Brandon Montour and Matty Beniers also scored for the Kraken, who have won four of their last five games. Joey Daccord stopped 29 shots.
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Nicholas Robertson and Morgan Rielly scored for Toronto, which fell to 0-5-1 in its last six games.
Anthony Stolarz, making his second straight start in goal after missing two months with an upper-body injury, allowed a goal on the first shot for the second straight game and finished with 17 saves.
Wright, the fourth overall pick in the 2022 NHL draft, had the second multi-goal game of his career. He had not scored in his last 13 games before scoring his eighth and ninth of the season.
Beniers scored 1:21 into the first period for Seattle. He has a point in five straight games and set a franchise record with 10 goals in a calendar month.
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Robertson tied it at 1 with 4:58 left in the first with a shot from the top of the left circle.
Wright scored on a putback off a rebound at 6:23 of the second period, and Montour added a goal 31 seconds later to give Seattle a 3-1 lead.
After Wright’s penalty, the Maple Leafs capitalized on a Rielly power-play goal 6:04 into the third period to cut their deficit to 3-2.
After forcing a defensive zone change, Wright’s wrist shot put Seattle up 4-2 at 8:32 of the third.
Jared McCann scored his 199th career goal into an empty net with 2:37 left.
Berkly Catton, the Kraken’s first-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft, took a hard hit to the head from Toronto’s Oliver Ekman-Larsson in the first period and did not return.
Next
Maple Leafs: Host Vancouver on Saturday.
Kraken: In Las Vegas on Saturday.
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