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HomeSportsHockeyNHL News: Kraken start strong, handle Islanders

NHL News: Kraken start strong, handle Islanders

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Vince Dunn had a goal and two assists Thursday night for the visiting Seattle Kraken, who rolled to a 5-2 win over the New York Islanders in Elmont, N.Y.

Tye Kartye and Oliver Bjorkstrand scored in the first period and Dunn and Shane Wright added goals in the second before Jaden Schwartz contributed an empty-netter in the third for the Kraken, who have won the first two games of a four-game Eastern Conference road trip. Dunn had the primary assist on the first-period goals.

Goalie Joey Daccord carried a shutout into the third before finishing with 27 saves.

Noah Dobson and Maxim Tsyplakov scored in the back half of the third for the skidding Islanders, who have lost 10 of 13 (3-5-5). Ilya Sorokin recorded nine saves before being pulled after two periods for Marcus Hogberg, who stopped all 11 shots he faced in his first NHL action since April 28, 2021, when he was a member of the Ottawa Senators.

Kartye and Bjorkstrand redirected shots by Dunn within a span of a little more than 14 minutes in the first period,

Kartye opened the scoring 2:48 after faceoff, when Dunn’s shot from between the blue line and the left faceoff circle glanced off Kartye’s extended stick and went under Sorokin’s glove as the goalie was caught leaning in the other direction.

The Kraken doubled the lead in the waning seconds of a power play with 3:02 left. Dunn went to one knee above the left faceoff circle and fired a shot that went off Bjorkstrand’s stick and fluttered under Sorokin’s stick arm two seconds before the end of the power play.

Dunn finally collected a goal 3:55 into the second when his shot from the left slot went over Sorokin’s shoulder as Yanni Gourde set a screen.

Another screen by Gourde helped the Kraken score their second power-play goal with 6:55 remaining. Wright and Brandon Montour exchanged the puck before Wright swooped into the left faceoff circle and sent a shot under Islanders defenseman Scott Mayfield and past Sorokin’s stick side as Gourde remained in the shooting lane.

Dobson ended Daccord’s shutout bid with 8:03 left, when he scored a second-chance goal. Tsyplakov brought the Islanders within two after putting back the rebound of a shot by Ryan Pulock with 4:23 remaining. Schwartz’s empty-netter with 2:40 left ended New York’s comeback hopes.

–Field Level Media

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