SEATTLE (AP) — Devin Cooley withstood a barrage of pictures to make 49 saves in his fourth profession begin, Kyle Burroughs and Fabian Zetterlund scored lower than a minute aside within the second interval, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Seattle Kraken 3-1 on Thursday night time.
San Jose Sharks 3, Seattle Kraken 1: Field rating
The Sharks spoiled Seattle’s last house sport of the season, benefiting from two defensive breakdowns by the Kraken simply 51 seconds aside and a terrific efficiency by Cooley.
Cooley, who made his debut for the Sharks final month, is a Bay Space native and the primary California-born goalie to start out for San Jose. He made 34 saves in his final begin towards St. Louis to choose up his first profession victory.
He was even higher towards Seattle.
Cooley already had 33 saves after two durations, turning away flurries of probabilities by the Kraken across the San Jose web. Within the third interval, he made terrific stops on Jaden Schwartz on an influence play and Adam Larsson with an additional attacker on the ice and two defenders hobbling after blocking pictures. Shane Wright additionally hit the submit within the third interval.
Burroughs snapped a 1-1 tie along with his second objective of the season, ending William Eklund’s go on an odd-man rush at 14:46 of the second interval. Lower than a minute later, Seattle’s protection misplaced monitor of Zetterlund as he flashed in entrance of the online. His redirection of Mikael Granlund’s go slipped below the arm of Kraken goalie Joey Daccord, who completed with 20 saves. It was Zetterlund’s twenty second objective.
Luke Kunin scored within the first interval on a redirection of Henry Thurn’s shot from the blue line.
Brian Dumoulin set a career-high along with his sixth objective of the season halfway by the primary interval, however Seattle in any other case couldn’t clear up Cooley. Each Seattle participant had a minimum of one shot on objective and the Kraken had extra pictures by two durations than 60 different video games this season.
Seattle completed 17-18-6 at house, however it was a disappointing conclusion to the house schedule and the Kraken did not capitalize on the success of final season after they made the second spherical of the playoffs of their second yr of existence.
UP NEXT
San Jose Sharks: San Jose will host Minnesota on Saturday night time.
Seattle Kraken: Seattle begins its last highway journey on Saturday at Dallas.
Tuesday: Wright scores once more, Seattle Kraken blast Arizona Coyotes 5-0
