> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # ‘We Were Committed’: Kraken Stick to Game Plan, Earn Massive 2-1 Win vs. Hurricanes - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seattle-kraken-carolina-hurricanes-commitment-game-plan/ - Published: 2026-03-03T07:05:15.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:15:50.000Z - Author: Corbin Smith - Tags: News, Game Day, Kraken, Joey Daccord, Kaapo Kakko, Ben Meyers, Lane Lambert, Berkly Catton, Jaden Schwartz, Frederick Gaudreau, Jacob Melanson, Adam Larsson, Vince Dunn \[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="4618"\] ![ The Seattle Kraken celebrate after a goal scored by center Ben Meyers (59) during the second period against the Carolina Hurricanes at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/usatsi_28385071-format-original-1.jpg) The Seattle Kraken celebrate after a goal scored by center Ben Meyers (59) during the second period against the Carolina Hurricanes at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images \[/caption\] SEATTLE, Wash. — The Seattle Kraken knew exactly what they needed to do when the Carolina Hurricanes rolled into Climate Pledge Arena on Monday. Entering the game with the second-best record in the NHL, Carolina averaged the second-most shots on goal per game (32) and had totaled the most combined shots on goal plus shot attempts (2,347 Fenwick For). So it wasn’t a surprise when the Hurricanes outshot Seattle 36-15 by the end of the night. What was a surprise was that the Kraken put more of theirs into the back of the net. Off the back of Joey Daccord and his 35 saves, Seattle secured a hard-fought 2-1 victory. Based on what Carolina brought to the table, it all went according to plan. “We would obviously prefer to spend less time in our zone, but I thought that our guys did a great job blocking shots,” Kraken coach Lane Lambert said. “I thought we were committed. We had good sticks, and I thought our goaltender was good when he had to be, but they come as advertised. “They throw absolutely everything to the net, so they’re looking to beat you to the net and get rebounds and things like that. I thought we did a pretty good job of maintaining our structure, and then we transitioned when we could.” The onslaught started right away, with the Hurricanes outshooting Seattle 13-7 in the opening 20 minutes, tilting the ice and testing Daccord, who embraced the challenge that Carolina poses and sticking to his plan. “I think a big thing with playing a shot-volume team is just controlling your rebounds,” Daccord said. “Because they’re going to try to just get pucks in the net and create chaos in front of the net, so if I can suck pucks up, get a lot of whistles, put pucks in the corner, that helps our D out a lot in terms of just killing their motion in the offensive zone.” While the Hurricanes put a lot of pucks on net, Seattle battled back with a physical game to set the tone in the first period. The Kraken delivered 12 hits to Carolina’s four through 20 minutes, and that disparity jumped to 22-4 more than halfway through the second period before settling at a total of 31-13. It wasn’t until 3:22 into the second period that Seattle managed to turn that physicality into productive offense, when the puck ricocheted off Adam Larsson’s skate behind four Hurricanes skaters into the neutral zone, where Kaapo Kakko picked it up and turned the other way for a 2-on-1 with Berkly Catton. The 25-year-old Finn looked to pass it, but ultimately called his own number before slipping it past Carolina goaltender Frederik Andersen to give the Kraken a 1-0 lead. “That was a lot of hits (in the first period). I mean, that’s what we wanted to do,” Kakko said. “That was kind of the start.” Seattle appeared to double its lead at 8:00 to cap off a power-play opportunity that seemed to be wasting away, with Kakko finding Jaden Schwartz cutting to the back door for an easy tap-in, but the Hurricanes successfully challenged for offsides leading up to the goal. Those type of reversals can change the scope of a game, but it didn’t impact this one for too long. Just 48 seconds later, Ben Meyers finished off a centering pass from Freddy Gaudreau, poking in a rebound after his initial shot went off the post. To round out the entire effort from the fourth line, Jacob Melanson won the puck along the boards in the defensive zone and dished to Larsson, who sent Meyers and Gaudreau out on the rush. “Just a really consistent competitor,” Meyers said of Melanson. “I think that’s the big thing, is that we all know what he’s gonna bring night in and night out. It’s nice to have that physical edge. It brings a lot to our team.” The Kraken carried their two-goal lead until the final 90 seconds of the second period, when Vince Dunn couldn’t get his stick on a puck drifting into the right circle, and Nikolaj Ehlers cut into the slot and beat Daccord glove side at 18:30\. Andrei Svechnikov threatened to tie it 32 seconds later, but Daccord managed to stay on top of it to keep Seattle ahead through 40 minutes. While the margin for error got smaller entering the final frame, nothing else changed about the Kraken planned to approach the third period protecting the lead. After allowing 27 shots through the first two periods, Seattle hunkered down and gave up only six in the third before the Hurricanes pulled Andersen for an extra attacker. “It didn’t change at all,” Lambert said. “I thought we defended well in the third period. … I thought we did a pretty good job of keeping them to the outside.” In addition to pulling the goalie, Carolina went on the power play at 18:31 when Eeli Tolvanen was called for holding. Facing a 6-on-4 against *this* Hurricanes team to avoid overtime was a tall task for Daccord, but one he proved to be up for all night. Carolina put three shots on goal, but Daccord stopped them all as Seattle held on for the win. “Just trying to get air in my lungs,” Daccord said about the final 1:29\. “It’s tough, but the guys did such a good job, honestly. “The hardest thing with 6-on-4 is now that when they have two extra guys is it’s really hard to see the puck because they basically just take an extra player and put him right in front of me. So I basically can’t see anything, so I needed a lot of help from the guys, and they were outstanding tonight.” After limping out of the Olympic break with two big losses to Dallas and St. Louis, the Kraken have evened up the count with a lopsided win against Vancouver and a tight win against a high-end Carolina team. By the end of the night, they moved up to third in the Pacific Division. With four more games left in the homestand, Seattle will look to keep acing each game plan in an attempt to hang on to that coveted spot. “The first two games back from the break, we didn’t play very well,” Lambert said. “I thought we didn’t have our legs, and certainly not our execution. … League wide, I think you’re seeing better execution out of every team, and the games are getting better, so I think we’re in line with that. “Obviously tonight, we knew our opponent. We knew how we had to beat them. We did what we had to do.”