Chandler Stephenson has scored in back-to-back games, totaling 3 points (2g/1a). Kaapo Kakko has 8 points (3g/5a) in his last 6 games, including 11 points in 18 games vs. Washington. Jaden Schwartz leads Kraken skaters in points (16) and assists (12) and had a hat trick on January 18. He has 7 points (3g/4a) in his last 6 games.

For the Washington Capitals, this season was expected to be about Alex Ovechkin's chase to surpass Wayne Gretzky for the NHL's career goal-scoring record.

BOTTOM LINE: The Washington Capitals seek to continue a five-game win streak with a victory against the Seattle Kraken. Seattle has a 21-24-3 record overall and an 11-10-3 record in home games. The Kraken have a 4-9-0 record in games their opponents commit fewer penalties.

Washington’s five-game road trip continues on Thursday night when it visits Seattle to take on the Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena. The Caps carry a five-game winning streak into Thursday’s game, matching their longest streak of the season. Washington also owns an 11-game point streak (8-0-3) as it prepares to take on the Kraken.

With the Capitals in town Thursday night, Kraken fans get an up-close view of Alex Ovechkin as he closes in on Wayne Gretzky's record for goals scored.

Tom Wilson also scored his 20th of the season last night off a 2-on-1 feed from Aliaksei Protas, and continues to have himself a great year so far. He projects to have 35 goals and 61 points when the season wraps up, which will be career-best numbers for him as well.

Guarding cage against Kraken

Longtime NHL coach and scout Tom McVie, who died Sunday at age 89, won a minor professional championship as a player with the Seattle Totems and settled permanently in Washington on his way to becomin

Pierre-Luc Dubois starred for the Capitals, scoring a goal and assisting another one, while Tom Wilson and Matt Roy also found the back of the net. For Edmonton, Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry scored, but the Oilers struggled to fill the void left by McDavid, who sits fifth in NHL scoring this season with 65 points.

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The Kraken won for the third time in the past four games with five different goal scorers, the two most noteworthy by John Hayden and Jamie Oleksiak

The Capitals were favored to win the Stanley Cup in 2010, but adding rentals wasn't the "healthiest thing to go through," alum Brendan Morrison said.