Connor Ingram made 35 saves through overtime and then didn’t allow a goal in the shootout as the Arizona Coyotes defeated the Seattle Kraken 4-3 on Tuesday in Tempe, Ariz.
Clayton Keller had a goal and an assist and Nick Schmaltz added two helpers for the Coyotes. Matias Maccelli and Barrett Hayton also scored for Arizona, and Nick Bjugstad was the only player to tally in the shootout for either team.
Eeli Tolvanen had a goal and an assist for Seattle, and Justin Schultz and Jaden Schwartz also tallied goals. Matty Beniers had two assists, and goaltender Joey Daccord, a former Arizona State standout, stopped 24 of 27 shots.
In the second round of the shootout, Bjugstad cruised down the left wing, deked Daccord and lifted a forehand shot over the prone goalie.
The Kraken scored first as Tolvanen converted a two-on-zero rush with Yanni Gourde just 40 seconds into the game. The two Seattle forwards burst over the blue line alone and passed the puck back and forth to get Ingram leaning one way before Tolvanen put the puck into the open side of the net.
Maccelli tied the score at 6:07 of the first on a nice individual effort. He carried the puck over the blue line down the middle of the ice, used defenseman Adam Larsson as a screen and beat Daccord with a wrist shot from between the top of the faceoff circles. It was the 11th consecutive game in which the Kraken blew a lead.
The Coyotes took the lead on the power play at 3:59 of the second period. Hayton, stationed in front of the net, tipped Keller’s slap shot from the right faceoff circle inside the near post.
Arizona’s advantage was short-lived, as the Kraken tied it just 58 seconds later.
Jordan Eberle sent the puck to Beniers in the right corner, and the reigning Calder Trophy winner as Rookie of the Year spotted Schultz skating from left to right along the blue line. Schultz took a pass and beat Ingram on a wrist shot from the top of the right faceoff circle.
The teams traded power-play goals 42 seconds apart early in the third to remain tied.
Ingram stopped Schwartz’s original tip of Beniers’ shot, but Schwartz reached past the goalie to shovel the rebound over the goal line at 1:16.
Keller tied it at 1:58 on a slap shot from just outside the right faceoff circle, the same play the Coyotes tallied on earlier.
–Field Level Media
