright netted his first in the NHL 2:34 later to tie things up.
The two teams headed to the room all squared up at 1-1. Seattle outshot Montreal 11-4 in the opening frame.
The Habs got things going again early in the second with a pair of quick goals. First, Nick Suzuki picked off a Kraken clearing attempt just after the two-minute mark of the period, sending it to Cole Caufield who wired it past Seattle starter Martin Jones for his 15th of the season.
Suzuki picked up his 15th assist of the campaign on the play.

Then, just seven seconds later, Christian Dvorak entered the Kraken zone and sent the puck cross-ice to Josh Anderson, who wristed it in for his second goal in as many nights to pad the Canadiens' lead at 3-1.
Dvorak and Juraj Slafkovsky earned assists on the marker.

The Canadiens made it a 4-1 game with 80 seconds to go in the period and the two teams playing at 4-on-4. Rem Pitlick drove the puck into the Kraken zone, sending it to Jake Evans, who passed it to the other side to Joel Edmundson, who then found Pitlick for the tap-in.
Jared McCann cut the Habs' lead down to 4-2 with 0.1 seconds left in the period.
Neither team lit the lamp in the final frame.
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