Field Level Media
22 Jan 2026, 11:10 GMT+10
(Photo credit: Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images)
Vince Dunn and Jared McCann each had a goal and an assist as the Seattle Kraken snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory against the visiting New York Islanders on Wednesday night.
Matty Beniers and Kaapo Kakko also scored for Seattle after coach Lane Lambert made changes on all four offensive lines and two of three defensive pairings in an effort to shake up a team that was in an 0-3-1 slump.
Kraken goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves.
Anthony Duclair tallied for the Islanders, who completed a seven-game trip with a 3-3-1 record. Goalie Ilya Sorokin stopped 21 of 24 shots.
The Islanders were 1 for 7 with the man advantage against Seattle's league-worst penalty kill.
Dunn broke a 1-1 tie at 13:37 of the second period on an odd-man rush.
Ben Meyers carried the puck over the blue line and sent a cross-ice pass to linemate Ryan Winterton on the right wing. Dunn, a defenseman, skated down the slot and Winterton fed him for a wrist shot just inside the left post as Sorokin tried to slide across the crease.
Kakko made it 3-1 at 16:28 of the middle frame.
Jaden Schwartz tracked down a stretch pass from Dunn behind the Islanders' net and outmuscled defenseman Scott Mayfield for the puck. Schwartz passed to Kakko at the top of the right faceoff circle, and Kakko's wrist shot went in off the far post. Dunn was originally credited with an assist, but a video review determined Mayfield touched the puck before Schwartz stole it.
McCann iced the victory with an empty-net goal at 16:32 of the third.
The Islanders opened the scoring on the power play at 2:38 of the first period.
Mathew Barzal, who played his junior hockey in Seattle, drove the puck behind the net and dropped it off for Calum Ritchie in the left corner. Ritchie spotted a wide-open Duclair for a one-timer from just inside the left faceoff dot that pinged off the far post and into the net.
Duclair produced his eighth goal in his past eight games after netting just four over his first 39 contests of the season.
The Kraken tied it with a two-man advantage at 10:40 of the period as Beniers tipped Dunn's shot from the top of the right faceoff circle past Sorokin.
--Field Level Media
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