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Byfield’s goal, his third of the series, came on a breakaway that saw him beat Leon Draisaitl up the slot, deke Edmonton goalie Calvin Pickard to his left, then slip the puck behind him and into the net.

St. Louis nearly took the lead early in the second period when Zack Bolduc finished an odd-man rush with a nice deke move on Daccord only to have the puck go off the post as he tried to tuck it home.

Mike Matheson ended all doubt for Montreal the latter half of the second period by outracing Tomas Tatar for a puck while short-handed, going in alone and putting an all-star deke move on newly inserted Kraken goalie Joey Daccord to make it 5-1 in the latter half of the middle frame.

But when General Stafford flew with the civilian astronauts Donald K. Slayton, known as Deke, and Vance D. Brand in the Apollo capsule that docked with the Soviet Union’s two-man Soyuz some 140 miles above the earth, he looked beyond the rivalries of world powers.

McMichael pulled a nifty backhanded deke move on Daccord for the go-ahead goal with 8:42 to go, and that was the game and pretty much the Kraken season from a playoff perspective.