SEATTLE — Jared McCann and Matty Beniers extended their goal streaks to four and three games, respectively, as the Seattle Kraken tied the game twice but couldn’t recover a third-period goal in time, falling 5-4 Thursday night to previously winless Vancouver.
Relief belonged to the Canucks, who were going for their first victory of the season in their eighth try.
In the first period, the Kraken decisions were too late and the passes too hard. In the second, they weren’t seeing plays all the way through. They pressed hard in the third. Vancouver goaltender Thatcher Demko was wobbling, weaving, diving and getting help from behind from teammate Oliver Ekman-Larsson in the form of a last-ditch save. The puck stayed out.
