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Kraken Knock Off Blues

Ryan Donato continued his hot streak of goal scoring and got the Seattle Kraken off to the start they needed against an opponent they've struggled with in their first two seasons.

 

Donato scored in his fourth straight game, Carson Soucy, Daniel Sprong and Jared McCann scored in Seattle's three-goal second period, and the Kraken beat the St. Louis Blues 5-2 on Tuesday night.

 

Seattle won consecutive games for the first time in nearly three weeks, snapped the Blues' four-game win streak and beat St. Louis for the first time in the Kraken's two seasons.

 

St. Louis looked as if fatigue finally caught up. The Blues were playing their third back-to-back in the last nine days. The Blues had swept through Western Canada with wins in Edmonton, Calgary and Monday night in Vancouver before running out of steam in Seattle.

 

Colton Parayko scored his second of the season for St. Louis at 5:59 of the third period, and Pavel Buchnevich scored with one second left on a power play at 10:54 to pull St. Louis within 4-2. Greiss made 28 saves.

 

The Blues also were without leading scorer Jordan Kyrou due to an upper-body injury, one night after recording his first career hat trick in a 5-1 win over Vancouver. Kyrou was checked into the boards by Vancouver's Kyle Burroughs with 1:31 left in the game and didn't play another shift.

 

Kyrou had been on a hot streak with nine points - six goals and three assists - in the first three game of the Blues' road trip. Kyrou began the night as St. Louis' leading scorer with 16 goals and 32 points.

 

The Blues close out the road trip at Vegas on Thursday.

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