Catton’s shot was stopped on the goal line by the pad of Rangers goalie Jonathan Quick, but he pushed in the loose rebound for his fourth goal in his past four games and a 3-2 Kraken lead.
Eeli Tolvanen, Jordan Eberle and Jared McCann also scored, Kaapo Kakko and Ryan Lindgren each had an assist in their returns to Madison Square Garden, and Philipp Grubauer made 20 saves for the Kraken (21-15-8), who are 9-1-2 in their past 12 games.
Seattle, which trailed 2-0 in the first period, earned its third multigoal comeback win of the season, all three coming on the road.
Mika Zibanejad and Sam Carrick scored, and Quick made 25 saves for the Rangers (20-21-6), who have lost four straight (0-3-1) since defeating the Florida Panthers in the 2026 Discover NHL Winter Classic in Miami on Jan. 2.
The Kraken trailed 2-0 after the first period but Tolvanen made it a 2-1 game 1:00 into the second period, taking a backhand cross-ice pass from Frederick Gaudreau alone in the slot and beating Quick with a backhand-forehand shot.
Eberle made it 2-2 at 4:27 with a wrist shot from above the circles that beat Quick high to the glove side. The pass to Eberle came from Kakko, who was selected No. 2 by the Rangers in the 2019 NHL Draft and played his first 331 NHL games with New York before being traded to Seattle on Dec. 18, 2024.
After Catton gave Seattle the lead, McCann capped the scoring with an empty-net goal with 10 seconds left for the 4-2 final.
Zibanejad gave New York a 1-0 lead at 3:08 of the first period when his shot on goal went off Grubauer’s glove and fell behind the net. Zibanejad collected the puck behind the goal line and slid it toward the net where it caromed off the back of Grubauer’s pads and in.
Carrick made it 2-0 at 5:31, capitalizing on a Kraken turnover. McCann passed the puck from the neutral zone back to his own blue line, but the pass missed defenseman Vince Dunn and Wright and went to Carrick, who turned and beat Grubauer with a wrist shot to the blocker side.
Lindgren got the secondary assist on Catton’s goal. The defenseman played 387 games for New York from the 2018-2019 season to March 1, 2025, when he was traded to the Colorado Avalanche. He signed with Seattle as a free agent on July 1, 2025.
