Tuesday Round-Up: Panthers KO Kraken, Lightning Fall At Oilers
SEATTLE (AP) — Aleksander Barkov scored the tying goal late in the second period and then scored in the shootout, and Sam Reinhart scored the clinching shootout goal as the Florida Panthers beat the Seattle Kraken 2-1 on Tuesday night.
Reinhart also had the assist on Barkov’s equalizer.
Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, who had 17 saves through regulation and overtime, made stick saves on Eeli Tolvanen and Oliver Bjorkstrand in the shootout.
Chandler Stephenson’s third goal of the season gave the Kraken (14-14-2) a 1-0 lead with 4:21 left in the opening period. Jared McCann had the secondary assist, his 100th in a Kraken uniform.
Barkov’s ninth goal of the season on a shot from the right circle tied it for Florida (18-9-2) with 1:01 left in the second period, with Reinhart notching his 20th assist.
Kraken goalie Joey Daccord finished with 32 saves.
Takeaways
Panthers: Florida had been on a scoring spree, tallying 31 goals in its previous six games. The Panthers had at least three goals in each of those games, plus two games with six goals and one with seven. Their last game with just one was Nov. 25 in a 4-1 loss to Washington.
Kraken: Brandon Montour saw 22 minutes, 30 seconds of ice time against his former team, but got just one shot on goal. Montour had 37 goals and 147 points in 239 career games with the Panthers, helping them win the Stanley Cup on June 24, then signed with the Kraken as a free agent on July 1.
Key moment
Barkov went around to Daccod’s left side to knock in his shootout attempt, then Reinhart did the same, keeping the puck just out of reach of Daccord’s left pad to tuck it into the far corner.
Key stat
In addition to Daccord’s 32 saves, the Kraken blocked 18 more shots by the Panthers.
Up next
Panthers visit Vancouver on Thursday; Kraken host Boston on Thursday.
EDMONTON (CP) – Leon Draisaitl had a goal and an assist as the Edmonton Oilers won their third game in a row, hanging on to get past the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 on Tuesday.
Connor McDavid also scored for the Oilers (16-10-2) who have won six of their last seven.
Jake Guentzel replied with the lone goal for the Lightning (14-10-2) who had a modest two-game winning streak halted.
Stuart Skinner made 20 stops in net for the Oilers, while Andrei Vasilevskiy recorded 23 saves between the pipes for the Lightning.
TAKEAWAYS
Lightning: Brayden Point has been picking up the points like crazy of late. His second-period assist gave him nine points in his last three games, after back-to-back four-point nights coming into the contest. Point has 10 goals and 17 points in his last 10 games.
Oilers: McDavid continues to rebound from what was a slow start to the season from his standards with only 10 points in his first 11 games. Since then, he has recorded 28 points in his last 14 games. It was the 57th time in his career he has scored a game’s opening goal.
KEY MOMENT
Edmonton took a 2-1 lead with eight minutes to play in the second period as Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy made a big stop on Draisaitl on a breakaway and attempted to sweep the rebound to safety, only to have it hit defender Victor Hedman and carom into the net. The goal went into the books as Draisaitl’s league-leading 20th of the season, the ninth consecutive year he has hit the mark, tying him with Wayne Gretzky for third most in franchise history. Mark Messier and Jari Kurri both had 10.
KEY STAT
The game featured the last eight Art Ross trophy winners in Edmonton’s McDavid and Draisaitl and Tampa’s Kucherov. McDavid won in 2017, 18, 21, 22 and 23, Draisaitl in 2020 and Kucherov in 2019 and 2024. The last time a game featured the last eight Art Ross winners on the ice at the same time was on Jan. 25, 1997, and featured Wayne Gretzky (Rangers) taking on the Pittsburgh Penguins with Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr. That trio actually combined to win a staggering 21 consecutive Art Ross awards between 1981 and 2001.
UP NEXT
Lightning: Visit the Calgary Flames on Thursday.
Oilers: Visit the Minnesota Wild on Thursday.
