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# Kraken’s Second Period Burst Leads to 7-4 Win Against Bruins as Kartye Returns to Ice
- URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seattle-kraken-second-period-burst-boston-bruins/
- Published: 2026-01-07T07:19:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T06:16:28.000Z
- Author: Corbin Smith
- Tags: News, Kraken, Boston Bruins, Tye Kartye, Lane Lambert, Berkly Catton, Jared McCann, Ben Meyers, Jacob Melanson, Ryan Winterton, Eeli Tolvanen, Jordan Eberle, Joey Daccord, Kaapo Kakko, Frederick Gaudreau

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![  Seattle Kraken right wing Kaapo Kakko (84) and goaltender Joey Daccord (35) celebrate after Kakko scored a goal against the Boston Bruins during the third period 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_27949255-format-original-2.jpg)

Seattle Kraken right wing Kaapo Kakko (84) and goaltender Joey Daccord (35) celebrate after Kakko scored a goal against the Boston Bruins during the third period at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Steven Bisig-Imagn Images \[/caption\]

SEATTLE, Wash. - Tye Kartye wasn’t even supposed to be on the ice at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday.

The Seattle Kraken forward sat in the press box for four straight games, watching his team roll to three straight wins entering Tuesday’s game against the Boston Bruins, but an illness for forward Eeli Tolvanen meant the 24-year-old winger would slide back into action.

Kraken coach Lane Lambert broke up the highly productive fourth line of Ryan Winterton, Ben Meyers and Jacob Melanson – which outscored opponents 3-1 and outshot them 26-16 at 5-on-5 over the previous four games, – moving Winterton up to Tolvanen’s spot on the second line and putting Kartye in his normal fourth-line wing slot.

“The hard decision came a few weeks ago,” Lambert said. “I thought \[Kartye\[ played really well in Anaheim \[on December 22\]. I thought he played well in LA (on Dec. 23). … He came out of the lineup. It wasn’t like he was playing poorly, and him, Meyers and Melanson were playing well in those games, too.

“So put that line back together. I just thought Winterton was a better fit to go up there with Stephenson and playing sort of a top-six role that plays against the (David) Pastrnak line.”

The Kartye-Meyers-Melanson line was decent, putting action into the opposing end more often than their own. Given how well Winterton was clicking in that spot, it was a risky move, but one that paid off big time with the game tied 2-2 late in the second period.

Following up a shot from Melanson, Kartye applied the forecheck Bruins defenseman Mason Lohrei behind Swayman’s net. Lohrei ultimately settled the puck along the end boards, but Kartye poked it free, took possession and sent out a perfect pass for Ben Meyers, who sent a one-timer past Swayman to make it 3-2 at 18:23 of the second. Just 1:36 after the go-ahead goal, Jared McCann beat the buzzer on the power-play, extending the lead to 4-2 on a one-timer with 0.5 seconds left before the second intermission. The Kraken would build the lead up to 6-2 in the third before ultimately coming away with a 7-4 win.

For Seattle, the win extended its point streak to nine games (8-0-1), moving from the depths of the NHL to just one point out of first place in the Pacific Division.For Kartye, his impactful assist coming off of four straight healthy scratches was a much-needed refresh.

“Just kind of get back into it as fast as you can,” Kartye said. “Obviously, we’ve been playing well, so just trying not to slack behind, and keep the energy up and keep going.”

However, the biggest burden lifted on Tuesday belonged to Berkly Catton. In his 28th career game, the 19-year-old forward finally scored his first NHL goal nudge Seattle ahead 2-. Then in just under 32 minutes of game time later, he scored his second to make it 6-2.

It was the longest stretch without a goal in his life, at any level, but it’s finally over.

“I thought about it all the time,” Catton said. “But I wouldn’t say it was really impacting me too much, but it’s just a relief, I think, more than anything, just to kind of get it out of the way.”

After Jordan Eberle opened the scoring, drawing a trip on Bruins goalie Jeremy Swayman to turn a regular power-play into a 5-on-3 before beating him on the left side just 10 seconds later at 8:50 of the first period, Boston’s star winger David Pastrnak tied things up by firing a shot over Joey Daccord taking a stretch pass off the end boards at 12:47\. With 2:48 gone in the second period, Catton pulled the Kraken back ahead. Picking up a loose puck in the neutral zone, the 2024 eighth overall pick skated into Boston’s end, dishing the puck back to McCann before setting up outside the right circle, where McCann fed it back to him.

Catton’s shot trickled through Swayman’s legs to make it 2-1.

“It’s the best,” McCann said, who was visibly excited for his younger linemate after the puck crossed the line. “I said, ‘Finally.’ He’s been working really hard. We were due. It was just, keep plugging away. I’m, you know, really happy for him.”

Pastrnak tied it again at 6:28 of the second, finishing off a cross-crease pass from Charlie McAvoy, before Seattle pulled back ahead with their two-goal surge late in the second. Kaapo Kakko added some insurance at 10:21 of the third period, finishing off a 2-on-1 with Freddy Gaudreau for just his third goal of the season to make it 5-2\. Catton pushed it to 6-2 on the power play at 14:20, taking a pass from Gaudreau in front and beating Swayman with his backhand.

The Bruins made a push back, as Lohrei cut it to 6-3 just 30 seconds after Catton’s second goal, and Viktor Arvidsson cashed in with a power-play goal at 17:38 to give Boston an opportunity to try and tie things up with Swayman pulled for an extra attacker. Both McCann and Gaudreau blocked shots on the 6-on-5, holding off the threat of the Bruins’ top playmakers in time for Kakko to score his second of the night with an empty-netter at 19:48 for the 7-4 final.

“You got to keep an eye on, obviously, (Morgan) Geekie, he’s got a bomb,” McCann said. “And same with Pastrnak. But they do such a good job of deception, finding the seams, and I felt like we did a pretty good job of that tonight.”

Despite facing a Bruins team with two days of rest while on the second night of a back-to-back, the Kraken keep rolling.

“Pucks are going in for us. We had some opportunities in those games when we were low-scoring where we maybe couldn’t quite find the back of the net, but things are going in right now, Lambert said. “I like the way our team, you know, these back-to-backs, we don’t use anything as an excuse. I thought we battled. I thought we worked.”