Washington Capitals Fall To Seattle Kraken 5-2

SEATTLE (AP) — Jaden Schwartz had a extremity and 3 assists and the Seattle Kraken bushed the Washington Capitals 5-2 connected Sunday nighttime to drawback a six-game losing streak.

Calle Jarnkrok and Yanni Gorde each added a extremity and an assist, and Schwartz reached 401 vocation points successful Seattle’s archetypal triumph since Nov. 4.

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Jared McCann and Adam Larsson besides scored for Seattle, which got 37 saves from Philipp Grubauer.

Washington entered the crippled connected a 6-0-1 streak and took a 1-0 pb conscionable 3 1/2 minutes successful connected Tom Wilson’s slapshot. But the Caps were playing for the 2nd nighttime successful a row, and looked bushed arsenic the Kraken pushed them astir during the bosom of a three-goal 2nd period.

“The crippled got distant from america successful astir 4 minutes,” Capitals halfway Nic Dowd said. “And past I thought we really played truly good the remainder of the game, controlled the game. I deliberation we had similar 20 shots successful the 3rd period, thing similar that. And we had chances to triumph that crippled if we hadn’t fto it get distant from america early.”

Alex Ovechkin scored his 15th extremity of the play for Washington, which hasn’t mislaid since Nov. 6. Wilson assisted connected the goal.

The Kraken tied it precocious successful the archetypal play with Evgeny Kuznetsov serving 2 minutes for holding. Schwartz, a changeless menace successful the archetypal 40 minutes with 5 shots and precocious energy, bounced a adjacent changeable disconnected Vitek Vanecek’s instrumentality and McCann backhanded it past the goalie from 10 feet successful beforehand of the nett to necktie the crippled astatine 15:58. Morgan Geekie besides had an assist.

Seattle has scored astatine slightest 1 power-play extremity successful 4 consecutive games.

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Schwartz enactment the Kraken up 2-1 with a cleanup of Carson Soucy’s redirection astatine 6:17 successful the 2nd period. It was the Kraken’s archetypal pb successful much than 266 minutes.

Larsson made it 3-1 conscionable 43 seconds aboriginal erstwhile helium buried a breakaway slapshot connected a walk up from Gorde and Jarnkrok.

Schwartz was again a origin aboriginal successful the play erstwhile helium poked the puck distant from the Capitals astatine the antiaircraft bluish enactment up to Jarnkrok, who bushed his defender and sent a changeable past Vanecek from the near faceoff ellipse with astir six minutes left. Schwartz’s past assistance came arsenic Gorde finished things disconnected with an empty-net goal.

“Schwartzie is truly bully down beneath the circles successful the violative portion and you saw him, helium was successful his bureau tonight,” Kraken manager Dave Hakstol said. “And helium produced. He produced and had a truly bully nighttime offensively.”

Vanecek stopped 26 of 30 shots successful his 3rd nonaccomplishment of the season.

NOTES: Capitals F Conor Sheary (upper assemblage injury) and F T.J. Oshie (lower assemblage injury) sat retired and are listed arsenic time to time aft some played Saturday successful San Jose. Sheary scored 2 goals against the Sharks, but was scratched aft warmups. Oshie, who was calved successful adjacent Everett, had been retired of the lineup since Oct. 27 earlier Saturday’s game. Washington recalled guardant Brett Leason from Hershey of the AHL and reassigned guardant Garrett Pilon. Leason made his debut connected Oct. 29 and has scored 3 points successful 10 games for the Caps this season.

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