DALLAS — A brief road trip that began with so much promise for the Kraken proved to be one they just couldn’t finish.
For the second time in two nights, the Kraken ran up a two-goal lead in the first period only to see things crumble from there. This time, it was a three-goal second period against them that begat a 3-2 loss Saturday to the Dallas Stars on a night the Kraken left goalie Chris Driedger to fend mostly for himself in the middle frame.
Much like the script in Friday’s defeat against the Minnesota Wild, where they allowed five goals in the middle frame, the Kraken yielded a pair of quick goals by Roope Hintz from in-close to even things up before the second period was nine minutes told. Then, Ryan Donato tried to blindly dump a backward pass behind his own net, only to have Denis Gurianov intercept it and feed Vladislav Namestnikov all alone in the slot for an easy goal at the 11:34 mark to give Dallas the lead for good.
