Dave Hakstol wasn’t being flippant when he said he knew his team’s shooting percentage wouldn’t be only 2-percent all season long. Tonight, the Kraken’s sticks awakened as seven different goal scorers found the back of the net (sound familiar?) to secure a 7-4 win and hand Carolina just their second loss of this young season.
Seattle’s offense didn’t just come alive, it scored in multiple ways: even strength, on the power play (twice!), and short-handed. All the while backed by a penalty kill that remains perfect through five games and strong goaltending, this game by Joey Daccord.
Let’s look at the game “by the numbers.”
- Carolina is a team that shoots the puck a lot and they did that tonight with Seattle earning 42.61-percent of all 5-on-5 shot attempts and 44.91-percent of all 5-on-5 shot quality. But period over period the Kraken developed more and more offense with their third period being the strongest (57.14% of shot volume / 70.58% of shot quality).
- To that point, the Kraken did something Hakstol had been talking about – developing more high-danger chances. They had 14 close-in looks as compared to Carolina’s 12 and had six chances off the rush while allowing only one against.
- Carolina scored their first goal of the game 19 seconds after the Kraken did the same marking the first Seattle-Opponent response goal of the season.
- The Kraken would have a response goal of their own with their fifth and sixth goals happening 21 seconds apart.
- 12 Kraken skaters earned at least a point and four players (Will Borgen, Oliver Bjorkstrand, Vince Dunn, Andre Burakovsky) had multi-point nights.
- Dunn had the third three-point game of his Kraken career going 1-2-3 on the evening.
- With two assists, Burakovksy got to 200 NHL career helpers.
- Jaden Schwartz’s goal was his 450th NHL point.
- Pierre-Edouard Bellemare scored his first goal as a member of the Kraken and it was also the first short-handed goal of the season for Seattle.
- Tye Kartye scored the first regular season goal of his NHL career – he also led the Kraken in 5-on-5 individual shot quality with .63 expected goals.
Here's a look at our data-driven Instant Analysis from Sportlogiq (click HERE for how to read this graphic):
