![]() The Islanders opened the scoring on their second shot of the game. Any thoughts that the Islanders might trade Horvat back to the Pacific Division were quelched earlier this week when he signed an eight-year contract with his new team. There was some speculation that the Kraken and Kings might have been interested in acquiring Horvat, but it seemed unlikely that the Canucks would trade their top player to a Pacific Division rival. That goal at 5:08 of the second period made it 4-0. Former Seattle Thunderbirds star Mat Barzel took the puck away from Yanni Gourde along the boards and found Horvat with a lead pass that he wristed one home from the right side. Playing his fourth game of the season against the Kraken, Horvat celebrated his new surroundings with his first Islander goal. The contest also marked the Islander home debut of former Vancouver Canuck captain Bo Horvat. It’s not ideal for sure to go down to 11 forwards and 59 minutes to go in the game, but that’s not the reason that we couldn’t get ourselves going tonight.” (Burakovsky’s injury) is not the reason for tonight. “It’s not ideal to lose a guy on his very first shift 20 seconds into the hockey game, but those things happen,” said Hakstol. Burakovsky only played 21 seconds in the game. 21, appeared to suffer some sort of leg injury when he pulled up short at the blue line. Burakovsky, who sat out one game with an injury on Jan. But the Kraken lost Andre Burakovsky, their overall leading scorer, in the first minute of the contest. Beniers, the leading scorer among NHL rookies had the first shot of the game, foiled by Sorokin’s kick save. The team welcomed back rookie sensation Matty Beniers and Schwartz from the injured list, and hope to have defenseman Justin Schultz back in the lineup before the end of the current five-game road trip. On the injury front, it was a mixed bag for the Kraken. They were blanked by Minnesota’s Marc-Andre Fleury, 1-0, on Nov. T The Kraken have now been shutout twice this season. After making one stop on Vince Dunn’s drive from the point, he slid to his right, to make a pad save on attempted tip-in by Alex Wennberg. 923 save percentage, had his biggest save on Seattle’s only power play of the game. Turning aside 31 Kraken shots, Sorokin recorded his second consecutive shutout and his fifth of the season (tying him for first with Washington’s Darcy Kuemper in that department). Islanders’ All-Star goalie Ilya Sorokin was the star of this contest. We don’t want to use it as an excuse but we know we’ve got a lot better than that and we’ll get our energy tomorrow and look at a few things and regroup.” We just looked a little bit off, a little bit tired. ![]() “But I think it was pretty evident in just our puck play and structure I thought our energy was just a little bit low. “We started okay, the first few shifts,” said Kraken alternate captain Jaden Schwartz. The suddenly hot Islanders improve to 27-22-5 as they battle for a playoff spot in the Metropolitan Division. The Kraken fall to 29-16-5, tied for first place with the Los Angeles Kings in the Pacific Division. Playing the first game after the All-Star break, Seattle showed the rust of having nine days off. While the Kraken may have looked a bit tired at the end of January, having played 14 games in 25 days, they’ve actually struggled more coming back after five or more days off (0-4-2). We could not find a way to give ourselves energy and couldn’t find the ability to make a play to get ourselves going in the right direction.” “We didn’t sustain any tempo to our game. “We really didn’t have anything,” said Seattle coach Dave Hakstol. Playing in an arena adjacent to Belmont Race Track, the third leg of the Kentucky Derby, it could be said that the Kraken was late coming out of the starting gate. But for anyone watching the game, the Islanders took advantage of Kraken defensive lapses, scored two goals in two minutes in the second period, and shutdown the Kraken for the remainder of the contest. Or that the Kraken might have had a slight edge in play. That might give someone the idea that it was a pretty even hockey game. In last night’s Seattle Kraken, 4-0 loss to the New York Islanders at UBS Arena, the Kraken outshot their hosts, 31-27. Sometimes statistics can paint a picture of how a game went.
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