Kraken recover in shootout against Red Wings after blowing third-period lead

SEATTLE -- The Seattle Kraken recovered after blowing a three-goal lead in the third period to defeat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 in a shootout at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday.

“We had two or three chances to make it 4-0,” Seattle coach Lane Lambert said. “I thought we were on our toes (early in the third period), and then we ran into a little bit of penalty trouble, and it turned a little on a dime.”

Bobby McMann won it for Seattle in the fourth round after Alex DeBrincat scored with 17 seconds left in regulation to tie it 3-3. With Daniil Tarasov pulled for the extra attacker while on a power play, DeBrincat finishing the tic-tac-toe passing play with a wrist shot at the left post.

“A lot of guys would have just shot that,” Detroit coach Todd McLellan said. “But (Lucas Raymond) saw ‘Cat’ off to the side, and ‘Cat’ doesn’t miss many of those.”

Mackie Samoskevich, Ryker Evans and Brandon Montour scored for the Kraken (6-3-1), who were beginning a four-game homestand after going 3-1-1 on a 10-day East Coast road trip that ended with a 8-3 loss at the Florida Panthers on Saturday. Philipp Grubauer made 22 saves.

“I like that we put a lot of focus on shootouts this year with (Colin Zulianello), goalie coach,” Montour said. “Guys have really keyed in and (been) working on it.”

DeBrincat and Raymond each had a goal and an assist, and Dylan Larkin had two assists for the Red Wings (3-3-3), who extended their point streak to five games (2-0-3). Tarasov made 24 saves.

“I thought we put ourselves in a situation where we got frustrated (in the first two periods),” McLellan said. “That was taking a lot of energy out of our game. We weren’t connected, we were upset, for lack of a better term, with our play. We talked about it between the second and third and got a goal, and that broke the ice for us, so then we started coming back. We have a pretty resilient group.”

Viktor Arvidsson scored off a rush at 6:25 of the third period to cut Seattle's lead to 3-1. He took Emmitt Finnie's pass at the top of the right circle and shot over Grubauer's right pad while sliding toward the slot.

“We made a mistake through the neutral zone on their first goal, which gave them some momentum and game them some life,” Lambert said.

Raymond cut it to 3-2 with a power-play goal at 7:24 of the third. He collected his own rebound from a sharp-angle shot below the left circle before tucking it inside the near post.

“Obviously, it feels good (to get my first goal of the season),” Raymond said. “It was nice to get one of those and obviously get it to a one-goal game, and then being able to take it to overtime was good for our team.”

Samoskevich gave the Kraken a 1-0 lead at 6:45 of the first period, taking a drop pass from Chandler Stephenson inside the blue line, cutting to the top of the slot and snapping it over Tarasov’s blocker. 

“Yeah, (Stephenson) just made a nice play,” Samoskevich said. “We already know he’s a great passer, great playmaker. He just kind of set it up for me there, picked the guy, and I just walked right into it.”

Evans pushed it to 2-0 with a power-play goal at 3:22 of the second period after Detroit forward Michael Rasmussen’s backhand pass from the left corner missed Keegan Kolesar. The puck instead went to Evans, who delayed and scored with a wrist shot that squeezed under Tarasov’s right arm.

Montour, who did not play in the loss to the Panthers on Saturday, made it 3-0 at 16:01 of the second, one-timing a wobbling puck over Tarasov’s blocker from the top of the left circle.

“For me, it’s just (telling the coaching and medical staff) that I feel good enough to go and being confident to play my game,” Montour said. “So that’s the (biggest) thing.”

NOTES: DeBrincat (705 games) became the fourth-fastest active American player to reach the 300-goal mark, behind Auston Matthews (482 games), Kyle Connor (648 games) and Jake Guentzel (670 games). … The Kraken have scored the game’s first goal six times and have earned a point in each of those contests (5-0-1).