Kraken snap 3-game skid with 4-1 win over Islanders

SEATTLE (AP) – Eeli Tolvanen scored his first aim in a Seattle uniform since coming over from Nashville, and the Kraken halted a three-game winless streak on Sunday night time by beating the New York Islanders 4-1.

Seattle Kraken 4, New York Islanders: Stats

Adam Larsson, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Brandon Tanev additionally scored for the Kraken. Goalie Martin Jones made 18 saves for the Kraken.

Mathew Barzal scored for New Yok, the one centesimal aim of his NHL profession in his four-hundredth sport. Ilya Sorokin saved 31 photographs for the Islanders.

Tolvanen, who was claimed by Seattle off waivers from the Predators on Dec. 12, snapped a 1-1 tie on the 3:58 mark of the second interval. On the high of the appropriate circle, he took a move from Vince Dunn and drilled a slapshot to the again left nook previous Sorokin.

The aim, Tolvanen’s third of the season, got here on an influence play. That ended a seven-game 0-for-16 Kraken drought with the person benefit courting again to Dec. 11 in a 5-2 victory at Florida.

Larsson gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 9:53 of the primary interval along with his fourth of the season, shoveling it in from the highest of the crease after taking a move from Ryan Donato.

Barzal tied it 1-1 at 17:30 of the primary, reaching out in entrance of the left submit to direct a move from Casey Cizikas into the far facet of the online, his ninth of the yr.

Bjorkstrand tallied his fifth of the season for a 3-1 Seattle lead at 13:04 of the second, slapping within the rebound of a shot by Jamie Oleksiak. Tanev added an empty netter with 34.3 seconds left. It was his seventh aim.

NOTES: Donato’s help on Larsson’s first-period aim for Seattle gave him a degree in seven of his final eight video games. He additionally has a degree in 5 straight residence video games, the longest such streak of his profession. … Barzal reached his double milestone of 400 NHL video games and 100 objectives in the identical metropolis the place he performed 4 seasons of junior hockey (2013-17) with the Seattle Thunderbirds.

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