The Vancouver Canucks and Seattle Kraken, meeting for the first time this season, have both been Pacific Division surprises - for different reasons.

Here's one more surprise: Saturday at Rogers Arena, the Kraken did what no other team has done all season - beat the Canucks at home in regulation. It's also the third straight victory for Seattle against its Pacific Northwest rivals.

The 4-3 win makes five out of a possible six points, in the finale of a three-games-in-four-nights stretch.

Early on, Vancouver's 6-foot-8, 229 lbs. defenseman Tyler Myers shoves Seattle's 5-foot-8, 153 lbs. forward Kailer Yamamoto into the side boards. Yamamoto went helmet-first into the glass, which could have resulted in a penalty. If not for that reason, bruising a player who's 12 inches shorter and 76 pounds lighter should be illegal, too.

J.T. Miller puts the Canucks in front 1-0 at 5:36, by an eyelash, after a video review. Never in the century-plus of NHL hockey has a puck completely crossed the goal line by a smaller amount.

Kraken defenseman Will Borgan came a millimeter from rescuing that puck off the goal line. But he didn't.

Boosted by three power play goals Thursday against the Islanders, Seattle boasts the NHL's #7 PP (27%). Considering that Vancouver's PK is ranked 22nd (76%), a Noah Juulsen trip at 15:25 gives the Kraken a prime opportunity to tie the game.

But they don't.

A physical period favors Vancouver in hits, 17-11. Seattle leads in shots, 9-8. The harder stops belonged to Kraken netminder Philipp Grubauer.

What Will Borgen really needed in the 1st period was the wingspan of, oh, say, the NBA Utah Jazz. You know, the guys styling and profiling in the Kraken's Winter Classic sweaters.

Brock Boeser doesn't get much on his shot when Vancouver breaks down ice on a 3-on-1.

Kraken defenseman Jamie Oleksiak ties the game 1-1, with his first goal in 36 games dating back to last March. Oleksiak puts every ounce of his 257-pound frame into a slapshot - at 96 mph, Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko gets a piece of it, and the puck still has enough 'oomph' to rip the cords behind him.

Four minutes later, Oleksiak shows he's pretty good stopping scoring chances, too. The d-man takes the brunt of Phillip Di Giuseppe's drive down the slot off his skate.

At 13:04, as a Seattle power play ends, Jordan Eberle deflects Oliver Bjorkstrand's blue line drive for an apparent Kraken 2-1 lead.

The goal is a weird one. Eberle's deflection takes so much starch out of Bjorkstrand's shot, it lodges behind Demko's left pad. As the goalie slides in the butterfly position back toward his goal line, he inadvertently trickles the puck over that line. After that, Seattle has to survive a lengthy video review to make sure the puck wasn't struck with a high stick.

Eberle is a Canucks-killer; more goals (now 24) than any active player against Vancouver, breaking a tie with Connor McDavid and Tyler Toffoli.

The Kraken lead lasts 2:44, before Quinn Hughes re-knots the contest 2-2 at 15:48.

Grubauer makes his toughest save of the period, rejecting Filip Hronek's testing drive. Seconds later, Grubauer gets a piece of Nils Höglander's knuckler, and a friendly crossbar does the rest.

Final minute truculence: Borgen and Boeser wrestle in the far corner of the Kraken zone; Conor Garland trips Grubauer while skating through the crease. Grubauer twists around, steadies himself, goes down, gets up again. Seattle defenseman Brian Dumoulin skates across all three lines to give Garland an angry shove.

Shots in the period are 8-8, 17-16 Seattle through 40 minutes. Are you not entertained?!

Will Borgen centers to Yanni Gourde, who's made a pest of himself whacking away at pucks from just outside the crease all shift. His last whack spills end-over-end-over-end into the net for a 3-2 Seattle lead at 4:19.

Former Kraken radio voice Dave Tomlinson announces to his Hockey Night In Canada TV audience, "I think this is the time for me to say that Seattle has blown nine leads this season, so we'll see if the Kraken fold here."

Way to jinx the Canucks, Dave: Eberle strips the puck from Myers in the near corner, feeding a wide open Matty Beniers flying down the slot. Beniers' wicked wrister increases the Seattle lead to 4-2 at 6:48.

Beniers has goals in back-to-back games; Eberle has the 36th 3-point game of his career. The Canucks-killer also raised his all-time point total against Vancouver to 42 in 50 career games.

Bad defensive coverage allows Borgen a close-in shot which almost makes it 5-2. Demko saves Bjorkstrand's blast on a 2-on-1.

At the other end, Oleksiak makes another big block, on an Elias Pettersson one-timer; Ilya Mikheyev's left point shot deflects off the right post.

Hoglander cuts the Vancouver deficit to 4-3 with 10 seconds left. Amazingly, directly off the center ice draw, he's able to fire a rising shot which sails high and wide with six seconds left. It still takes a Canucks timeout, a defensive zone faceoff, and one more Grubauer save before the Kraken can exhale with an impressive victory.

Seattle's puck support in its defensive zone was outstanding. If the Kraken do end up making a playoff push this season, they may look back at tonight's outcome as a signature victory.

The Kraken threw 29 hits, had 17 blocks, won 55% of faceoffs, and outshot the Canucks 26-24.