SEATTLE — Justin Schultz scored with 2:25 left in extra time on Friday evening, giving the Seattle Kraken a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers.
It was a season-high fourth straight win for Seattle, and its sixth straight one-goal sport (4-0-2). The Kraken additionally tied a franchise document with factors of their eighth straight sport (6-0-2).
Oliver Bjorkstrand, enjoying in his five hundredth NHL contest, performed the puck alongside the suitable boards and located Schultz on the close to put up. Schultz slid it previous Flyers goalie Carter Hart for his third of the season. Hart completed with 27 saves.
“I just kind of waited for the opportunity,” Schultz mentioned. “Bjorky and (Yanni Gourde) did a great job just holding onto the puck, and we found an opportunity. (I was) lucky enough to (have it) go in.”
“I think we’re just sticking with it. And guys are working hard and we know it’s there just wasn’t coming for us,” Schultz added. “We believe in this group. We have almost the same group as last year so we know we can do it, and like I said, we’re heading in the right direction now.”
Travis Konecny gave the Flyers a 1-0 lead together with his team-leading seventeenth objective of the 12 months at 16:21 of the primary together with his fourth short-handed tally of the season. On a breakaway, Scott Laughton despatched the puck by the crease, and Konecny, on the opposite aspect of the web, tipped it contained in the put up.
PHOTOS: Justin Schultz scores in OT to provide Kraken 2-1 win over Flyers
Philadelphia has 9 short-handed objectives this season, second-most within the league.
Vince Dunn tied the sport for the Kraken with a power-play objective at 5:45 of the third. Seattle gained a faceoff within the left wing circle, and Bjorkstrand bought the puck to Dunn simply contained in the blue line.
Dunn’s shot flew into the again proper nook of the web. It was his sixth of the 12 months and his team-leading thirtieth level.
Joey Daccord had 27 saves for the Kraken.
“Another typical game tonight – a tight one-goal game, a 2-1 game that goes into overtime. We’ve been involved in a lot of those,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol mentioned. “We’ve talked a lot about being comfortable in those situations. Tonight, we probably didn’t do it exactly the way we wanted. We made a mistake on the power play and had to chase the game against a really good defensive team. But we stayed with it. We didn’t try to do anything crazy. We just stayed on it.”
Philadelphia’s street factors streak reached 9 video games (6-0-3). This is the second sport of a four-game Western swing that began with a 4-1 win at Pacific Division co-leader Vancouver on Thursday.
“This is a hard trip coming off a break and getting on a plane for five hours and playing two in a row,” mentioned Philadelphia’s John Tortorella, who coached his 1,five hundredth NHL sport – the eighth coach all-time and the primary U.S.-born coach to take action. “The guys handled themselves well. There wasn’t much going on for a lot of the game. They ended up generating a little bit more as the game went on. It’s just grind away and find a way to get a point.”
UP NEXT
Kraken: Host Vegas in Winter Classic on New Year’s Day.
Flyers: Visit Calgary on Sunday.
