Kraken begin the year in the win column.
The Seattle Kraken began 2026 the way they ended 2025- with a home victory. This time the Nashville Predators were the victim. Actually, the Kraken lost their final 2025 game to Vancouver in overtime, but chalked up five wins prior to that game. Jamie Oleksiak and Matty Beniers scored goals ten seconds apart (the second fastest two goals in Kraken history) in the first period after Beniers’ earlier goal had given Seattle a 1-0 lead. Jared McCann added an empty-netter in the final three minutes to lead Seattle to a 4-1 win over the Predators last night at Climate Pledge Arena. Seattle improves its record to 17-14-7 (Kraken fans would have taken that record at the start of the season as the team heads into a new year) and are remarkably back in a playoff spot after a 1-9-1 skein in late November and early December. Since then, the Kraken have rattled off a 5-0-1 mark. The Predators are 18-18-1, three points behind Seattle in the Conference logjam. Philipp Grubauer, who’ll represent...