An overtime point can be a moral victory for a team that rallies late. That wasn’t the case for the Wild on Saturday. Minnesota surrendered leads of 2-0, 3-2 and 4-3 before dropping the season’s second game, 5-4, to the Seattle Kraken in a shootout Saturday at Xcel Energy Center. Jordan Eberle scored twice in regulation, then scored the winning goal in the shootout as the Kraken rallied from three regulation deficits to force overtime and earn the extra point in the shootout. After a scoreless three-on-three overtime period, Mats Zuccarello scored on the Wild’s first shootout attempt but Joey Daccord stopped the second two to give Seattle (1-1) the extra point. “We’re not building. We’d like to hold on to leads,” said Ryan Hartman, who scored from the high slot to make it 4-3 with 7:32 remaining in regulation. Hartman, Zuccarello, Matt Boldy and Kirill Kaprizov scored regulation goals for the Wild, but Eberle scored twice for the Kraken to erase a 2-0 deficit, setting the tone for a game in which Seattle never led in regulation. “I mean, we battled back. I think we battled,” Eberle said. “They got the lead three times, we came back all three times. So, that’s a character win.” Marc-Andre Fleury, making his first start of his 21st and final NHL season, stopped 30 of 34 shots in regulation. Daccord stopped 33 of 37 for Seattle. Minnesota now starts a seven-game road trip that starts Sunday evening in Winnipeg against the 2-0 Jets and takes them through the rest of the month with stops in four states. They may have left without their best center. The Wild played more than half of the game without second-line center Joel Eriksson Ek, who was injured when he took an elbow to the face from Seattle defenseman Adam Larsson while forechecking early in the second period. Wild coach John Hynes didn’t have an update on Eriksson Ek, and didn’t immediately know whether the center would be on the plane when the team left for Winnipeg late Saturday night. Bloodied by the hit — which did not draw a penalty — Eriksson Ek went to the trainer’s room and returned for the start of the third period. He played one shift before leaving again. “They just basically tell you he’s kind of done for the game, and I haven’t had a chance to see that,” Hynes said. “Those things happen in the games. Ekky’s a key guy for us in a lot of key situations. But I thought guys did a good job, when you have to rotate the lines around a little bit, you have guys settle in. So, we’ll see.” Tye Kartye scored to tie the game 3-3 early in the third period, and after Hartman gave the Wild a 4-3 lead with 7:32 remaining, Jared McCann beat Fleury high glove side with a one-timer with 3:26 left in regulation. The Wild’s top line scored its first goal of the young season when Zuccarello took a feed from Kaprizov and one-timed it past Daccord for a 1-0 lead at 9:22 of the first period. The goal was Zuccarello’s 200th goal in 836 career NHL games. In the third period, Kaprizov deflected a pass from Marc Rossi between Daccord’s pads to make it 3-2. Kaprizov, Zuccarello and Rossi combined for seven points. “It’s an NHL game, physical, back and forth,” Zuccarello said. “Obviously, it sucks you don’t get the two points. You know, we battled hard. I mean, that’s hockey sometimes, and obviously it’s real frustrating to lose Ekky, a huge part of our group. But that’s also part of the game, so the rest of us have to just step up.” The Kraken tied the game 2-2 on a power play after a strange tripping penalty was called on Jonas Brodin, who was tripped by Brandon Tanev but was called for tripping Tanev, who lost his footing and had to dodge one of Brodin’s skate blades. On the ensuing power play, Eberle set up camp at the corner of the crease and scored when a pass by Jared McCann deflected off his skate behind Fleury to tie the game 2-2 at 8:15. “Tough penalty, but I talked to (the official) after and he said sorry,” Brodin said. “He said something, he saw the wrong stick, but it’s tough. Had some tough bounces, but I thought we played really good today, way better than the first game (a 3-2 victory over Columbus). So, we’re happy about that. We wanted two points but we got one. So, we’ve just got to be ready for tomorrow.” Related Articles Minnesota Wild | Wild blow out Chicago in last preseason tuneup Minnesota Wild | To boost scoring punch, Wild are breaking up one of NHL’s best lines