POST-GAME INSTANT ANALYSIS: Seattle at Detroit
Seattle is once again a traveling squad as they began a four-game road trip in Detroit against the white-hot Red Wings who had won five in a row by a margin of three or more goals each.
But the Kraken were up to the task.
They looked to be a composed and aggressive club that built up a 3-1 advantage in the middle frame. And while some lapses allowed for Detroit’s top players (Dylan Larkin, Alex Debrincat, and Shane Gostisbehere) to get on the scoresheet when the home team was on the power play, the Kraken found a way.
With 1:22 to go in regulation, 40-goal-scorer of last season Jared McCann found the back of the net to tie the game at 4, before Jordan Eberle – fed by a cross-slot pass from McCann – secured the overtime win with less than five seconds remaining on the clock.
Let’s look at the game “by the numbers.”
Seattle deserved to win this game. They won every period and across all 43:04 of 5-on-5 play, generated 62.5-percent of all shot volume and 60.11-percent of all shot quality.
In the wake of the Andre Burakovsky injury, Dave Hakstol switched up three of his four forward lines and it brought good results. All four lines created at least 50-percent of all shot attempts when on the ice with Matty Beniers’ line leading the way with 80-percent of all shot attempts and 78-percent of all shot quality in 10:54 of playing time.
Jared McCann, who scored the late power play goal that forced overtime, led all Kraken in individual shot quality with .46 expected goals on six shot attempts.
McCann also had the primary helper on the game-winner by Jordan Eberle. A fair gift to his teammate since Eberle has assisted on 23 McCann goals in Seattle (15 primary setups). For the record, this was McCann’s ninth assist for the assistant captain.
Jaden Schwartz had two goals this game – his third power play goal of the campaign followed by an even-strength score off the rush later in the same period.
Schwartz’s second goal of the game and Tye Kartye’s second goal of the season were 1:10 apart marking the second time the Kraken have had a response goal to their own score this season. Both times that has happened, Seattle has won the game.
For the second time this season, the Kraken power play scored two goals – they have won both of those games.
For the first time this season, the Kraken gave up more than one power play goal against. They are now 18-for-22 when playing a skater down. Detroit came into this game the top-ranked power play in terms of shot quality generated and converted three times against the Kraken.
In their strongest performance this season, the Kraken won 67-percent of all 5-on-5 battles.
Here’s a look at our data-driven Instant Analysis from Sportlogiq (click HERE for how to read this graphic):
2023-10-25 03:32:36
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