SECOND PERIOD
The Oilers were a lot more free-flowing with their chances in the middle frame, but there were still some defensive deficiencies to work out before the regular season after their lack of composure in their own zone contributed to the Kraken building their lead to 2-0 after two periods.
Janmark had a partial breakaway early in the frame off a two-line pass from Atro Leppanën, where Daccord parried aside his quick slapshot from the top of the circle with a Kraken defender coming across to cut him off from making a move towards goal.
The Swedish forward earned the Oilers their first power play midway through the frame, being wrestled to the ice beside the Seattle net by St. Albert product Josh Mahura to send out Edmonton’s top power-play unit on Wednesday of Bouchard, McDavid, Draisaitl, Frederic and Tomasek that wasn’t converted.
Seattle then made it 2-0 on only their eighth shot of the opening 35 minutes of the contest with under five minutes left in second period.
Bouchard chopped a puck up the wall in the defensive zone that wound up being swatted in between the circles by Frederic, resulting in Ben Meyers saucing a pass in front to Morrison that he slid five-hole on Skinner.
The tally was Morrison’s second point of the contest after assisting Firkus’ opening goal in the first period.
“I think I didn’t get a lot of open looks and a lot of open shots,” Skinner said. “You don’t get a lot of shots, and then you get a chance. That’s a quick little in-tight breakaway. You get scored on like that and it doesn’t feel really good for a goalie, but at the same time, that’s going to happen. Especially for our team, we’re really good defensively, and we take a lot of opportunities offensively. I’ve played that game many times.”