SEATTLE KRAKEN NOTES:
LAST GAME
Arizona 3 at Seattle 7
Goals: Tolvanen, Eberle, Gourde, Larsson, Sprong, McCann, Geekie
Goalie: Jones (15/18), Grubauer (11/11)
PP: 1/3 PK: 2/3 Shots: Chicago 29 – Seattle 31
CURRENT INJURIES – (Man Games Lost: 228)
Joonas Donskoi (upper body; IR) – 79 games – no timeline for return
Andre Burakovsky (lower body) – 29 games – week-to-week
John Hayden (lower body) – 10 games – week-to-week
TRANSACTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
April 9, 2023: Recalled G Joey Daccord on an emergency basis from Coachella Valley (AHL)
UPCOMING GAMES
Tuesday, April 11: Seattle at Vegas, 7 p.m. PT
Thursday, April 13: Vegas at Seattle, 7 p.m. PT
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
• Tonight’s matchup is the final of three games the Kraken will play against the Coyotes this season and the first time the two teams are playing in Arizona this year.
• Tonight’s game against the Coyotes and tomorrow’s game against the Golden Knights is the final of eight back-to-back sets the team will play this season and the fifth of which where both games are played on the road.
• Tonight’s game is also the final of 24 games the Kraken will play against Central Division teams this season, with Seattle holding an 13-4-6 record against the Central Division this year.
• A win tonight would give the Kraken their sixth series sweep of the season. The team previously won each game it played against Buffalo, Columbus, Detroit, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
• Since Feb. 14, the Kraken have gone 61-for-69 on the penalty kill. Their 88.4 percent success rate on the penalty kill during that span was the third-best mark in the league entering play Sunday.
• With three games remaining in the regular season, nine Kraken skaters have already set or tied their career highs in goals, assists and points: Will Borgen, Vince Dunn, Morgan Geekie, Adam Larsson, Jared McCann, Jamie Oleksiak, Daniel Sprong, Brandon Tanev and Eeli Tolvanen. The next game that Oleksiak and Sprong play in will be their 73rd and 64th, respectively, of the season, both of which
will set career highs.
• Vince Dunn, who has already set a career high with 64 points (14 goals, 50 assists) this season, enters tonight’s game ranked second on the Kraken in scoring. He was ranked in the top 10 among all NHL defensemen in goals (tied ninth), assists (10th), points (10th), even-strength goals (14, second) and even-strength points (49, second) entering play Sunday.
• Vince Dunn (10 goals, 36 assists) and Jared McCann (23 goals, 23 assists) have both been playing at a point-per-game pace dating back to Dec. 29, totaling 46 points each in 46 games.
• With the Kraken’s four-goal outing in their game on March 3 against Columbus, they surpassed their goal total from all of last season in 20 fewer games. Seattle has scored 283 goals in 79 games this season compared to 213 goals in 2021-22. The team’s 283 goals this season were tied for third in the NHL entering play Sunday.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
• The Kraken earned their first playoff berth in franchise history with a 4-2 win over the Arizona Coyotes in the team’s game on April 6. Entering play Sunday, the Kraken were one of two teams (New Jersey) to earn a berth to the 2022-23 Stanley Cup Playoffs after not qualifying for the postseason in 2021-22.
• With the Kraken’s win over the Coyotes on April 6, they also set a record for wins by an expansion team (44) in its second season since the Original Six era (1967-68). The team’s 98 points this year are also a league record for an expansion team in its second season since the Original Six era (1967-68).
• With their win over the Predators on March 25, the Kraken improved their point total to 88, a 28-point improvement from last
season. Their 28-point improvement set an NHL record for the largest point improvement by and expansion team from its first
to its second season since the Original Six era (1967-68).
• The Kraken enter tonight’s game with 13 players that have scored at least 10 goals, the most in the NHL. If Jamie Oleksiak,
who has nine goals, were to score tonight, Seattle would become the first team to have 14 players score 10 or more goals in a
season since the Detroit Red Wings did so in 1995-96 according to NHL Stats.
LAST TIME OUT
• The Kraken defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 7-3 in their final meeting of the season. The win gave the Kraken their 11th series win of the season, having previously won their season series against Anaheim, Buffalo, Colorado, Columbus, Detroit, Nashville, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Jose and St. Louis.
• The game marked the seventh time this season where the Kraken have scored seven or more goals in a single game, which is tied with the Edmonton Oilers for the league lead according to NHL Stats.
• Jordan Eberle extended his goal-scoring streak to four games with his 20th goal of the season. It is the eighth time in his career that he has scored 20 or more goals in a season. Jordan Eberle is the Kraken’s fifth 20-goal scorer this season, joining Jared McCann, Matty Beniers, Daniel Sprong and Jaden Schwartz. The Kraken are the eighth franchise to feature five or more 20-goal scorers in either their first or second season according to NHL Stats.
• With an assist in the game, Eberle also set a career high for assists in a season with 43.
• Jamie Oleksiak tallied three assists in the contest, setting a single-game career high in assists and matching his single-game career high in points. The three assists brought his total for the season to 16, matching his career high that he set last year.
• Daniel Sprong matched his single-game career high with three points (one goal, two assists) against the Blackhawks. He had previously achieved this mark on two other occasions: Oct. 25, 2022 and Jan. 5, 2018.
• Adam Larsson scored his eighth goal of the season, matching his career high that he set last year.
• Jesper Froden recorded an assist, his second in as many games played. It marked the first time in his career that he recorded a point in consecutive games.
ARIZONA COYOTES NOTES:
3 HARD LAPS
• Arizona is fresh off an OT win on Saturday that kick-started the season’s final homestand. The team enters tonight 6-3-1 in its last 10 games at Mullett Arena and holds a .517 point percentage overall since the All-Star break (12-11-7)
• Reigning Third Star of the Month Clayton Keller is closing in on the Coyotes team record for points and assists in a single season. He enters tonight one point shy of Keith Tkachuk’s 86 in 1996-97 and five assists shy of Ray Whitney’s 53 in 2011-12
• If the Coyotes win out, it’d mark the fifth time the club recorded 23+ home wins in a season since relocating to Arizona
LAST GAME
Coyotes 5, Ducks 4 (OT) – April 8, 2023 – Mullett Arena
ARI Goals: Fischer (13), Crouse (24), Keller (37), Maccelli (11), Hayton (19)
ANA Goals: Henrique (20, 21), Strome (15), Jones (8)
ARI Goalie: Prosvetov (W) – 25 svs on 29 shots
ANA Goalie: Eriksson Ek (O) – 34 svs on 39 shots
PP: 1-4 PK: 3-4
Notes: ARI got back in the win column by defeating the Ducks and finished 1-1-1 against them this season…Clayton Keller scored a goal and chipped in an assist to inch closer to the Coyotes team record (since 1996-97) for most points in a season…Keller’s tally was his 30th even-strength goal of the season…The Yotes are 16-4-2 this season when Keller registers a multi-point game…Keller’s seven shots on goal pushed his season total to 214, a new career-high…Barrett Hayton tallied his second career OT goal (2/19 vs CBJ)…Matias Maccelli notched a goal and an assist to push his season scoring line to 11-37-48…Nick Schmaltz registered two assists for his career-high-tying 14th multi-pt game of the season…Juuso Valimaki reached 30 assists with a helper on Hayton’s OT winner as well as 50 career pts in the process (7-43-50)…JJ Moser registered two assists to clear 30 points on the campaign (7-24-31)…Moser set a career-high with six shots on goal…Saturday marked Moser’s fourth multi-point game of the campaign and now ranks tied for second on the Coyotes in scoring among defensemen…Moser is the third Arizona defenseman to get to 30 points this season; The 2022-23 club is the first in Coyotes team history to have at least three defensemen record 30+ points with the team. It happened 10 times in the Original Jets era, most recently in 1995-96…Lawson Crouse established a 3-game point streak with a goal…Crouse (24- 21-45) has two games to reach the 50-pt mark this season; The winger has produced six points (2-4-6) in his last six games played…Travis Boyd set a new single-season career-high for assists with 19…Christian Fischer scored the first goal of the game for the fourth time this season, the second-most amount of times he’s done that in a season during his career (5, 2017-18)…Victor Soderstrom tallied an assist to reach 10 career points (1-9-10)…ARI’s 18 third period shots mark the most the team has recorded in a third period this season…Saturday was the first day in NHL history to have 32 teams in game action on the same day
MAN GAMES LOST (Name/Roster Status/Injury Type/Games Missed/Last Game Played)
Zack Kassian…Day-to-Day…Upper-Body (10 / 3/18)
Total man games lost: 150 games
Liam O’Brien – 23 (12/17 – 2/6) – Upper-Body | 2 (2/11 – 2/13) – Upper-Body
Jakob Chychrun – 16 (10/13 – 11/17) – Upper-Body
Matias Maccelli – 16 (12/27 – 1/24) – Lower-Body
Nick Schmaltz – 15 (10/15 – 11/17) – Upper-Body | 1 (12/31) – Upper-Body | 3 (3/12 – 3/16)
Zack Kassian – 9 (11/1 – 11/21) – Lower-Body
Connor Timmins – 9 (10/15 – 11/5) – Upper-Body
Shayne Gostisbehere – 8 (1/26 – 2/18) – Upper-Body
Andrew Ladd – 6 (N/A) – Undisclosed
Laurent Dauphin – 4 (3/24 – 3/31) – Upper-Body
Josh Brown – 3 (11/23 – 11/27) – Upper-Body | 4 (2/26 – 3/3) – Upper-Body | 6 (3/16 – 3/26)
Ben McCartney – 3 (10/13 – 10/17) – Lower-Body
Juuso Valimaki – 1 (11/23) – Upper-Body
Lawson Crouse – 1 (12/1) – Illness | 4 (1/19 – 1/24) – Upper-Body
Christian Fischer – 1 (3/3) – Illness | 1 (3/12) – Lower-Body
Connor Ingram – 1 (1/8) – Illness
Patrik Nemeth – 1 (3/14) – Lower-Body
Brett Ritchie – 1 (3/22) – Upper-Body | 1 (3/26) – Illness
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
DATE TIME (AZ) OPPONENT VENUE TV RADIO
Thur, April 13 7pm vs VAN Mullett Arena Bally Sports Arizona 98.7 FM
YOTES & KRAKEN
- Tonight is the third and final ARI-SEA matchup this season. Seattle beat the Yotes both previous meetings this season at Climate Pledge on 4/3 and 4/6
- The Coyotes and Kraken play three times in a span of a week, games 78, 79 and 81 on the Yotes schedule
- The Yotes edged Seattle by a 2-1-0 clip last year in the season series, the Kraken’s inaugural campaign
- Lawson Crouse tallied and an assist on Thursday’s game and registered the lone Coyotes goal on Monday. He shares the lead with Nick Schmaltz for the most goals vs SEA among current Coyotes
- Crouse also tallied a two-goal game against the Kraken, his coming on 11/6/21 – his first career multi-goal game
- Matias Maccelli has recorded an assist in each of the last two times he’s played Seattle. Him and Crouse are the two Coyotes to record multiple points against the Kraken this season
- Laurent Dauphin picked up his first goal of the season with the Yotes on the 4/6 matchup. Prior to Thursday, his last goal with the Coyotes came on 12/10/16 during his second stint with the franchise
- Barrett Hayton scored Arizona’s other goal on Thursday
- Anchored by three fighting majors, the Coyotes have rung up 89 PIMs against the Kraken in two games. The last time the team cleared 100 against an opponent in a single season was 124 against Anaheim in 2009-10
- Coyotes franchise vs Kraken
• All-Time: 2-3-0
• Home: 1-1-0
• Road: 1-2-0
• L10: 2-3-0
• STRK: L3
SCORING NOTABLES AGAINST THE KRAKEN
Clayton Keller…0-4-4…5 career GP
Lawson Crouse…3-1-4…5 career GP
Nick Schmaltz…3-0-3…4 career GP
Connor Mackey…0-2-2…4 career GP
Matias Maccelli…0-2-2…3 career GP
Laurent Dauphin…1-0-1…2 career GP
Career Leaders
Goals (Schmaltz/Crouse, 3)… Assists (Keller, 4)…Points (Keller/Crouse, 4)
Career Leaders Among Defensemen
Goals (-)… Assists (Mackey, 2)…Points (Mackey, 2)
2022-23 COYOTES RECORD ON…
1-Day Rest: 20-22-7
2-Days Rest: 3-5-2
3+ Days Rest: 2-5-2
Back-to-Backs
Coyotes record on…
First Game of Back-to-Back: 2-6-4
Second Game of Back-to-Back: 3-7-2
When ARI and opponent is completing a back-to-back: 3-1-0
When completing a back-to-back where opponent is not: 1-6-2
When ARI is not completing a back-to-back but opponent is: 3-1-2
