McCann lifts Kraken past Lightning in OT

TAMPA -- Jared McCann scored a power-play goal at 2:53 of overtime to give the Seattle Kraken a 4-3 win against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Monday.

McCann converted a one-timer from the top of the slot off a pass from Vince Dunn.

"[The win] makes a six-hour plane ride a lot easier for sure," McCann said after Seattle went 2-1-1 on a four-game road trip. "I thought we played awesome on this road trip, but it's over now. We've got to focus on the next game."

The Lightning had a chance to win it earlier in overtime, but Nikita Kucherov’s backdoor tap-in attempt hit the right post at 1:41.

McCann and Kailer Yamamoto each had a goal and an assist, and Philipp Grubauer made 34 saves for his first win of the season for the Kraken (3-5-2). Jaden Schwartz had two assists.

"I think we battled through 60 minutes," Seattle forward Yanni Gourde said. "It's never going to come easy in this league. Winning is really hard. You've just got to bear down and play through the full 60 minutes to make sure you get those two points."

Alex Barré-Boulet and Brandon Hagel each had a goal and an assist, and Jonas Johansson made 39 saves for the Lightning (4-2-3), who went 3-0-2 on a five-game homestand.

Johansson and Tampa Bay were coming off back-to-back shutouts.

"Obviously in the first period you give up three goals, but we did a good enough job in the last two periods to come back and get a point," Hagel said. "I can’t really say we deserved to get the two points after the way we played in the first period, but we got the point, we’re going on the road, so we’ve got to take the point and move on."

Brian Dumoulin gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 12:08 of the first period when he one-timed a rebound in the left face-off circle.

Gourde made it 2-0 at 13:08 with a snap shot from the slot that beat Johansson stick side.

Tanner Jeannot cut it to 2-1 with a power-play goal at 13:37 when he chipped the puck past Grubauer with his backhand.

"We went down pretty quick and had a big hole to climb out of," Jeannot said. "But the guys did a good job the rest of the game. We fought back and got a point out of it. We’ll learn from the bad stuff and take the good stuff and try to have a good road trip."

Yamamoto extended the lead to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 15:52 when he stuffed in the puck off a rebound.

"I thought this was his best game," Kraken coach Dave Hakstol said of Yamamoto. "He had a ton of energy tonight -- 5-on-5, power play, he was involved in every part of the game. He had the puck on a string and he was making plays throughout the entire hockey game. It was nice to see him get rewarded with a power-play goal."

Barre-Boulet cut it to 3-2 with his own power-play goal at 3:40 of the second period. He put a rebound into an open net off an initial shot by Hagel.

Hagel then tied it 3-3 at 14:32 from a sharp angle. He threw the puck toward the net, where it went off Seattle forward Alex Wennberg's skate and through Grubauer's pads.

"I commended them for playing two pretty [darn] good periods, but this is the National Hockey League,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said, “and if you're going to spot a team three goals in the first period, you've got to get the next four to win the game. So people are going to look and say, 'Oh you hit a post here and missed this here at the end,' but that's not where the game was lost. It was lost in the first period."

NOTES: McCann has five points (three goals, two assists) in his past four games. ... Grubauer lost his first four starts and was the backup to Joey Daccord the previous three games. ... All four games on Seattle’s road trip were decided by one goal, and three went to overtime. ... Barre-Boulet has five points (three goals, two assists) in a four-game point streak. ... Johansson's shutout streak ended at 132:08. ... Kucherov’s four-game point streak ended. He was minus-1 with eight shots on goal in 23:26 of ice time.