There was plenty of talk coming out of a prior night’s defeat about how the Kraken would have to avoid spending too much time in their own defensive zone.
Alas, that didn’t work out so well Tuesday night as the Kraken could have charged the visiting New York Islanders rent for all the time they spent camped out on their doorstep. By the time the Kraken finally woke up nearly two periods in, it was too late to avoid a 5-2 defeat in what’s now a five-game losing streak.
The prior night’s loss in Vancouver had seen the Kraken undone by a terrible second period. But this time around, it was the first two periods that took the Kraken and the announced crowd of 17,151 at Climate Pledge Arena out of the game when it mattered.
