Penguins open road trip with a victory at Kraken

Connor Dewar scored twice as the Pittsburgh Penguins opened a four-game trip with a 6-3 victory in Seattle on Monday.

Parker Wotherspoon, Brett Kulak, Justin Brazeau and Rickard Rakell also scored and Anthony Mantha, Sidney Crosby and Blake Lizotte each had two assists for the Penguins, who had lost four of their previous five games. Goaltender Stuart Skinner made 20 saves.

Ben Meyers had a goal and an assist and Ryan Winterton had two helpers for the Kraken, who lost their fourth in a row. Ryan Lindgren and Eeli Tolvanen also tallied, as Joey Daccord stopped 26 of 31 shots.

Tolvanen scored on a slap shot from the right faceoff dot with the man advantage at 7:47 of the third to pull Seattle within 4-3, but the Kraken were unable to get the equalizer.

Rakell banked a shot off Daccord's pads from just beneath the goal line at 16:48 and Deward added an empty-netter at 19:30.

The Penguins took a 2-0 lead in the opening eight minutes. Wotherspoon scored at 5:44 on a slap shot from the left point past a screened Daccord and Dewar converted a short-handed breakaway at 7:50.

Meyers made it 2-1 at 16:12 on a wrist shot from below the right faceoff dot.

The Kraken tied it at 13:55 of the second as Winterton pounced on a rebound and fed a wide-open Lindgren in the slot and he shoveled the puck into the net

The Penguins regained the lead less than a minute later, at 14:55, as Kulak's soft wrist shot from just inside the blue line made it past Daccord.

Pittsburgh restored its two-goal advantage at 2:21 of the third as Mantha left a drop pass for Brazeau. He sent a wrist shot from the top of the left faceoff circle past a screened Daccord.

Pittsburgh will continue their road trip against Calgary on Wednesday, as well as the Kraken who will stay home to face the Islanders.

--Field Level Media