The Seattle Kraken (39-24-7, 85 points, 4th Pacific) visit the Home of the Opry on Thursday to play the Nashville Predators (35-26-8, 78 points, 5th Central). Seattle defeated the Dallas Stars 5-4 in overtime on Tuesday but the Kraken have lost four of the last six. Seattle is 4th in the Pacific Division three points behind the third and final automatic qualifying spot. The Kraken are first in the Western Conference Wild Card chase two points ahead of second place Winnipeg and the first two places qualify. Nashville defeated the Buffalo Sabres 7-3 on Tuesday. Nashville is fifth in the Central Division and five points behind the second and final wildcard spot in the Western Conference. Seattle will play without Andre Burakovsky and Joonas Donskoi, while Nashvill e will play without Mark Borowiecki, Alexandre Carrier, Filip Forsberg and Ryan Johansen
Seattle is scoring an average of 3.50 goals per game which is 5th highest in the NHL, but the Kraken are allowing an average of 3.20 goals per game which is 17th. Seattle averages 30.3 shots per game which is 21st and the Kraken are allowing an average of 27.7 shots per game which is third best. Seattle's power play scores 19.5% of the time the Kraken have the man advantage which is 23rd, while the penalty kill unit is successful 74.4% of time Seattle is shorthanded which is 27th.
Jared McCann is the leading goal scorer for Seattle with 34 while Maddie Beniers is second with 19 and two others have scored 17 goals each. The leader in assists is Vince Dunn with 44 and Jordan Eberle is second with 38. Dunn is the points leader with 57 and McCann has 56. Seattle has scored just 39 goals on the power play in 70 game s. Philipp Grubauer is 13-12-4 with a 3.02 goals against average, .892 save percentage with no shutouts.
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