Brandon Tanev and his fourth line teammates are becoming quite adept at bringing the Kraken back from the brink.

A few nights prior, a Tanev breakaway strike helped cut into a two-goal deficit right at the tail end of the opening period. Then, in Tuesday night’s 5-2 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets, it would be Tanev scoring a tying marker in a four-goal second period outburst that helped the Kraken again rally back from behind by two.

Not long before Tanev’s goal off a 2-on-1 break, his linemate on the fourth trio, Tye Kartye, had finally gotten the Kraken on the board three minutes into the frame with some nice net front work ahead of taking a pass and tucking the puck behind goalie Elvis Merzlikins.

Then, only 10 seconds after Tanev’s tying goal, Eeli Tolvanen converted a cross-ice pass by Jordan Eberle at the net front to put the Kraken ahead to stay. Will Borgen would add his first of the season before the period’s end and Jared McCann an empty net goal in the waning seconds as the Kraken and goalie Joey Daccord picked up their second straight victory.

It’s the first time in three weeks the Kraken have won consecutive games, boosting their season record to 7-8-1. Slow starts have hurt them the weeks in between, with Tuesday night’s game being the sixth straight in which they’ve surrendered the opening goal and the fourth that span in which they’ve fallen behind by at least two.

That’s provided plenty of practice at overcoming deficits for some of the group’s more notorious forecheckers. Tanev, Kartye and Yanni Gourde typically make a living stirring things up and the Kraken desperately needed some of that when the second period began.

They’d been outplayed by a fair margin in the opening frame, giving up five shots in the first two minutes and then yielding goals by Sean Kuraly and Zachary Aston-Reese by the 14:08 mark. By that point, the Blue Jackets had a 15-4 margin in shots and Kraken coach Dan Bylsma called timeout before the ensuing faceoff, trying to instill some cohesion back into his stumbling team.

It seemed to calm the Kraken down before period’s end and they got some juice back in their step the final few shifts. Then, after an intermission of dressing room conversation, they came back out for the middle period and fired 20 shots at a beleaguered Merzlikins.

More importantly, they began getting a lot closer to the net than they had in the first period, helped out by the fourth liners getting to the dangerous areas.

Tanev’s goal was different, as he used his speed to create the odd-man rush with Gourde. As a trailing defender tried to catch up and even things out, Tanev skated over the Columbus blue line and then alertly cut across the ice. The trailing defender at that point did catch up, but Tanev wisely used him as a screen and wristed the puck behind Merzlikins from 21 feet out.

Just four seconds after the goal, the Blue Jackets took a roughing penalty that put the Kraken on the powerplay. Jared McCann won a faceoff inside the Blue Jackets’ zone and hit Eberle with a pass to the left of the Columbus net as Tolvanen headed for the opposite side.

The ensuing pass from Eberle was right on the tape for a Tolvanen goal the Kraken never looked back from.