SEATTLE KRAKEN NOTES:
LAST GAME
Seattle 5 at Detroit 4 (OT)
Goals: Schwartz (2), Kartye, McCann, Eberle
Goalie: Daccord (23/27)
PP: 2/5 PK: 3/6 Shots: Seattle 38 – Detroit 27
CURRENT INJURIES – (MAN GAMES LOST: 7)
Brandon Tanev (lower body) – 6 games – week-to-week
Andre Burakovsky (upper body) – 1 game – week-to-week
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Saturday, Oct. 28: Seattle at Florida, 3 p.m. PT
Monday, Oct. 30: Seattle at Tampa Bay, 4 p.m. PT
Thursday, Nov. 2: Nashville at Seattle, 7 p.m. PT
Saturday, Nov. 4: Calgary at Seattle, 7 p.m. PT
Tuesday, Nov. 7: Seattle at Arizona, 6 p.m. PT
GAME NOTES
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
- Tonight’s matchup against the Hurricanes is the second of four consecutive games the Kraken will play on the road. They will next take on the Florida Panthers (Oct. 28) and Tampa Bay Lightning (Oct. 30). The team’s current stretch is tied for the second-longest road trip and the first of three, four-game road trips the team will take this season.
- Tonight’s game will be the final time that Seattle and Carolina play this season. A Kraken win would mark the first time that they have recorded consecutive wins against the Hurricanes and would also give the team their first season-sweep against Carolina in franchise history.
- With their 5-4 victory over Detroit on Oct. 24, Seattle became the first team this season to score a game-tying goal with less than two minutes left in regulation and then go on to win in overtime. Jared McCann scored with 1:22 left in regulation and Jordan Eberle ended the game at 4:55 of overtime. Eberle’s game-winning goal was the latest goal scored in overtime by any team this season.
- Will Borgen has three assists in three career games against the Hurricanes. He recorded the first multi-point game of his career with two assists in Seattle’s last meeting with Carolina on Oct. 19.
- Yanni Gourde has a point in four of the five games he has played against the Hurricanes since joining the Kraken, scoring one goal and adding three assists.
- If Brian Dumoulin records an assist tonight, it would give him assists in three consecutive games, matching his career high that he has reached on five other occasions.
- The Kraken have recorded 52 takeaways through the team’s first seven games of the season, which ranked second in the league entering play Wednesday.
- Seattle skaters have combined for 107 blocked shots this season, which ranked 10th in the NHL entering play Wednesday.
SWEET CAROLINA
- Seattle General Manager Ron Francis spent 28 seasons with the Hurricanes franchise, 16 as a player and 12 as a part of the team’s front office.
- Francis was selected by the Hurricanes franchise – then the Hartford Whalers – with the fourth-overall pick in the 1981 NHL Draft. He played 10 seasons for the Whalers (1981-82 to 1990-91) and then returned to the organization when they relocated to Carolina, playing for the Hurricanes from 1998-99 to 2003-04.
- The Hockey Hall of Famer remains the franchise leader in every major scoring category: goals (382), assists (793), points (1,175), power- play goals (132) and game-winning goals (57). His 1,186 career games played with the team is also a franchise record.
- After retiring from playing, Francis joined Carolina’s front office in 2006-07 where held a number of roles until eventually being promoted to General Manager in 2014-15. He remained in that role until he left the organization at the conclusion of the 2017- 18 season.
CAROLINA HURRICANES NOTES:
LAST GAME
The Hurricanes suffered a 3-0 loss against the Tampa Bay Lightning at Amalie Arena on Tuesday, finishing 2-4-0 on their six-game road trip. Pyotr Kochetkov made his third consecutive start in net, stopping 20 of 23 shots faced.
INJURY REPORT
Brett Pesce, lower-body, missed two games (10/21-10/24)
Andrei Svechnikov, knee, missed seven games (10/11-10/24)
2023-24 Man-Games Lost Due to Injury: 14
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Oct. 25 Reassigned Blake Murray to Florida (ECHL)
Oct. 22 Reassigned Callahan Burke to Colorado (AHL)
UPCOMING GAMES
DATE OPPONENT TIME TV RADIO
Oct. 26 vs. Seattle 7 p.m. BSSO HRN
Oct. 27 vs. San Jose 7 p.m. BSSO HRN
Oct. 30 at Philadelphia 7 p.m. BSSO HRN
Nov. 2 at NY Rangers 7 p.m. BSSO HRN
Nov. 4 at NY Islanders 7:30 p.m. BSSO HRN
- All times are Eastern | BSSO = Bally Sports South | HRN = Hurricanes Radio Network
HURRICANES vs. KRAKEN SERIES NOTES
— The Hurricanes and Kraken are facing in the second and final meeting between the teams during the 2023-24 season.
— Carolina and Seattle are meeting for the sixth time in their regular-season histories. Carolina holds a 3-2-0 overall record, including a
2-0-0 home record.
— The Kraken lead the season series 1-0-0 in 2023-24 (Hurricanes: 0-1-0).
— Carolina suffered a 7-4 loss against Seattle at Climate Pledge Arena on 10/19. Seth Jarvis tallied a team-high three points (2g, 1a), and Stefan Noesen, Jaccob Slavin and Jordan Staal each recorded two assists. Jesper Fast and Jesperi Kotkaniemi also lit the lamp for the Hurricanes, while Antti Raanta (14/18) and Pyotr Kochetkov (15/17) split the duties in net.
— Sebastian Aho has earned four points (1g, 3a) in three career regular-season games against the Kraken.
— Michael Bunting has registered five points (1g, 4a) in four career regular-season games against Seattle.
— Brent Burns has tallied three assists in seven career regular-season games against the Kraken, and he has scored a goal against each of the other 31 NHL franchises.
— Seth Jarvis has posted five points (3g, 2a) in five career regular-season games against Seattle.
— Stefan Noesen has recorded five points (1g, 4a) in three career regular-season games against the Kraken.
— Brian Dumoulin was selected by Carolina in the second round (51st overall) of the 2009 NHL Draft, but he was traded to PIT before playing a game with the organization. He was sent to the Penguins on 6/22/12, along with Brandon Sutter and a first-round pick in the 2012 NHL Draft (Derrick Pouliot), in exchange for Jordan Staal.
— Kraken General Manager Ron Francis was drafted fourth overall by the Whalers in the 1981 NHL Draft and recorded 1,175 points (382g, 793a) in 1,186 games with Hartford/Carolina over two stints with the team from 1981-91 and 1998-04. He captained the team for 10 seasons (1985-90, 1999-04) and ranks first in franchise history in games played, goals, assists, points and power-play goals (132).
Francis also worked in the Hurricanes’ front office from 2006-18, most recently serving as General Manager and Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations in his final four seasons with the team (2014-18).
— Kraken Vice President and Assistant General Manager Ricky Olczyk served as an Assistant General Manager with the Hurricanes from 2014-18.
HOME COOKIN’
The Hurricanes are heading home for a back-to-back series against SEA (10/26) and SJS (10/27) after posting a 2-4-0 record on their six-game road trip from 10/14-10/24. Carolina is 1-0-0 at PNC Arena in 2023-24, with a 5-3 win over OTT in its season opener. The Hurricanes went 28-10-3 on home ice last season, with the league’s fourth-highest home points percentage (.720), and their .703 home points percentage under Rod Brind’Amour (2018-present: 121-46-18) trails only BOS (131-37-20: .750) and TBL (133-40-16: .746) for the league lead over that span.
GOING BACK-TO-BACK
The Hurricanes are opening their second of 14 sets of back-to-back games in 2023-24. They enter Thursday’s contest with a 1-0-0 record in the first game and a 0-1-0 record in the second game of back-to-backs this season. Carolina also played 14 sets of back-to-backs in 2022-23, posting an 8-5-1 record in the first game and a 10-2-2 record in the second game.
