{"id":539784,"date":"2026-03-16T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:56:08","slug":"kakko-has-3-points-kraken-score-6-to-cruise-past-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539784\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakko has 3 points, Kraken score 6 to cruise past Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eetu Luostarinen<\/a> and Vinnie Hinostroza<\/a> scored for the Panthers (33-30-3), who had won three in a row. Daniil Tarasov<\/a> made 19 saves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were fast … they won more battles, I think, at both ends,\u201d Luostarinen said. \u201cI think that\u2019s what stood out (the most).\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers gave Seattle a 1-0 lead at 5:28 of the first period.\u00a0Frederick Gaudreau<\/a>\u2019s snap shot from the top of the right circle got tipped by Winterton and bounced off Meyers at the top of the crease before trickling over the goal line.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt almost hit (Meyers\u2019) face,\u201d Winterton said. \u201cSo, I would have been sorry, but I knew it went off him (and wasn\u2019t my goal).\u201d<\/p>\n

Catton\u00a0extended it to 2-0 at 11:52. Kakko took a feed from Oleksiak and stickhandled down the slot. Tarasov stopped two attempts from Kakko, but Catton chipped the second rebound over the prone goalie.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Oleksiak and Kakko) made two great plays and I just shoveled it in, basically,\u201d Catton said. \u201cThat was a really great play by Kaapo, and luckily enough it just popped out in the right spot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hinostroza scored 15 seconds later off a 2-on-1 rush to cut it to 2-1. He hustled to the left post and redirected Luke Kunin<\/a>\u2019s cross-slot pass into an open net behind Daccord.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like he\u2019s flying out there,\u201d Luostarinen said of Hinostroza, who was acquired in a trade with the Minnesota Wild on March 6. \u201cHe\u2019s a really good player and it looks like he\u2019s having a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winterton made it 3-1 at 18:24, finding the loose puck at the left side of the net and sweeping it into an open net behind Tarasov. Meyers\u2019 initial shot off the rush hit the right post and caromed to Winterton in the crease.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hit me in the chest, so just right place, right time, I guess,\u201d Winterton said. \u201cI was lucky enough to bang it in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eetu Luostarinen and Vinnie Hinostroza scored for the Panthers (33-30-3), who had won three in a row. Daniil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-539784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}