Frederick Gaudreau scored twice during a four-goal middle frame to lead the Seattle Kraken to a 6-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena on Friday.
Viktor Arvidsson opened the scoring for the Red Wings at 9:19 of the first period, converting on a power-play wrist shot with assists from Lucas Raymond and Moritz Seider. Seattle evened the score at 14:52 when Berkly Catton sent a backhand shot past the goaltender off feeds from Kaapo Kakko and Josh Mahura. William Wallinder restored the Detroit lead at 4:00 of the second period, scoring his first goal of the season with a snap shot assisted by Alex DeBrincat and Michael Brandsegg-Nygård.
Seattle answered with four straight goals to take control of the contest. Gaudreau leveled the game 2-2 at 4:39 on a wrist shot set up by Ryan Winterton and Ben Meyers. Mackie Samoskevich netted the go-ahead goal at 6:59 off a pass from Jared McCann, and Gaudreau struck again at 7:44 on feeds from Winterton and Meyers to make it 4-2. Meyers widened the gap to 5-2 at 14:05 with his first goal of the season, assisted by Catton and Brandon Montour.
Vince Dunn scored on a third-period power play at 11:53 with a snap shot set up by Chandler Stephenson and Montour to push the lead to four. Brandsegg-Nygård registered his first goal of the season for Detroit at 15:27 on an unassisted wrist shot. Philipp Grubauer earned the win in net for the Kraken, stopping 37 of 40 shots. Detroit starter John Gibson stopped 10 of 15 shots in the loss before Daniil Tarasov stopped eight of nine shots in relief. Each team converted one of three opportunities on the power play.
Meyers collected three points with a goal and two assists, and Gaudreau recorded his second multi-goal game of the season. The victory moved Seattle to a 3-2-0 record on the season, while Detroit dropped to 1-3-0. Seattle leads the regular-season series between the clubs 1-0.
The two teams will meet again in their next game when the Kraken host the Red Wings on Tuesday, October 20.
