Item 1 of 43 Dec 22, 2025; Anaheim, California, USA; General view of the arena before the game between the Anaheim Ducks and the Seattle Kraken at Honda Center. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
[1\/43]Dec 22, 2025; Anaheim, California, USA; General view of the arena before the game between the Anaheim Ducks and the Seattle Kraken at Honda Center. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n December 23 – Jordan Eberle tallied twice in the third period as the Seattle Kraken defeated the host Anaheim Ducks 3-1 Monday night.<\/p>\n Frederick Gaudreau also scored for Seattle, which won consecutive games for the first time in a month, and Kaapo Kakko had two assists. Goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 40 saves as the Kraken won for just the third time in their past 13 games (3-9-1) and moved out of the Pacific Division cellar.<\/p>\n Mikael Granlund scored the lone goal for the division-leading Ducks, who dropped to 2-4-1 in their past seven games. Goalie Lukas Dostal stopped 18 of 20 shots.<\/p>\n The tiebreaking goal came on an odd-man rush at 10:04 of the third. Matty Beniers fed Eberle on the left wing, and Eberle put a shot over Dostal’s shoulder and into the far upper corner of the net from just inside the faceoff dot.<\/p>\n Eberle added an empty-netter at 19:24, his team-leading 12th goal of the season.<\/p>\n The Kraken opened the scoring on the power play at 4:49 of the second period. Ryker Evans’ shot from the left point deflected off a defenseman’s skate, with the puck falling to Kakko deep on the right wing. Kakko had a shot blocked before sending a pass across the top of the crease to Shane Wright. His shot was saved by a sprawling Dostal, but Gaudreau was in front of the net to chip the rebound over the prone goalie.<\/p>\n The Ducks, who outshot Seattle 17-5 in the middle period, tied it at 15:40. Jacob Trouba floated the puck toward the net from the top of the right faceoff circle, and Granlund redirected it past a screened Grubauer.<\/p>\n The Kraken outshot Anaheim 10-7 in a scoreless first period. It was the eighth straight game Seattle failed to find the net in the opening 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Ducks forward Leo Carlsson, the team’s leading scorer with 41 points (17 goals, 24 assists), missed a game for the first time this season with a lower-body injury. Granlund centered the top line in Carlsson’s absence and Jansen Harkins got back in the lineup after being a healthy scratch for the previous nine games.<\/p>\n Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn took a hard hit from Anaheim’s Ross Johnston early in the third period and didn’t return because of an apparent upper-body injury.<\/p>\n Linesperson Ryan Gibbons took a spill in front of the Kraken bench late in the first period, landing on his back, and didn’t return.<\/p>\n The Kraken announced earlier Monday that defenseman Brandon Montour would miss approximately four weeks after undergoing surgery for a broken hand sustained in a fight Dec. 16 against Colorado.<\/p>\n –Field Level Media<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n