"We've got to play better in front of him, no doubt," Kane said. "It's one of those things, we played pretty well the first five games, then all of a sudden he comes back. Maybe you expect him to bail you out, which he has the past few games.
"We can play better in front of him, a little bit harder, a little more intense. When we got the intensity going at the end of the second there and into the third we started to take over the game."
Kruger made it 2-1 at 7:43 of the third period when a shot by Alexandre Fortin went off his skate.