Preview: Coyotes Wrap Up Road Schedule in Seattle on Thursday

The Arizona Coyotes are set to play their remaining highway recreation of the 2022-23 season on Thursday.

The Coyotes, who will face the Seattle Kraken for the second consecutive recreation, nonetheless have three residence video games remaining on their schedule, starting with a Saturday matinee in opposition to the Anaheim Geese. 

Thursday’s recreation in Seattle marks the second of three matchups between the Coyotes and Kraken – the 2 will meet as soon as extra on Monday.

Ahead Clayton Keller‘s 82 factors this season are mark a profession greatest, and he has just a few Coyotes staff data in his sights. The 24-year-old is seven assists shy of Ray Whitney’s 53 that he set in 2011-12, and he is simply 4 factors shy of Keith Tkachuk’s 86, which dates again to the 1996-97 season.

Seattle’s Matty Beniers and Arizona’s Matias Maccelli prepared the ground within the Calder Trophy dialogue, as the 2 lead all NHL rookies with 54 and 45 factors, respectively. Maccelli, who has performed 15 fewer video games than Beniers this season, leads all NHL newcomers with 35 assists and .75 points-per-game.

Goalie Karel Vejmelka is anticipated to get the beginning tonight, and the 26-year-old is 18-23-5 with three shutouts, a 3.38 goals-against common and a .901 save proportion. He’s 1-1-0 with a 4.04 GAA and .896 SV% in three profession appearances in opposition to the Kraken. 

Participant to Watch: Ahead Lawson Crouse has three targets in 4 video games in opposition to the Kraken in his profession, and scored in opposition to them on Monday.

ABOUT THE KRAKEN
Seattle’s 94 factors at present has it within the first Wild Card spot, and the Kraken have received three of their final 4 video games to comfortably solidify their playoff hopes in simply their second season of play.

Jared McCann leads the staff in whole factors (63) and targets (37), whereas Vince Dunn’s 50 assists prepared the ground. McCann scored twice in opposition to the Coyotes on Monday, and has 4 factors over his final 4 video games.

Philipp Grubauer stopped 20-of-21 pictures in opposition to Arizona, and is 15-13-4 with a 2.99 GAA and .890 SV% this season. Martin Jones, who was in web for Seattle’s 5-2 win over Vancouver on Tuesday, is 26-13-1 with a 2.97 GAA and .888 SV%.

The Kraken rank fourth within the league with 3.53 goals-for per recreation, and are sixteenth in permitting 3.10 targets in opposition to. They’ve scored a minimum of 4 targets in all of their earlier 5 wins, potting 29 targets over that span.

Participant to Watch: Keep watch over Beniers, who scored an empty-netter in opposition to Vancouver on Tuesday to extend his lead within the rookie scoring race. The 20-year-old has two targets and two assists over his final 4 video games.