> ## 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. # Kraken Settle for 3-2 Shootout Loss to Canucks - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seattle-kraken-vancouver-canucks-settle-shootout-loss/ - Published: 2025-12-30T07:06:05.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:16:37.000Z - Author: Corbin Smith - Tags: News, Kraken, Vancouver Canucks, Kevin Lankinen, Joey Daccord, Eeli Tolvanen, Vince Dunn, Jared McCann, Lane Lambert, Ryan Winterton, Ben Meyers, Jacob Melanson, Brandon Montour \[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="4293"\] ![ Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Daccord (35) stops a shot by Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson (40) during. a shoot out at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/usatsi_27903684-format-original-2.jpg) Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Daccord (35) stops a shot by Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson (40) during. a shoot out at Climate Pledge Arena. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images \[/caption\] SEATTLE, Wash. - With the game tied 2-2 entering the third period against the Vancouver Canucks at Climate Pledge Arena on Monday, the Seattle Kraken turned up the heat. Desperate to extend their win streak to five games, the Kraken rolled their lines and peppered Canucks goalie Kevin Lankinen with 16 shots while only allowing three in the final 20 minutes of regulation. The 30-year-old Finnish netminder stood on his head, and pushed the game to overtime. Once again, the Kraken controlled the majority of possession and outshot Vancouver 3-0, but once again, they couldn’t capitalize in the allotted five minutes. Usually the shootout is a coin flip, but given how Lankinen was playing, the scales seemed tipped this time around. Sure enough, the three Kraken shooters failed to score, and Liam Ohgren beat Joey Daccord to give the Canucks a 3-2 shootout win. Lankinen ended the night with 37 saves, leaving Seattle just one point in the standings after a 39-shot night. “We played a good hockey game. We had our opportunities,” Kraken coach Lane Lambert said. “Obviously, in like the last 25 minutes I think we outshot them 19-3\. We had some real good looks, some real good chances to score in regulation, for that matter. Their goaltender played well, and we keep doing that and playing that way, we’ll have success more often than not.” The Kraken maintained the threat all the way down to the last second, benefitting from a 4-on-3 power play in the final 1:40 following an Evander Kane tripping penalty. Eeli Tolvanen fired a one-timer into Lankinen with 31 seconds left in the extra frame, and Vince Dunn unleashed one with six seconds left heading into the shootout. It was a continuation from the third, where each line seemed to contribute a close chance in the back half of the period. “You got to give (Lankinen) credit, he played well,” Jared McCann said. “He made some big saves for them. We peppered (him) and we played well. We did. We had some good opportunities offensively. Hemmed them in their zone quite a bit, and we should be proud of ourselves.” Chief among those efforts was the fourth line of Ryan Winterton, Ben Meyers and Jacob Melanson. The trio outshot Vancouver 6-0 at 5-on-5, and out-chanced the Canucks 7-1, according to Natural Stat Trick. One of those chances broke through to give the Kraken a 2-1 lead with 20 seconds left in the first period. From behind the net, Daccord swung the puck up to Melanson along the left boards, and Melanson got a jump on defensemen Elias Pettersson and Tyler Myers, who got tied up together on the blue line, cruising into the Vancouver zone and dishing a cross-ice pass to Winterton, who cashed in. It marked the first NHL point for Melanson, playing in his eighth career game. “It’s not all about us getting the goals out there,” Melanson said. “It’s about us setting up the top lines to be able to have O-zone draws and bring energy for them.” Besides scoring, the fourth line started strong off the bat, as Meyers cut through the neutral zone past several defenders before firing a shot on goal at 3:31 of the first period. From the ground, Melanson tried to recover the puck but got cross-checked by Myers to give Seattle a power-play opportunity at 3:42. All game, the grouping threw their bodies around and tilted the ice for the Kraken. “They’re responsible,” Lambert said. “They’re quick. They’re physical. Obviously, a huge goal for us (from) Winterton. Melanson made a nice play on that, but they create energy for our hockey team, and they do it responsibly.” Seattle opened the scoring with a 4-on-3 power-play goal from McCann, who fired a one-timer past Lankinen at 8:50 of the first in just his second game back from a lower-body injury. McCann was an assist away from a Gordie Howe hat trick, as he took an elbow from Canucks forward Conor Garland and later challenged him to a fight. The two tied up at 15:17 of the first, both throwing punches while remaining upright before officials eventually pulled them apart. Lambert backed his player despite the risk of the situation. After all, it’s been just two weeks since Brandon Montour exited a 5-3 loss to the Colorado Avalanche with an upper-body injury following a tussle with Brent Burns and subsequently landed on injured reserve. “I think it just shows a lot about the character of Jared McCann, and Garland accepted,” Lambert said. “I thought it was hockey, and sometimes things happen. … He took care of it on his own. Sometimes you got to do that.” Vancouver tied the game 1-1 just three seconds after the fight, as the Kraken left the slot exposed for Linus Karlsson to receive a pass off the faceoff and fire it past Daccord. The Canucks tied it once again at 5:23 of the second period, with forward Elias Pettersson ripping a shot from the slot to finish off a passing sequence. Seattle wrestled back control, but ultimately couldn’t find the winner. To allow one of the few teams below them in the Pacific Division to gain ground is not an ideal outcome for the Kraken, but the energy and production on the second half of a back-to-back was encouraging as the team heads into 2026. “Obviously you want to win. That’s always the goal,” Winterton said. “But I thought there was a lot of positives we can take from tonight. … (Lankinen) was a good goalie, so some nights you just can’t beat ‘em for whatever reason, but we’ll take the positives and get out of here.”