Shane Wright found the net twice as the Seattle Kraken rolled to a 5-2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night, pushing their winning streak to three games.
Matty Beniers and Brandon Montour also scored for Seattle, which produced five or more goals in consecutive games for the first time in franchise history. Joey Daccord anchored the victory with 29 saves as the Kraken improved to four wins in their last five outings.
Toronto’s goals came from Nicholas Robertson and Morgan Rielly, but the Maple Leafs continued to struggle, dropping to 0-5-1 over their past six games. Anthony Stolarz, making his second straight start after a two-month absence due to an upper-body injury, surrendered a goal on the first shot for the second game in a row and finished with 17 saves.
Wright, the No. 4 pick in the 2022 NHL Draft, recorded the second multi-goal performance of his career. The breakout came after a 13-game scoreless stretch, as he tallied his eighth and ninth goals of the season.
Beniers opened the scoring just 1:21 into the game, extending his point streak to five games and setting a Kraken record with 10 goals in a single calendar month. Robertson responded late in the first period to tie the game 1-1.
Seattle seized control early in the second. Wright converted a rebound with a backhand 6:23 in, and Montour struck just 31 seconds later to make it 3-1.
Toronto pulled within one on Rielly’s power-play goal early in the third, but Wright answered again at 8:32 after forcing a turnover, restoring Seattle’s two-goal cushion. Jared McCann sealed the win with an empty-net goal in the final minutes, the 199th of his NHL career.
The Kraken did suffer a scare when rookie Berkly Catton exited in the first period after taking a hit to the head from Oliver Ekman-Larsson and did not return.
Up next
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Maple Leafs: Host Vancouver on Saturday.
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Kraken: Visit Vegas on Saturday night.
