Kraken vs. Red Wings: Bobby McMann Wins the Shootout After Seattle Blows a Three-Goal Third-Period Lead

Through two periods, the Seattle Kraken had a 3-0 lead and Philipp Grubauer had a shutout going. By the end of regulation, they had neither. Alex DeBrincat tied it on a power play with 17 seconds left in the third, and Seattle needed four rounds of a shootout to keep the night from becoming a full-blown collapse.

Bobby McMann scored in the fourth round, Grubauer stopped Dylan Larkin's wrist shot to end it, and the Kraken beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 in a shootout on Tuesday night at Climate Pledge Arena. Freddy Gaudreau also converted in the tiebreaker, which was just enough to cover for a third period Seattle will want to forget.

Forty Minutes of Cruise Control

Seattle owned the first two periods. Chandler Stephenson dropped the puck for Mackie Samoskevich just inside the blue line, and Samoskevich swung into the top of the slot and beat Daniil Tarasov over the blocker at 6:45 of the first.

"We already know he's a great passer, great playmaker," Samoskevich said of Stephenson. "He just kind of set it up for me there, picked the guy, and I just walked right into it."

Early in the second, Detroit took overlapping too-many-men and delay-of-game penalties, giving Seattle a two-man advantage. The Kraken scored right after the first one expired. Michael Rasmussen's backhand pass from the left corner missed Keegan Kolesar and found Ryker Evans instead, and the defenseman waited out Tarasov and squeezed a wrist shot under his right arm at 3:22.

Brandon Montour made it 3-0 at 16:01, one-timing a wobbling puck over Tarasov's blocker from the top of the left circle for his first goal of the season. Montour had missed Seattle's previous game with a lower-body injury and came back to play a staggering 30:44. Through two periods, Detroit had managed 11 shots.

Then the Wheels Came Off

Detroit coach Todd McLellan said his team talked between periods about how frustrated it had gotten, and it showed immediately. At 6:25 of the third, Viktor Arvidsson came in on the rush, gathered an Emmitt Finnie feed high in the right circle and, drifting toward the middle, lifted it over Grubauer's right pad.

Moments later, Evans went off for interfering with Arvidsson, and Detroit barely needed the power play. Lucas Raymond fired from a tough angle below the left circle, got his own rebound and stuffed it inside the near post for his first goal of the season. Two goals, 59 seconds apart, and suddenly it was 3-2.

Seattle kept handing Detroit chances. Ryan Winterton went off for slashing at 11:43, and Stephenson was called for roughing Arvidsson at 18:35. With Tarasov pulled for an extra attacker on the power play, Detroit worked a tic-tac-toe play that ended with Raymond finding DeBrincat at the left post. DeBrincat did not miss.

"A lot of guys would have just shot that," McLellan said. "But (Lucas Raymond) saw 'Cat' off to the side, and 'Cat' doesn't miss many of those."

Overtime solved nothing. In the shootout, Tarasov stopped Matty Beniers and Berkly Catton, Grubauer stopped Raymond and DeBrincat, and then the third round flipped into a trading session: Gaudreau scored, Arvidsson answered. McMann beat Tarasov in the fourth round, and Grubauer's stop on Larkin ended it.

Stars of the Collapse and the Comeback

DeBrincat finished with a goal and an assist in 23:49. That goal was a milestone, too: per NHL.com, he reached 300 career goals in 705 games, the fourth-fastest among active American players behind Auston Matthews, Kyle Connor and Jake Guentzel. Raymond also had a goal and an assist, and Larkin set up both power-play goals.

"Obviously, it feels good (to get my first goal of the season)," Raymond said.

For Seattle, Montour's 30:44 is the number that jumps off the page, and Evans had a goal and three blocked shots in 22:34. Grubauer stopped 21 of 24 shots through regulation and overtime, then three of four in the shootout. Tarasov made 24 saves on 27 shots for Detroit.

Montour also gave a shoutout to the Kraken's shootout prep. "I like that we put a lot of focus on shootouts this year with (Colin Zulianello), goalie coach," he said. "Guys have really keyed in and (been) working on it."

Turning Point: The Penalty Box Door

Seattle coach Lane Lambert put the third period on the penalties, and the box score agrees with him. Detroit drew three power plays in the third and scored on two of them, including the one that tied the game with 17 seconds left.

"We had two or three chances to make it 4-0," Lambert said. He added that the Kraken "ran into a little bit of penalty trouble, and it turned a little on a dime."

Stats That Matter

• 13: Detroit's shots in the third period, after just 11 through the first two.
• 2-for-4: Detroit's power play, with both goals in the third.
• 30:44: Montour's ice time in his return.
• 2-for-4 vs. 1-for-4: Seattle and Detroit in the shootout.
• 5-0-1: Seattle's record this season when scoring first, per NHL.com.

What It Means

Seattle improves to 6-3-1 with 13 points, has won four of its past six, and opened a four-game homestand after going 3-1-1 on a 10-day East Coast trip that ended with an 8-3 loss in Florida. Utah visits Thursday.

Detroit is 3-3-3 with nine points and has a point in five straight games (2-0-3), though at 0-0-2 on the road it is still hunting its first road win. McLellan liked the response more than the start. "We weren't connected, we were upset, for lack of a better term, with our play," he said. "We have a pretty resilient group." The Red Wings head to Vancouver on Thursday.

Two Points Are Two Points

Seattle's night was the hockey version of acing the first two sections of a test, panicking on the last page and still passing on the bonus question. Nobody in that room will brag about the third period.

But the Kraken did the work in the shootout, McMann delivered when it mattered, and Grubauer slammed the door. The standings do not ask how it looked.

Stats from the official box score via ESPN. Game details from the Associated Press and NHL.com; postgame quotes as reported by NHL.com.