{"id":397346,"date":"2026-01-07T11:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397346\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:07:09","slug":"krakens-berkly-catton-scores-first-2-goals-after-27-game-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397346\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken’s Berkly Catton scores first 2 goals after 27-game drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE — It took 28 games for Berkly Catton<\/a> to score his first career NHL goal.<\/p>\n

His second took just over 28 minutes of game time.<\/p>\n

Catton, the Kraken<\/a>‘s first-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft, came away with a pair of goals in Seattle’s 7-4 win<\/a> over the Boston Bruins<\/a> on Tuesday night, breaking a lengthy scoring drought to open his career.<\/p>\n

“Lot of weight off the shoulders for sure,” the 19-year-old Catton said. “I’ve dreamed of that for a long time, so that was awesome.”<\/p>\n

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Catton’s first came in a bit of odd fashion on a three-on-two at 2:48 in the second period. He took a pass from Jared McCann<\/a> and ripped a one-timer from a tough angle that found its way through Jeremy Swayman<\/a>‘s pads.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t even know it went in, to be honest,” Catton said. “I thought it hit the post.”<\/p>\n

When the goal horn sounded, Catton raised his arms with a very obvious sigh of relief, as McCann mobbed him on the side boards.<\/p>\n

“It’s the best; I said, ‘Finally.’ ” said McCann, an 11-year veteran. “He’s been working really hard, and we were due.”<\/p>\n

The Kraken took Catton, a star for the WHL’s Spokane Chiefs, with the eighth overall pick in the ’24 draft. He logged his first NHL point on an assist in his debut on Oct. 20 — and added two more assists in his next four games — but that first goal had eluded him.<\/p>\n

“Obviously I thought about it all the time, but I wouldn’t say it was really impacting me too much,” Catton said. “But it’s just a relief more than anything to get it out of the way.”<\/p>\n

And with it out of the way, Catton quickly moved onto his second, scoring 14 minutes into the third, on a nifty backhand over Swayman’s glove off a feed from Freddy Gaudreau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I thought it was awesome,” Kraken coach Lane Lambert said. “I’ve said a few times prior to now that once he scores, I think he’ll score a few.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE — It took 28 games for Berkly Catton to score his first career NHL goal. His second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-397346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}