ST. PAUL, Minn. — There were moments before the surging Kraken opened the scoring floodgates here Thursday night when goaltender Martin Jones was the only thing standing between them and a second-period deficit.
And then, after second-period goals by Morgan Geekie, Jamie Oleksiak and Alex Wennberg stunned the home crowd at Xcel Energy Center arena, it would be Jones coming through again with two huge stops late in the frame to keep his team’s sizable lead heading to intermission. That lead stood up from there and Wennberg would add a second goal in the third period of a 4-0 win over the Minnesota Wild for a Kraken team that’s now captured three straight and four of its past five.
Jones had missed a game two nights prior in Calgary, staying in Seattle while tending to a personal matter. He rejoined the team here and was back in goal for the fourth shutout in team history, as he has been for all but one of six matchups missed by No. 1 goalie Philipp Grubauer after he suffered a lower body injury two weeks ago at Colorado.
