Ryan Donato scores in fourth straight, Kraken topple Blues 5-2

SEATTLE (AP) – Ryan Donato scored in his fourth straight recreation, Carson Soucy, Daniel Sprong and Jared McCann scored in Seattle’s three-goal second interval, and the Kraken beat the St. Louis Blues 5-2 on Tuesday night time.

Kraken 5, Blues 2: Field Rating

Seattle received consecutive video games for the primary time in almost three weeks and snapped the Blues’ four-game win streak.

Donato’s seventh purpose of the season got here at 16:27 of the primary interval and the four-game purpose streak is the longest of his profession. Donato break up St. Louis defenders throughout a change, collected a protracted stretch go from Adam Larsson and beat Blues goalie Thomas Griess.

Soucy scored on the 10-minute mark of the second interval by occurring to be in the best spot after Will Borgen’s shot from the purpose deflected to the facet of the web.

He used one hand to poke the puck previous Griess. Sprong and McCann added objectives simply over two minutes aside late within the interval. Sprong’s eighth purpose got here on a breakaway, whereas McCann scored from behind the purpose line banking his shot off Griess.

McCann leads Seattle with 15 objectives on the season.

Brandon Tanev added an empty-net purpose with 4:13 left.

Martin Jones made 22 saves for Seattle and received for the fourth time in his final 5 begins.

St. Louis seemed as if fatigue lastly caught up. The Blues have been taking part in their third back-to-back within the final 9 days. The Blues had swept by Western Canada with wins in Edmonton, Calgary and Monday night time in Vancouver earlier than operating out of steam in Seattle.

Colton Parayko scored his second of the season for St. Louis at 5:59 of the third interval, and Pavel Buchnevich scored with one second left on an influence play at 10:54 to tug St. Louis inside 4-2. Griess made 28 saves.

The Blues additionally have been with out main scorer Jordan Kyrou because of an upper-body harm, one night time after recording his first profession hat trick in a 5-1 win over Vancouver. Kyrou was checked into the boards by Vancouver’s Kyle Burroughs with 1:31 left within the recreation and didn’t play one other shift.

Kyrou had been on a sizzling streak with 9 factors — six objectives and three assists — within the first three recreation of the Blues’ street journey. Kyrou started the night time as St. Louis’ main scorer with 16 objectives and 32 factors.

NOTES: Tanev was stopped by Griess on a penalty shot early within the third interval after Tanev was tripped from behind on a breakaway. … Logan Brown moved into the lineup for his sixth recreation of the season with Kyrou out.

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