Notable: Players looking to end long droughts came up with important goals as the Kraken rallied in the third period and snapped a five-game road losing streak. Shane Wright scored Seattle’s opening goal after being a healthy scratch the last three games. It was his second of the season and first since Oct. 17.

Maligned forward Andre Burakovsky ended the longest goalless drought of his career with a grimy goal in the opening seconds of the third period and Brandon Montour’s blast 1:10 into the third gave Seattle the lead coming off a faceoff win by Wright.

Joey Daccord made 21 saves and came up with two huge stops in the second period on short-handed chance for the Ducks while Seattle’s power play continued to look clunky and disconnected.

The Kraken are 0-for-15 on the power play over the past five games.

Tye Kartye was penalized in the second period following a hit on Ducks’ top center Leo Carlsson that sent him flying into the goal and knocked him out for the game with an upper-body injury. That could carryover into Wednesday’s matchup.

Goal of the game: All three goals were important but Montour’s slapshot off the faceoff was perfect. The shot cleanly got through traffic and continued rising over the blocker of Anaheim goalie Lukáš Dostál. Montour has scored in three straight games for the first time in his career.

Player of the game: Ryker Evans very quietly had a two-assist game and was solid defensively against Anaheim’s cast of skilled young forwards.

On tap: The two teams will run it back on Wednesday night at Climate Pledge Arena.

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