ELMONT, New York — Among the bigger challenges for the Kraken during this four-game road trip through some of the NHL’s tougher buildings was demonstrating consistency in their give-no-quarter play.
Throughout the season’s opening few months, they’d shown the ability to surprise some quality teams, only to revert to their prior disjointed form the very next game. That wasn’t the case on this now-concluded trip, including Wednesday night’s 3-0 victory over a New York Islanders team that mirrors the Kraken’s desired style of playing tight, defense-first hockey.
That defense-first plan got the Kraken the first shutout in franchise history.
