Seattle Kraken's losing streak continues with loss to Red Wings

Kate Shefte, The Seattle Times on Dec 7, 2025

Published in Hockey

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SEATTLE — Red Wings 4, Kraken 3 at Climate Pledge Arena

Notable: The Seattle Kraken turned in a much cleaner effort on the heels of consecutive blowouts and kept Saturday’s game close, but dropped their fourth straight game in regulation.

The beleaguered Kraken penalty kill made it most of the way through its first appearance of the night, but Emmitt Finnie put Detroit up 1-0 with 15 seconds left in a penalty to Berkly Catton.

A pair of Kraken defensemen — one who scores semi-regularly, one who doesn’t — provided a pair of response goals to help Seattle hang with its visitor. Kraken captain Jordan Eberle provided a drop pass and a screen for teammate Brandon Montour, who scored his sixth of the season late in the first period.

Andrew Copp poked a puck through scrambling Kraken goaltender Joey Daccord to score the Detroit Red Wings’ second goal, and had to settle for delayed gratification. Play continued for another 25 seconds before a shot on Detroit netminder John Gibson went into the netting, which allowed for a review. In the meantime, replays made it painfully obvious that the puck crossed the goal line before Seattle’s Ryan Lindgren swept it away.

Daccord was clearly annoyed the play wasn’t whistled dead. The puck was hanging out next to the goalpost for a while, then disappeared beneath his pads. It was hard to tell from the available camera angles whether it was still visible to on-ice officials.

About a minute and a half later, Adam Larsson flicked a shot through traffic and scored his second of the season to tie the game at 2. His defensive partner Vince Dunn recorded his 300th NHL point with an assist.

The Kraken took their first and only lead of the game, 3-2, when Chandler Stephenson tipped a Larsson shot into the net.

Seattle was dominating the final two minutes of the second period, but gave up a costly 2-on-1 with 28 seconds left. James van Riemsdyk made it 3-all heading into the third period.

Shane Wright hit the crossbar on an odd-man rush, which felt worse when Patrick Kane sniped the winner glove side on Daccord (21 saves) with 2:29 left until what felt like inevitable overtime. Daccord was summoned to the bench for the extra attacker but the Red Wings held them back.

Player of the game: Larsson (one goal, one assist)

Goal of the game: Kane’s all-important winner at the very end of regulation.

On tap: The Kraken kicked off three-game homestand against Detroit. Next up is the Minnesota Wild on Monday. The Wild saw their 12-game point streak end Thursday against the Calgary Flames.