New York Rangers vs Seattle Kraken Match Player Stats On Oct 21, 2023

Veteran goaltender Jonathan Quick won his first start with the New York Rangers, making 18 saves in a 4-1 victory against the host Seattle Kraken on Saturday night.

Artemi Panarin scored twice and Kaapo Kakko and Alexis Lafreniere also tallied for the Rangers, who opened a five-game trip. Filip Chytil had three assists and K'Andre Miller added two.

Justin Schultz scored for Seattle, which scored no more than one goal for the fifth time in six games this season to drop to 1-4-1. Goalie Philipp Grubauer stopped 23 of 27 shots.

A lighting issue in one corner of the rink forced the teams to switch ends midway through each period.

The Kraken scored first in their fourth consecutive game, as Schultz beat Quick with a slap shot from just outside the left faceoff dot at 8:41 of the first period.

New York tied it at 12:15 on Panarin's wrister from the bottom of the right faceoff circle after taking a pass from Chytil.

The Rangers took the lead with a pair of goals in the second.

Kakko gave the Rangers the lead at the 13:02 mark, just after the teams changed ends because of the lighting situation. The Rangers won a faceoff in the offensive zone and got the puck to Jacob Trouba for a slapshot from the top of the left faceoff circle. Grubauer got a piece of the shot but the puck trickled behind him and off the left post before Kakko tapped the rebound into the gaping net.

Lafreniere made it 3-1 at 17:59 following a Seattle turnover deep in its own end. Chytil made a nifty backhanded pass to Lafreniere in the low shot, and he lifted a one-timer over Grubauer's left shoulder.

Panarin capped the scoring at 5:30 of the third, putting a wrister into the upper right corner of the net after he gloved down the puck and it bounced off two Seattle players before settling in the slot.

--Field Level Media