DeBrincat scores late, Senators rally past Kraken

SEATTLE -- Alex DeBrincat broke a tie with 2:23 remaining in the third period, and the Ottawa Senators rallied for a 5-4 win against the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena on Thursday.

DeBrincat gave Ottawa the lead when his attempted centering pass from the left wing went off Seattle defenseman Will Borgen and past Philipp Grubauer.
"Sometimes that works out like that," DeBrincat said. "There were a couple like that against us. It's nice to go the other way and we can benefit from it. We're happy we can get that win and two points."

Jakob Chychrun and Claude Giroux each had a goal and an assist for the Senators (33-27-4), who have won six of their past seven games and trail the Pittsburgh Penguins by four points for the second wild card into the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Eastern Conference. Mads Sogaard made 29 saves.
"That's a big win for us, to stay with it the way we did, and find timely goals," Ottawa coach D.J. Smith said. "I mean, that's as fast a team as we played and that's a really good hockey team."
Jared McCann scored twice, and Vince Dunn had a goal and an assist for the Kraken (37-22-6), who had won five in a row. Grubauer made 26 saves.
Seattle trails the Vegas Golden Knights and Los Angeles Kings by four points in the Pacific Division after each won Thursday.
The Kraken scored four straight goals after allowing the first three but couldn't protect a one-goal lead.
"You don't get to start over, obviously the start put us in a big hole," Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. "We're able to dig out, so that's a real positive. But we didn't start on time tonight.
"Disappointing. We didn't get out of our end well enough in the third period, and it ended up costing us."
Dunn put the Kraken ahead 4-3 at 3:23 of the third with a wrist shot from the left circle, but Giroux tied it 4-4 just 38 seconds later at 4:01 on a one-timer from
Tim Stutzle
(two assists).

Shane Pinto gave Ottawa a 1-0 lead at 4:10 of the first period when he scored on a rebound in front.
Chychrun and Patrick Brown extended the lead with goals 17 seconds apart. Chychrun scored from the right face-off circle at 8:10 to make it 2-0, and Brown's one-timer trickled past Grubauer at 8:27 to give the Senators a 3-0 lead.
It was Chychrun's second goal in four games since being acquired in a trade from the Arizona Coyotes on March 1, and Brown's first after being traded from the Philadelphia Flyers two days later.
"That was awesome. But most importantly, we got the win," Brown said. "That's a tough game to play. Sometimes you get up early, and then all of a sudden you're down on the third. But we stuck together, and we kept playing the right way. We didn't try and cheat for offense. We just kept playing the right way and we got the win."

McCann cut it to 3-1 with a short-handed goal at 11:56, scoring on a 2-on-1 from the right circle.
Jaden Schwartz made it 3-2 at 2:11 of the second period on a redirection from Dunn, and McCann tied it 3-3 six minutes later at 8:11 when he knocked in a rebound of Daniel Sprong's one-timer.
"I thought the resilience there was pretty good," DeBrincat said. "We go up 3-0 quick, they came back, battled back. They're a good team. We knew it was going to come and just to stick with it.
"Even when we were down 4-3, we battled back right away. [Giroux] got that goal right after that. Good game by us. We never gave up."
NOTES: Chychrun and Brown's goals were the fastest two on the road for the Senators since Dec 4, 2019 (12 seconds; Artem Anisimov and Connor Brown at the Edmonton Oilers). … It was Giroux's 20th multipoint game this season. … Dunn was plus-4 in 24:01 of ice time and became the first Kraken defensemen to have 50 points in a season. … Seattle forward Yanni Gourde had two assists.