Kraken fall to Canadiens in OT for 1st loss of season

Kate Shefte, The Seattle Times on Oct 14, 2025

Published in Hockey

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Cole Caufield’s second goal of Tuesday’s game won it for the Montreal Canadiens in overtime, 5-4, and the Kraken’s modest win streak to start the 2025-26 season ended on the road. Seattle collected one standing point after erasing three one-goal Montreal leads.

The Kraken fell to 2-0-1 after winning their first two games for the first time in the franchise’s brief history. They beat the Vegas Golden Knights in overtime on Saturday night.

The Kraken took their first lead, at 4-3, with 12:04 left in the game on Jared McCann’s third goal in three games. McCann accidentally blocked teammate Brandon Montour’s point shot, located the puck in his skates, spun and fired.

Montreal’s Ivan Demidov tied the score with 2:41 left, shortly after a Mason Marchment holding penalty expired. In overtime Kraken goaltender Joey Daccord appeared to be hugging the goalpost, but Caufield found just enough space near the goalie’s elbow and crammed a shot through the gap.

Seattle survived a messy first period with minimal damage. The Kraken registered four giveaways in the first seven minutes and gave up Alex Newhook’s goal on a defensive breakdown during that time.

Seattle defenseman Jost Mahura had a particularly eventful period. He slid hard into the boards shoulder-first, then slipped and almost allowed his man to walk in alone, but thankfully his man also slipped on what appeared to be some bad ice. There was some confusion about whether a line change was legal, and he hopped back onto the ice in place of Adam Larsson, then immediately took a penalty. Montreal didn’t score on the ensuing power play.

It took almost a full 20 minutes for the Kraken to cancel out Newhook’s strike. On the power play, veteran winger Jaden Schwartz finished off a quick passing play from Vince Dunn by way of Shane Wright.

Caufield restored the advantage, 2-1, when Seattle center Chandler Stephenson couldn’t get the puck around the boards and turned it over. Stephenson chucked it backward, straight to Caufield, and a moment later it was behind Daccord.

Kraken rookie Jani Nyman was the one who tied it up this time. Seattle’s Tye Kartye took the puck around the net and whipped it toward the goalmouth. He had Nyman and Freddy Gaudreau to bank it in off, and Nyman — the bigger target — was the one to redirect the puck into the net. Nyman was credited with his first goal of the season.

The 21-year-old Finn played in the top six forwards late last season and in early training camp, but started the season on the fourth line with Kartye and Gaudreau.

Kirby Dach gave Montreal another lead 1:12 into the third period, then three and a half minutes later, Kraken stay-at-home defenseman Jamie Oleksiak’s long shot through traffic beat Montreal goalie Sam Montembeault. McCann earned the primary assist and Mahura, the secondary.

Montembeault made 18 saves. Daccord made his third straight start and stopped 17 shots.