Matty Beniers scores again, Seattle Kraken beat Ottawa Senators 4-2

SEATTLE (AP) — Matty Beniers scored in his second straight recreation to develop into the third NHL rookie this season to file a degree in his first three contests and the Seattle Kraken beat the Ottawa Senators 4-2 on Monday evening.

Seattle Kraken 4, Ottawa Senators 2: Field rating

Beniers, the No. 2 total choose in final yr’s draft out of Michigan, had an help in his NHL debut final Tuesday in a 5-3 loss at Calgary. He scored his first purpose on Saturday within the Kraken’s 4-3 shootout win over New Jersey.

Daniel Sprong, Victor Rask, and Jordan McCann additionally scored for Seattle. McCann’s empty-netter with 1:11 left sealed Seattle’s second straight victory.

Brady Tkachuk and Nick Holden scored for Ottawa. The objectives got here two minutes aside early within the second interval.

Beniers’ purpose at 9:52 of the second tied the rating at 2-all. Adam Larsson took a shot from the correct level, and Beniers, enjoying within the excessive slot, stretched out his stick and acquired simply sufficient of the puck to redirect it into the left facet of the web.

Beniers joined rookies Sean Durci of Los Angeles and William Eklund of San Jose as gamers to log a degree of their first three video games.

“We made a pair errors with the puck early within the second interval, and that results in alternatives in a rush while you give them these forms of possibilities,” Kraken coach Dave Hakstol stated. “That’s what occurred to offer them momentum. We did an excellent job pushing again on it, and Beniers’ purpose was an essential purpose. It made us really feel good once more and acquired us getting into the correct route.”

Sprong gave the Kraken a 1-0 lead close to the midpoint of a four-minute energy play within the first interval when Ottawa’s Parker Kelly was within the field serving a double-minor for roughing. Sprong’s shot from the left circle went previous Senators goalie Anton Forsberg’s glove and into the correct facet on the 4:36 mark. That was his twelfth of the yr and fourth for Seattle since being acquired from the Washington Capitals on the commerce deadline.

“If you get 4 minutes, you possibly can create numerous momentum, and we did that,” Sprong stated. “We haven’t gotten many power-play objectives the final couple of minutes (having gone 0 for 16 till Beniers scored one towards New Jersey final Saturday). We acquired a four-minute energy play early within the recreation and we wished to get off to an excellent begin there.”

Tkachuk tied it 1-1 at 1:12 of the second together with his team-leading twenty eighth of the yr. His onerous shot from the left level was stopped by Kraken goalie Chris Driedger. However Driedger wasn’t capable of seize the free puck, and it slid beneath him and into the web.

Holden gave Ottawa a 2-1 lead on the 3:15 mark when he took a cross-ice move from Nikita Zaitsev and drilled a slap shot from the left circle excessive into the correct facet for his fifth.

After Beniers’ equalizer, Rask put Seattle again in entrance 3-2 late within the second with a slap shot from the center of the left circle at 16:45.

Ottawa managed 14 photographs, and Driedger saved 12. Forsberg had 25 saves for the Senators.

“We had fairly good puck strain in every single place,” Hakstol stated. “It appeared like we had been a step faster than they had been a lot of the evening. If you’re enjoying with out the puck, that’s essential, and with the puck, it’s much more essential.”

Ottawa coach D.J. Smith was not happy with any components of his workforce’s recreation.

“All of the issues we’ve carried out of late to have success, we didn’t do at this time,” Smith stated. “Off the push, turnovers, staying on pucks, simply numerous dangerous penalties — it simply wasn’t an excellent recreation. Typically you are taking penalties, however simply dangerous ones, that allowed us to not have any rhythm. Offensively, we had little or no zone time.”

NOTES: The groups cut up their two-game season sequence. The Senators gained in additional time on March 10 at dwelling, 4-3. … Monday’s contest was initially scheduled for Jan. 6, however was postponed for COVID-19 points. It was the final of 10 such make-up video games for Seattle and the eleventh of 12 makeups for Ottawa, with No. 12 scheduled for Tuesday at Vancouver. … Former Seattle Seahawks star and Tremendous Bowl champion Marshawn Lynch, together with Grammy winner and Seattle native Macklemore had been introduced on Monday as the latest members of the Kraken’s investor group. They had been launched to the group previous to the opening faceoff.

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