Daccord made 35 saves, Eeli Tolvanen had an objective and a help, and Will Borgen and Yanni Gourde scored in the Seattle Kraken's 3-0 win against the Vegas Brilliant Knights in the 2024 Find NHL Winter Exemplary at T-Portable Park on Monday.
It's the main shutout in the 15-game history of the Colder time of year Exemplary.
“Today is only an exceptional day for everyone,” Daccord said. “For our group, for the city, for hockey, today was a mind blowing day and just so thankful to be a piece of it. … It was something I will always remember and presumably one of the coolest days of my life.”
It's the fifth shutout in NHL open air game history that traverses 39 games and first since Dec. 16, 2017, when the Ottawa Congresspersons won 3-0 against the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL100 Exemplary at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa.
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VGK@SEA: Daccord procures Winter Exemplary MVP, closes out Brilliant Knights
Daccord's perfecto occurred before 47,313 individuals stuffed into the home ballpark of Significant Association Baseball's Seattle Sailors, all praising and exhibiting the ascent of hockey in their market in a party-like environment on a day made for outside hockey.
Incompletely cloudy, no downpour, the retractable rooftop open, 46.1 degrees Fahrenheit at puck drop.
“You truly realize this city is a hockey town now,” Gourde said. “It's astonishing.”
The Kraken (15-14-9) have lighted the market by dominating five matches in succession to improve to 7-0-2 in their beyond nine games, establishing a group standard for most sequential games with a point. They are more than .500 interestingly this season.
Daccord, who moved into the No. 1 job after Philipp Grubauer supported a lower-body injury Dec. 10, has won four straight beginnings and is 6-0-2 with two shutouts in eight beginnings since Dec. 12, laying out a group record for longest point streak by a goalie (Martin Jones, seven games, Jan. 1-14, 2023).
He passed on the ice to fans in the sold-out swarm reciting, “Joey, Joey, Joey.”
“It's genuinely the coolest thing on the planet to have that,” Daccord said. “I figure Yanni and I might both express we at any point have the best fans on the planet and it was such a lot of tomfoolery hearing that.”
Logan Thompson made 24 puts something aside for the Brilliant Knights (22-11-5), who have lost five of their beyond six games, all in guideline.
“Recently with the family and stuff, clearly, that was really great, however you'll continuously recall that game as a failure,” Vegas forward Jonathan Marchessault said. “In this way, it's truly disheartening for our gathering.”
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VGK@SEA: Tolvanen tips in a shot to score first objective of the Colder time of year Exemplary
The Kraken hit right on time with Tolvanen creating a 1-0 lead at 4:50 of the primary time frame, scoring with a netfront stick diversion of Vince Dunn's shot from the point.
“Didn't need to pursue the game,” Seattle mentor Dave Hakstol said. “That is a decent spot to begin.”
Tolvanen played a part in Borgen's objective that gave Seattle a 2-0 lead at 2:19 of the subsequent period.
His shot from the fact was avoided in front by Tye Kartye. Thompson made the save, however the bounce back came to the highest point of the right circle, where Borgen strolled into a slap shot that hit off the goalie's blocker and went in.
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VGK@SEA: Borgen covers a bounce back from the circle to give Kraken a 2-0 lead
“I thought we'd be better, frankly with you,” Vegas mentor Bruce Cassidy said. “At the point when we sort of got rolling, it was 2-0. We simply didn't have the direness required right off the bat. When we got to it, we're pursuing it, which has happened to us of late.”
The Brilliant Knights felt they were beginning to push late in the second, yet it didn't persist.
Gourde gave Seattle a 3-0 lead at 2:10 of the third. He took the puck from Paul Cotter, lost it, yet remained with the play to thump it into the net after it got free in the blue paint off Thompson's right cushion.
“If you have any desire to return and dominate the hockey match in the third period, you can't surrender an objective like that early or by any stretch of the imagination presumably, to legit with you,” Cassidy said. “In that particular situation, in the event that we can win the initial six or eight minutes and produce some offense, get an objective, you're in the game. However at that point it gets intense.”
Daccord made 10 recoveries in every one of the initial two time frames prior to completing the game with 15 in the third, including a feature reel glove save money on Jack Eichel with 2:13 leftover that he said could go down as the particular second that he will recall the most.
“I really felt like I was out on my mate's terrace arena, it was so cool,” Daccord said. “It was only a truly extraordinary [day] for our entire gathering and our entire city.”
NOTES: It was the main open air game for the Kraken and second for the Brilliant Knights, who additionally played in the 2021 NHL Outside at Lake Tahoe on Feb. 21, 2021. … Tolvanen's objective was his 26th in 86 games with the Kraken since making his presentation with the group on Jan. 1, 2023. … Borgen's objective was his first of the time and first in a normal season game since April 3, 2023. He scored one objective in the Stanley Cup End of the season games last season. … The Kraken are the third group with a shutout dominate in its outside match debut, joining the Anaheim Ducks (3-0 against the Los Angeles Lords in the 2014 Arena Series at Dodger Arena) and Calgary Blazes (4-0 in the 2011 Legacy Exemplary against the Montreal Canadiens at McMahon Arena).
