After cruising past the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional Round, the Seattle Seahawks are set for their biggest game in more than a decade against the Los Angeles Rams with a trip to the Super Bowl on the line.
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Kraken Extend Streak In Comeback OT Loss | Seattle Kraken
And while Dunn’s head coach insisted afterwards he doesn’t believe in “measuring stick games” the Kraken measured up fairly well in this one considering they played a pretty poor first period and needed half of the second frame to get any type of offense going against the league’s No. 2 defensive unit.
But they eventually got it going and the salvaged point, as Dunn mentioned, was huge in that it allowed the Kraken to remain in third place in the Pacific Division – just two points behind leaders Vegas and Edmonton – as they now embark on a five-city road trip. They extended their points streak to 10 games in the process, going 8-0-2 that stretch to transform a season hinging on the brink.
Mats Zuccarello got the overtime winner for Minnesota, converting a Kirill Kaprizov pass off a 2-on-1 break after the Kraken had been foiled just moments prior on their own odd-man rush. That foiled an outstanding night for Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer, who’d made several huge stops in both overtime and the third period to keep things tied, as well as prior to that frame to give his team the shot at a comeback.
The Kraken had spent the past week filling opposition nets with pucks but waited until the final 17 minutes to score their first goal of this game. By that point, they’d been trailing 2-0 since a pair of 42-foot wrist shot goals by Ryan Hartman and Brock Faber in the first period silenced the home crowd.
“The first period was awful, and our execution was probably the biggest part of that,” Dunn said. “It’s just tough when you’re chasing the game a little bit to start the game. So, we kind of set ourselves up for the second period to come out and play the right way and I thought as the game went on, we got a lot better.
“And I thought it was a pretty competitive game both ways. A lot of chances both ways.”
Grubauer kept things close from there, stopping 31 of 34 shots on the night to give his team a chance to get back in it.
Adam Larsson then got the Kraken on the board three minutes into the final period with a slap shot goal from the right circle after Dunn had rung one off the post on a prior blast seconds earlier. And the Kraken weren’t done yet.
The Wild ran into penalty trouble not long after and the Kraken capitalized on the power play with Matty Beniers banging home a net front rebound off a Jared McCann shot that lifted the home side into a 2-2 tie and sent the Climate Pledge Arena crowd into a frenzy.
The story of Joseph Garrett’s murder is more than 50 years in the making. His life ended on Jan. 4, making 71-year-old Garrett Seattle’s first homicide of 2026.
The shot that killed him was fired in 1973 outside of Garfield High School by a man who was never charged and who also is now dead, according to Seattle Police.
“We believe this is the longest delayed-death homicide that has happened in King County,” said Casey McNerthney, director of communications for the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. “Delayed-death homicides, unfortunately, are relatively common. There are at least a few of them each year, but typically it’s [after] a few years or maybe even a decade.”
The only published account of the shooting that led to Garrett’s death is a short article from a newspaper that also no longer exists (at least in print) — the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A four-paragraph story with the headline, “Fight Ends With Youth Being Shot,” published on Oct. 3, 1973, said Garrett, 19, remained in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center and was being treated for a bullet that lodged in his back.
The P-I account said Garrett got into a fight with an unidentified man who tried to hit him over the head with a handgun at the intersection of 25th Avenue and Jefferson Street, in front of the high school and less than a block from where Garrett lived.
According to the P-I, Garrett grabbed for the gun and, during the fight that ensued, the gun went off. The bullet hit him in the shoulder, traveled down his spine, and stopped in his mid-back, leaving him paralyzed.
It’s unclear whether Garrett was a student at Garfield at the time of the shooting. McNerthney said he could not find Garrett’s photo in Garfield High School yearbooks from the time. Archival and online searches reveal little information about who Garrett was or other details of his life before or after the shooting.
On Jan. 4, Garrett died after living his entire adult life paralyzed from the chest down. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy and ruled the death a homicide as the result of his gunshot wound from 1973.
Detective Rolf Norton at the Medical Examiner’s Office offered no additional information, other than to say via email, “Those involved are deceased.”
Detective Brian Pritchard at the Seattle Police Department said the suspect in the incident had no arrest record, was not charged in connection with Garrett’s murder, and had died in 2009. Because he was not charged with a crime, police did not release the suspect’s name.
McNerthney praised detectives like Norton, who he said detests the phrase “cold case.”
“A lot of the cases that I think the general public might think are forgotten or ignored in the back of a vault somewhere are often on Rolf’s desk,” McNerthney said.
He brought up two homicides (one from 1994 and a second from 2015) that were forwarded to the prosecuting attorney’s office in November 2025, both of which resulted in charges, and another 1997 homicide involving a newborn found dead in a bathroom garbage can at a north Seattle gas station, which Nelson helped solve. That last case led to the conviction in 2023 of Christine Marie Warren, the newborn’s mother, for first-degree manslaughter.
McNerthney said advances in genealogy, forensics, and DNA technology make it more likely that homicides that appear to be at a dead end will eventually be solved.
“There’s no statute of limitations on murder,” he said. “A lot of times, people may think after a few years or even a few decades that they’ve gotten away with it, but they haven’t.”
Editor’s Note: If you knew or had interactions with Joseph Garrett and are willing to share more about his life, please email Stephen Howie at howie@kuow.org.
Much has been, and will continue to be, made about the stars the Seahawks will need to step up to win this game. From the endless conversations about quarterback Sam Darnold’s turnovers and play in big games to how the team will deal with the loss of running back Zach Charbonnet, the national narratives surrounding the game are set in stone.
However, a unique aspect of the 2025 Seahawks is their ability to compete at a high level while lacking much of the star power that has accompanied previous Super Bowl favorites. It’s those players, the ones who are often overlooked, that will be critical for the Seahawks in these two teams’ third meeting. These three are just a few who will need to step up if the Seahawks are going to return to the mountain top.
In the second Rams game, Matthew Stafford and Puka Nacua torched the Seahawks’ secondary to the tune of 225 yards and two touchdowns. It’s safe to say stopping that from happening again will be paramount, and that starts with Jobe and his ability to play outside on either Nacua or Davante Adams.
That could be a scary thought for some, but few players on the Seahawks roster have had the turnaround that Jobe has in his second season with the Seahawks. Jobe rose from a depth piece to a reliable piece of their starting rotation, who has racked up 54 tackles, 12 passes defensed and an interception this season.
If Jobe can keep his man contained, it will free up Mike Macdonald to get in his bag of tricks and use Devon Witherspoon and Nick Emmanwori as human wrecking balls. Throwing a wrench in Sean McVay’s offensive gameplan is paramount, and it’ll be on the back of the former undrafted free agent.
The hero from the Seahawks’ overtime victory will once again play a major factor, but it won’t be in the receiving game. Ever since the former 49er returned from an injury in Week 15, the Seahawks have rushed for over 150 yards in all but one game. Not to say Saubert is the direct cause of the run game’s explosion, but it never hurts to have a quality blocking tight end to seal the edge.
With the Seahawks’ three starting tackles injury status up in the air, Saubert won’t only be a factor in the run game. Seattle may need to step in and provide help for a depth tackle outside by chipping incoming edge rushers or staying in a pseudo-sixth offensive lineman to give Darnold a little extra time in the pocket.
The Seahawks offense has found success dominating the trenches in their run up to this point, which is part of the reason they brought in and extended Saubert in the first place. A big game for him might not mean six catches or even hearing his name once on the broadcast, but there’s no doubt the team will feel his impact on Sunday.
I’m still not sure if it’s fair to call a former first-round pick underrated, but on a defensive line with Leonard Williams and DeMarcus Lawerence it’s easy to be overshadowed. Murphy has been everything the Seahawks thought he would be when they took him out of Texas two years ago, a mean and physically talented defensive tackle.
In their two showdowns with the Rams, the Seahawks’ impressive pass rush has failed to get Stafford on the ground once. That’s going to have to change if they want a chance in this one, and I firmly believe that starts with Murphy using his athleticism to create problems for the Rams’ offensive line and opening rush lanes for Willians and Lawerence to get after him.
The same way Murphy dominated the 49ers’ front and slowed their running game, he’ll need to do so in an effort to make the Rams one-dimensional.
If these three have impactful nights, I’m fairly confident that Seattle will feel like it’s 2015 again with their team on their way to play for a world title.
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