{"id":526268,"date":"2026-03-16T05:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/526268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T05:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:07:08","slug":"kraken-6-2-panthers-mar-15-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/526268\/","title":{"rendered":"Kraken 6-2 Panthers (Mar 15, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5048894\/bobby-mcmann\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bobby McMann<\/a> had a power-play goal and added an assist in his second game for Seattle, and the Kraken beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/team\/_\/name\/fla\/florida-panthers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> 6-2 on Sunday night to move into the second wild-card spot in the West.<\/p>\n<p>              McMann had two goals and an assist in his Kraken debut Saturday night in a 5-2 victory in Vancouver. He went from Toronto to Seattle at the trade deadline, but was delayed because of a visa issue that was resolved Friday.<\/p>\n<p>              Against Florida, McMann scored his 22nd goal of the season and assisted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/2562625\/jamie-oleksiak\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamie Oleksiak<\/a>&#8216;s goal. Oleksiak also had two assists.<\/p>\n<p>              Two-time defending champion Florida is in danger of becoming the first Cup-winning team to miss the playoffs the following season since Los Angeles in 2014-15. The Panthers are 11 points out of the final wild card in the East.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4755729\/ben-meyers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Meyers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/5216877\/berkly-catton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkly Catton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4894928\/ryan-winterton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Winterton<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4565223\/kaapo-kakko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kaapo Kakko<\/a> also scored for Seattle, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3942073\/joey-daccord\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Daccord<\/a> stopped 23 shots. The Kraken have not made the playoffs since the 2022-23 season. <\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/3069613\/vinnie-hinostroza\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vinnie Hinostroza<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4233877\/eetu-luostarinen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eetu Luostarinen<\/a> scored for Florida. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/player\/_\/id\/4587994\/daniil-tarasov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniil Tarasov<\/a> stopped 19 shots.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Panthers: At Vancouver on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Kraken: Host Tampa Bay on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NHL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE &#8212; \u2014 Bobby McMann had a power-play goal and added an assist in his second game for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-526268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}