Late surge lifts Kraken to win over Wild
Tye Kartye scored the go-ahead goal with 2:40 remaining in the third period and the Seattle Kraken held on for a 4-3 win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday in the season finale for both teams at Saint Paul, Minn. Yanni Gourde scored two goals for Seattle (34-35-13, 81 points), which snapped a four-game losing streak. Matty Beniers added a goal, while Oliver Bjorkstrand and Brandon Tanev each had two assists. Kraken goaltender Joey Daccord stopped 21 of 24 shots to finish 19-18-11. Kirill Kaprizov, Mats Zuccarello and Brock Faber scored one goal apiece for Minnesota (39-33-10, 87 points). Matt Boldy logged two assists. Wild goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury turned aside 23 of 26
shots. Kartye tipped in a shot by Bjorkstand to put Seattle on top in the final three minutes. It was the 11th goal of his rookie season. Gourde added an empty-netter to make it 4-2 with 1:46 remaining, his second goal of the game and 11th of the season. Hartman finished the scoring on the power play with 1:05 to go. Minnesota opened the scoring on a power play 4:04 into the first period. Kaprizov fired a rising wrist shot from the left circle for his 46th goal of the season and his fourth in the past three games. The fourth-year veteran finished one goal shy of his career-high goal total, which he set during the 2021-22 campaign. Seattle responded with a power-play goal with nine minutes remaining in the second period.
Kraken defenseman Justin Schultz threw a long shot at the net, and Beniers deflected the puck into the net for his 15th goal of the season. Seattle took a 2-1 lead on a short-handed goal 6:38 into the third period. Gourde got the puck on a breakaway and beat Fleury. The Wild pulled even at 2-2 with 8:47 remaining when Zuccarello scored on a breakaway for his 12th goal.
