NHL: Teuvo Teräväinen makes a huge mark, Kaapo Kakko debuts

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Seattle Kraken played his first match in the shirt Kaapo Kako went scoreless against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Chicago won the match 3–1.

Kakko played in his team’s first fist, but was left with a modest, slightly more than 13 minutes of playing time.

The sophomore came close to scoring in his first match in a Seattle jersey, but his wrist shot went over the crossbar. Suomalaislaitur had two shots on goal.

The second played together by Matty Beniers and Jared McCannin with.

Kako’s chain controlled the puck well, but the trio did not want to get into dangerous goal positions. This was often Kako’s story in the New York Rangers as well.

The second played a decent basic game, but apart from the upper bar shot, he was quite invisible in the direction of attack and relied on safe and simple, even slightly cautious solutions on the ice.

Of course, this is understandable in a new team.

With Kako’s chain on the ice, the goal posts went to the opponent 2–1.

With the upper hand, Kakko was allowed to play for one minute and 15 seconds.

The New York Rangers traded Kako to the Kraken on Wednesday. Kakko said that he hopes for a new start to his career in Seattle. At no point did he live up to the high expectations in New York.

In the video linked to the story, Teuvo Teräväinen’s assists in the match.

of the Chicago Blackhawks Teuvo Teräväinen was completely lost in the NHL for a while, but in the last matches the Helsinki native has been in a wild mood.

Against Kako’s new club Seattle Kraken, Teräväinen assisted two of the team’s three goals.

Teräväinen has scored a sweet eight (1+7) power points in the last three matches. Before that, he had three scoreless games.

In the seven games in December before the start of his streak, the Finn managed only two assists.

The Swedish head coach of the Blackhawks Anders Sörensenin the solution is playing the Russian in the last three matches from Teräväi in the same chain Ilya Mikheev with is proving to be a genius label. The duo’s joint play works like a model.

Mikheyev, 30, scored two goals in the Kraken net from Teräväinen’s pass. In the last three matches, he has scored four times and also had one assist.

Teräväinen has stealthily risen to second place in the Blackhawks’ internal point exchange with 21 (7+14) points. Super talent Connor Bedardilla has 26 points.

Colorado The Finns of the Avalanche took action when their team was in trouble against the San Jose Sharks in the third period. The Sharks led the match 2–1, but Mikko Rantanen leveled the score at 2–2 with a dominant force around the middle of the final set.

Then Joel Kiviranta stepped forward. He first gave his team a 3–2 lead and after a while finished Artturi Lehkonen pass for his second goal of the night. Avalanche won the match 4–2.