In the Seattle Kraken’s triumphant 5-4 overtime win against the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday night, Brandon Montour made Kraken and NHL history. Montour is new to the Kraken this season, after signing a long-term contract in free agency.
Montour scored the overtime game-winning goal just four seconds into overtime, a record previously tied for six seconds by five players: Mats Sundin in 1995, David Legwand in 2006, Alex Ovechkin in 2006, Andreas Athanasiou in 2018, and William Nylander in 2018. With this goal, Montour also tied the record for the fastest goal in any period with three other players doing it in regulation. Claude Provost was the first, in the second period for Montreal in a 1957 game against Boston. Denis Savard for Chicago in the third period against Hartford in a 1986 game, and James van Riemsdyk at the start of the second for Toronto against Philadelphia in 2014.
The overtime game winning goal came as Chandler Stephenson, also new to the Kraken this season, won the face-off and sent the puck to Montour. After the game, Montour gave all of the credit to Stephenson, saying, “That was Chandler to be honest, he came up with it…. I told Chandler just to make sure he was staying back just in case anything went south, saw he bumped it up, and we went for it.”
In addition to breaking that overtime record, Montour is also the first defenseman to score five goals against the Canadiens in a single season since Ray Bourque in the 1983-84 season. As far as Kraken history goes, Montour has the most goals by a Kraken defenseman in a single season. A record previously held by defenseman Vince Dunn.
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