Jamie Oleksiak gets tiebreaking goal late in 3rd period, Kraken beat Islanders 3-2

By Shane Lantz

Jamie Oleksiak scored the tiebreaking extremity with 3:13 left, and the Seattle Kraken bushed the New York Islanders 3-2 connected Saturday for their 4th consecutive win.

Yanni Gourde and Jared McCann besides scored for Seattle, and Brandon Tanev had 2 assists. Joey Daccord stopped 22 shots.

Brock Nelson and Pierre Engvall scored for the Islanders, who had earned a constituent successful 5 consecutive games (3-0-2). Ilya Sorokin finished with 24 saves.

Gourde enactment Seattle up with his archetypal extremity of the play astatine 8:10 of the archetypal period, but Engvall tied it with 6:22 left.

After a scoreless 2nd period, Nelson tapped gave New York the pb astatine 4:49 of the third, but McCann tied it again little than a infinitesimal aboriginal with his team-high ninth extremity of the season.

Takeaways

Kraken: McCann’s extremity continued his torrid November for the Kraken. McCann has 7 points successful his past 5 games dating backmost to Nov. 5th, with 4 goals and 3 assists successful that stretch.

Islanders: The Islanders fertile 25th successful the league successful goals per game, and person yet to triumph a crippled this play erstwhile scoring less than 4 goals.

Key moment

Nelson’s 3rd play extremity could’ve been a backbreaker, arsenic the Kraken hadn’t done overmuch connected discourtesy since the archetypal period. However, McCann rapidly responded with a extremity of his ain and the Kraken ne'er looked back.

Key stat

The Kraken are outscoring opponents 15-8 during their four-game triumph streak.

Up Next

Islanders play astatine Calgary connected Tuesday, portion Kraken big the New York Rangers connected Sunday.