Kraken recover, defeat Golden Knights in OT to end 4-game skid

SEATTLE -- Jared McCann scored 29 seconds into overtime, and the Seattle Kraken ended a four-game skid with a 4-3 win against the Vegas Golden Knights at Climate Pledge Arena on Friday.

McCann received a pass from Brandon Montour in the neutral zone and skated in on a breakaway. He deked to his backhand and lifted it over Adin Hill’s left pad to give Seattle the win.

“I think it was a really good team effort, but it was nice to see Jared get a nice goal there,” forward Brandon Tanev said. “It’s a big goal for the group.”

“I don’t want to say it was a complete game from minute one to minute 63,” Seattle coach Dan Bylsma said. “But it was our best game, really [in terms of] competing the way we want to and need to compete.”

Tanev scored twice, and Oliver Bjorkstrand had a goal for the Kraken (6-8-1) in his return to the lineup after he was a healthy scratch in a 6-3 loss at the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday. Seattle had lost seven of its past eight and had never defeated the Golden Knights at Climate Pledge Arena. Joey Daccord made 21 saves.

“It was good. I would have been ready in Colorado, but I thought I was ready tonight,” Bjorkstrand said. “I kept it somewhat simple. I feel like I played well with the puck and was able to create some chances. So I think the key now is just to build on that.”

Jack Eichel had three assists, Nicolas Roy had a goal and an assist and Pavel Dorofeyev and Alex Pietrangelo each had a goal for the Golden Knights (9-4-1), who won their previous three. Hill made 28 saves.

“Pretty good effort overall, but I think we put ourselves in bad situations many times tonight,” Roy said. “’Hillsy’ played a really good game, and if it wasn’t for [Hill], I think it would have been a different score for sure.”

Dorofeyev made it 1-0 on a 5-on-3 power play at 10:13 of the first period, receiving a cross-crease pass from Roy at the bottom of the right circle and one-timing it past Daccord.

"As hockey games do, the game turns a little bit," Bylsma said. "They got the 3-on-5 for the full two minutes, and they scored on that."

Roy pushed it to 2-0 at 13:31, taking a feed from Ivan Barbashev at the left post and sending it into the open net.

Tanev cut it to 2-1 at 17:21, intercepting Brayden McNabb’s pass at the Seattle blue line to spring a breakaway. Tanev fired a wrist shot that beat Hill high blocker.

“I think we got off kilter for a few minutes there in the second period,” Bylsma said. “And I thought it was a huge, huge goal by ‘Turbo’ for not only himself, but the team to get that goal from him there to make it 2-1 and really get us back in the game.”

Tanev tied it with his second of the game at 7:12 of the second period after Tye Kartye stole the puck at the bottom of the left circle and found Tanev in the slot, who chipped it over Hill’s glove.

“We had some unforced errors from the back end tonight, very uncharacteristic of them,” Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy said. “Some of them were through reads on the ice, puck play, one face-off we won, and all of a sudden it’s in our net, things like that typically don’t happen."

“[Kartye] made a great play on my second goal,” Tanev said. “I think without his effort to get that puck and make a possession, poised play, I don’t think I have an opportunity in front of the net. So he did some great things tonight, and I think as a line we played really well.”

Bjorkstrand gave Seattle a 3-2 lead at 2:58 of the third period when Hill poke-checked a loose puck off Bjorkstrand as he crashed the net.

With Hill pulled for an extra attacker, Pietrangelo tied it 3-3 with 1:22 left in the third period when his pass deflected off Seattle defenseman Adam Larsson’s skate and in.

“I think we have a really resilient team,” Roy said. “We had a really nice push at the end there. That’s why we got out of that game with a point.”

NOTES: Golden Knights forwardMark Stone did not play due to a lower-body injury. “I don’t have much, other than he missed tonight’s game,” Cassidy said. “We’ll travel back home, he’ll see our doctors there and we’ll get a much better read on that. We play again Monday. I have no idea. … We’re off tomorrow [for a] scheduled day off.” … Eichel recorded his 14th three-point game with the Golden Knights, tying William Karlsson for the third-most in franchise history.