Injury-plagued Kraken can't overcome early deficit in loss to Capitals

Kate Shefte, The Seattle Times on Oct 21, 2025

Published in Hockey

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A Kraken team badly depleted by injuries trailed by a single goal after Tuesday’s first period at the Washington Capitals, which was perfectly fine. No sweat.

Just 1:33 into the second period, the Capitals had extended the lead to three goals, and that was a real problem. Seattle winger Jaden Schwartz ended Washington goaltender Logan Thompson’s shutout bid during the third period, but a Capitals empty-netter sealed a 4-1 victory for the home team.

The Kraken (3-2-2) lost both ends of a back-to-back after a franchise-best five-game point streak to start the season. There’s one game left on a six-game road trip, Thursday at the Winnipeg Jets.

The Kraken haven’t won the second game of a back-to-back in 15 tries, which includes the entirety of last season. The last time the Kraken won the second game was March 5, 2024, two head coaches ago, in the last throes of their most recent playoff push.

The third member of Seattle’s goaltending trio, free-agent signing Matt Murray, got his first Kraken start and made 30 saves.

Mason Marchment (lower body) became the latest to join the injury list Tuesday. He joined fellow his forwards Jared McCann (lower body) Freddy Gaudreau (upper body) and Kaapo Kakko (broken hand), along with defensemen Brandon Montour (personal leave) and Ryker Evans (upper body).

Kakko, Evans, Gaudreau and Montour are all on injured reserve, per PuckPedia. The Kraken recalled Ben Meyers on Tuesday to replace Marchment, who was described as day-to-day. Meyers had the lone assist on Schwartz’s goal.

Charlie Lindgren, brother of Kraken defenseman Ryan Lindgren, was Washington’s (5-2) backup goaltender on Tuesday. Thompson made 18 stops.

Nic Dowd and Ryan Leonard scored Washington’s first two goals. Jakob Chychrun made it 3-0 on the power play and Tom Wilson added the empty-netter. In what is potentially his last season, all-time leading NHL goal scorer Alex Ovechkin chipped in one power-play assist on Tuesday.