Joey Daccord stopped 28 of 29 photographs to steer the visiting Seattle Kraken to their third consecutive win, 2-1, over the Los Angeles Kings on Monday evening.
Matty Beniers and Brandon Montour each scored objectives for Seattle (34-38-6, 74 factors). Daccord was aided by 30 blocked photographs by the Kraken.
Quinton Byfield scored a objective for Los Angeles (44-24-9, 97 factors), which had a four-game win streak snapped. Regardless of the loss, the Kings maintained a four-point lead over third-place Edmonton, a 3-2 loser at Anaheim, within the Pacific Division within the battle for dwelling ice within the playoffs.
Darcy Kuemper completed with 26 saves for Los Angeles. Kuemper prolonged his streak of permitting two objectives or much less to 14 video games, tied for the second-longest since 1967-68 behind Calgary’s Miikka Kiprusoff’s 16-gamer in 2003-04.
Los Angeles jumped out to 1-0 lead on the 1:48 mark of the primary interval on Byfield’s twentieth objective, tying a profession excessive. Kyle Burrough backhanded a shot from alongside the left boards that Byfield deflected and swept within the rebound with one hand.
The Kings had a great opportunity to construct on the lead halfway by the interval when Josh Mahura picked up a high-sticking penalty and Adam Larsson hooked Andrei Kuzmenko simply 9 seconds later. However Los Angeles managed only one shot on objective over the 1:51 of the 5-on-3 energy play.
Seattle then took a 2-1 lead on the finish of the interval with two objectives within the span of 54 seconds. Beniers tied it on the 18:35 mark when he redirected a Jamie Oleksiak go into the crease into an open web. Montour adopted with a wrist shot from the left circle previous Kuemper’s glove aspect and contained in the far proper publish for what proved to be the game-winner.
Kuemper stored it a one-goal sport throughout a scoreless second interval with a trio of Grade-A saves, together with a highlight-reel paddle save on Jaden Schwartz, reaching again along with his stick to show away Schwartz’s wrist shot at a wide-open left aspect of the online.
The Kings, who twice hit the publish on photographs by Brandt Clarke and Warren Foegele within the third interval, pulled Kuemper for an additional attacker with a little bit over two minutes remaining however didn’t garner scoring probability.
–Subject Degree Media