{"id":474241,"date":"2023-12-28T04:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474241"},"modified":"2023-12-28T03:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T07:49:38","slug":"driedger-returns-after-20-months-to-grant-kraken-2-1-win-over-flames","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/driedger-returns-after-20-months-to-grant-kraken-2-1-win-over-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"Driedger returns after 20 months to grant Kraken 2-1 win over Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his first NHL start in nearly 20 months, Chris Driedger showcased an outstanding performance, making 37 saves to lead the Seattle Kraken to a 2-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday night. Kailer Yamamoto and Alex Wennberg were the goal-scorers for Seattle (13-14-9), extending their points streak to seven games (5-0-2) and propelling them ahead of Calgary in the Pacific Division standings.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary&#8217;s lone goal came from Nazem Kadri (14-16-5), and despite Jacob Markstrom&#8217;s solid effort with 19 saves in his fourth consecutive start for the Flames, Seattle secured the win. The game remained tied at 1 until the decisive moment when Wennberg, six minutes into the third period, received a pass from Jared McCann and swiftly delivered a shot that found the net on the short side, beating Markstrom inside the post.<\/p>\n<p>The Kraken took an early lead, scoring 2:24 into the game on their first shot when Vince Dunn&#8217;s pass set up Yamamoto for a breakaway. Notably, this game marked Seattle&#8217;s 200th regular-season appearance in franchise history, with defenseman Adam Larsson being the sole player to have participated in every one. Larsson also boasts the league&#8217;s fifth-longest active Iron Man streak at 304 consecutive games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RA-4-nWEPZg?si=kcIu9MKSMFHiAl0Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his first NHL start in nearly 20 months, Chris Driedger showcased an outstanding performance, making 37 saves to lead the Seattle Kraken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":474242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16990,17335],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[18445,18444],"acf":{"announce":"The goalie made stunning 37 saves on the night","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474244,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474241\/revisions\/474244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474241"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474241"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}