Jordan Eberle scored twice against his former team as the Seattle Kraken defeated the visiting Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Saturday night.
Seattle’s Tye Kartye also tallied, Matty Beniers had a pair of assists and goaltender Joey Daccord made 31 saves to improve to 5-1-1.
Defensemen Evan Bouchard and Darnell Nurse scored for the Oilers, who had won nine of their previous 10 games against Seattle. Leon Draisaitl had two assists and Stuart Skinner stopped 20 of 23 shots.
Leading 2-1, Eberle extended Seattle’s advantage on a breakaway at 12:11 of the third period after the puck was chipped ahead by Beniers.
The Oilers pulled within a goal as Nurse redirected Mattias Ekholm’s shot from the right point past Daccord at 14:35.
The Kraken opened the scoring at 1:23 of the first period. Rookie Berkly Catton, playing his first home game, banked the puck off the left-wing boards to create a 2-on-1 rush. Beniers carried the puck across the blue line and fed Eberle in the slot, who beat Skinner with a wrist shot to the glove side.
Seattle doubled its advantage at 6:35 of the second thanks to its fourth line. Kartye blocked a shot in the defensive zone and then raced up the ice as Ryan Winterton carried the puck down the right wing. Two defenders converged on Winterton and he sent a pass back in the high slot to Kartye, who beat a diving Skinner with a shot just inside the left post.
The Oilers got on the board with the man advantage at 15:39 of the second on Bouchard’s booming slap shot from the top of the right faceoff circle that beat a screened Daccord inside the far post.
Kraken defenseman Brandon Montour returned to the lineup after missing four games following the death of his older brother Cameron, 34, to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
–Field Level Media
