Playing another struggling team doesn’t help Kraken as they lose fifth straight

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The Seattle Times

A Kraken showdown Wednesday night against a team doing just as poorly as they were seemed the perfect home tonic to right some of their early season woes. Instead, the Kraken again started slow and could not catch up despite pouring it on the final two periods against the Chicago Blackhawks and reigning Vezina Trophy winner Marc-Andre Fleury. The result was a fifth straight Kraken defeat, this one 4-2 in front of 17,151 largely frustrated fans at Climate Pledge Arena. Blackhawks forward Alex DeBrincat scored one goal on a breakaway and set up another as the previously reeling Blackhawks captur…