Islanders beat Kraken in coach Lane Lambert's return

Kate Shefte, The Seattle Times on Nov 23, 2025

Published in Hockey

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A scoreless game gave way to the Seattle Kraken’s 10th overtime game in just 22 outings this season. Kyle Palmieri won it on the New York Islanders’ fourth shootout attempt Sunday night at UBS Arena, 1-0.

The Kraken are headed home with a 2-1-1 road swing record.

The trip finale wasn’t a thrilling affair. Weariness likely played a factor, as both sides played the previous day. New York (13-8-2) lost 2-1 at home to the St. Louis Blues, while the Kraken beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in overtime on Brandon Montour’s goal.

In this low-energy but uneasy truce, the Kraken couldn’t afford any funny business from goaltender Joey Daccord, one of two players who didn’t play Saturday. The other was winger Jani Nyman, who was healthy scratched against the Penguins but switched places with Oscar Fisker Mølgaard on Sunday.

Daccord was up for the challenge. He made stops, even as the Islanders came at him in steady, 2-on-1 waves during the first 10 minutes of the second period. He stopped all 34 shots he faced for his seventh career shutout.

Each team had a single, scoreless regulation power play. Seattle’s Jaden Schwartz tried to feed teammate Mason Marchment on their man advantage, but the feed hit a stick on the way through the crease, so the Kraken failed to record an official shot on goal during the Islanders penalty.

There was a too-good-to-be-true attempted connection between the Kraken’s young trio of Shane Wright, Nyman and Berkly Catton, the latter of which is still waiting on his first goal 17 games into his NHL career. Islanders goalie David Rittich (19 saves) swallowed Catton’s unscreened shot.

Bottom-six Kraken center Freddy Gaudreau has been limited to nine games this season because of injury and is still waiting on his first goal in a Seattle jersey. He was first up in the shootout and scored, the only one to beat Rittich on Sunday.

New York’s Bo Horvat had to score to extend the shootout and he did, with a top-shelf snipe so briefly in the net it was almost undetectable. Chandler Stephenson missed for Seattle, then Palmieri sealed the victory for the home team.

The Kraken haven’t won the second game of a back-to-back in 17 attempts. The last time the Kraken won the second game stubbornly remains March 5, 2024. They did manage a standings point Sunday, which is a first in that scenario this season.

Coach Lane Lambert made his first return to USB Arena with the 11-5-6 Kraken. He was behind the Islanders bench from 2022-24 in his only other NHL head coaching gig. He led the Islanders to the postseason in his lone full season as head coach, but was gone by January of the next year.

“That was not fun. That was a low point, for sure,” Lambert told The Seattle Times in September. “But you have to dust yourself off, get up off the mat and reestablish yourself.”

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