Slumping teams lose games like the Bruins lost to the Seattle Kraken on Thursday night at the Garden.

The B’s played hard and dominated for long stretches but every mistake seemed to blow up in their face and they dropped a 4-1 decision to the Kraken. Local product Joey Daccord (37 saves) was both very good and a little lucky. The B’s hit three posts and had a couple more great chances go just wide. Hingham native Matty Beniers also came up big, notching a goal and two assists.

The Kraken also won the special teams battle, as minimal as it was, cashing in on one of its two power-play chances while the B’s came up empty on their two chances.

North Andover native Daccord was under siege in the first few moments of the game but he came up with some big stops. He couldn’t make all of them, however. He first robbed David Pastrnak with a great left pad save from six feet out, but the rebound came right back toward Pastrnak. Whether Pastrnak got his stick on it again or defenseman Jamie Oleksiak got all of it trying to guide the puck back under Daccord, it slipped under the netminder for Pastrnak’s 34th of the season at 4:54. It snapped a four-game goal-less streak for Pastrnak.

For a short time, it looked like the B’s might run away with it. The B’s landed the first nine shots of the game. But when Brandon Carlo clipped Jordan Eberle with a high stick, the Kraken took advantage, with Eberle himself doing the honors. He broke in on the right wing and got a backhander off that Jeremy Swayman stopped. Swayman turned to his right, expecting to follow in that direction but the rebound actually bounced back to Eberle, who had a wide opening in which to score at 9:11.

Though the B’s kept coming, that goal changed the tenor of the game.

The B’s held a 16-8 shot advantage in the first, but could not beat Daccord again in the first 20. They had a great chance to regain the lead late in the period on a 2-on-1, but Matt Grzelcyk heeled Charlie Coyle’s pass just wide.

Daccord remained locked in in the second period, making a good positional save on Pavel Zacha redirect of Pastrnak pass early.

The B’s kept up the pressure. On one sequence, Charlie McAvoy dinged the post to Daccord’s right and then Trent Frederic drew a hooking penalty.

The B’s again failed on the power play, but not for lack of a golden chance. Pastrnak again served as the set-up man, sending a perfect pass to James van Riemsdyk at the top of the crease. But van Riemsdyk, who has had little luck in what has been his office throughout his career, sent the pack behind Daccord but wide.

Then, after Pastrnak hit another post, the Kraken took their first lead of the game with 2:25 left in the period off a boo-boo. With the B’s pressuring, Brad Marchand dished the puck to Carlo at the blue line but Carlo fell down, giving the Kraken a 3-on-1 with only Marchand back to defend. Eeli Tolvanen and Matt Beniers played catch and Tolvanen one-timed return pass past Swayman for the go-ahead goal.

The B’s held a 28-18 shot advantage, but they were looking up at their opponents entering the third period.

They picked up right were they left off in the second, hitting another post, this time Coyle on a backhander.

And when te Kraken got another chance, they cashed in again at 8:36. Parker Wotherspoon had his shot blocked by Alex Wennberg, who the sent Beniers off on a developing odd-man rush. Beniers kept it for himself and beat Swayman with a sizzling snapshot under the bard for a 3-1 Seattle lead.

With still time for the B’s to get back into it, Daccord made another great stop on Pastrnak, lunging to his left to get a piece of it.

The B’s were so desperate to beat Daccord, coach Jim Montgomery pulled Swayman with five minutes to go and they go another good chance that wouldn’t go. But when Pastrnak was called for hooking with 3:43 left, that just about did it. Jared McCann ended it with an empty-netter.