Fact checked at 9:12 AM ET, Nov 14, 2026Odds as of 7:27 AM ET, Nov 14, 2026
Seattle and Carolina play the second of their two games in Helsinki, a neutral site, at 1:00 PM ET. Carolina won the first one 4-1 two days ago and outshot the Kraken 30-13. The season numbers point the same way. Carolina (15-3-2) scores 4.10 goals a game, the most in the league, and allows 2.25, the second-fewest. It also takes the most shots per game (33.1) and allows the fewest (22.0). Seattle (9-7-1) gives up 3.59 goals a game, the fourth-most, and kills 65.2% of its penalties, third-worst.
Carolina should treat Seattle the way it has treated the league's other leaky defenses, with Jackson Blake's line and power-play unit doing a lot of the damage. Pyotr Kochetkov (11-1-0, 1.67 goals-against average, .920 save percentage) is expected in Carolina's net and Joey Daccord (4-3-0, 3.83, .881) in Seattle's, after Brandon Bussi and Philipp Grubauer started the first game. Neither is confirmed. Seattle forward Jagger Firkus makes his NHL debut, and Carolina captain Jordan Staal, out the past 14 games with a torn calf muscle, could return.
Kraken vs. Hurricanes Predictions
Pick #1Hurricanes -1.5−156
Carolina has played three of the league's four leakiest defenses five times this season: Vancouver twice, Chicago twice and Seattle two days ago. It won all five by at least two goals, 7-2, 5-2, 6-3, 9-2 and 4-1. Five games is a small group, but those are the games that look most like this one.
Carolina's full record is closer to the price. It has won by two or more in 11 of 20 games, 55%, and -156 implies 60.9%, so we're betting on the opponent here more than on Carolina's habits. Seattle has lost by two or more in 6 of 17. It managed 13 shots on goal in the first game, and Carolina's power play now gets one of the league's weakest penalty kills. The line opened around even money after the first game and has climbed to -156, which makes this a fair price rather than a bargain.
Last season is the warning. Carolina outshot Seattle 36-12 and 36-15 in their two meetings and came away with a 3-2 win and a 2-1 loss. Any one-goal Carolina win, including one in overtime or a shootout, loses this bet. The case also assumes Kochetkov, who has won 11 of his 12 starts. A switch to Bussi, who allowed one goal in the first game, wouldn't worry us much; a Seattle switch back to Grubauer, who stopped 26 of 30, would.
Pick #2Jackson Blake Over 0.5 Points−165
Blake has a point in 10 straight games and in 16 of Carolina's 20, with 20 points in all (5 goals, 15 assists). He also had a point in each of the five games against Vancouver, Chicago and Seattle, nine points in total, including an assist two days ago.
At -165 the implied chance is 62.3%, and his longer record says to be careful. Last season he had a point in 41 of 81 games, about half. His role is bigger now. He's averaging 17:54 a night, up from 16:30 last season, on the second line with Nikolaj Ehlers and Logan Stankoven, and he's projected on the first power-play unit. Six of his 20 points have come on the power play, compared with 12 in all of last season, and that unit gets a Seattle penalty kill that has allowed a goal on more than a third of its chances.
The projected lines are the main risk. If Staal returns, Carolina's bottom six gets reshuffled, but the projections keep Blake with Ehlers and Stankoven and on the top unit. He has been held without a point only four times all season.
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