Three Takeaways: Kraken slide continues as they get spanked 9-4 by McDavid and the Oilers

by | Dec 4, 2025 | 44 comments

Here’s the good news: the Seattle Kraken scored four goals. Here’s the bad news: [gestures wildly] everything else about this godawful game.

There was a fleeting moment late in the first period when the Kraken looked like they had woken up and were going to overcome a 3-0 deficit. Eeli Tolvanen scored as a power play expired (officially, it goes as an even-strength goal, so the PP remains scoreless since… gosh, I don’t even know), and Freddy Gaudreau stripped Leon Draisaitl and scored his first as a Kraken.

But from there, it was alllllllll Edmonton. The Oilers began pouring it on and didn’t stop until they had nine goals on the board, their fans were doing the wave, and it felt like the merciful final horn would never come. Connor McDavid had a hat trick, Draisaitl had four points, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Evan Bouchard each had three points, and Matt Savoie had two goals. Yuck.

Here’s how coach Lane Lambert summed it up: “Their power play scores four, we gave up a shorthanded goal when the score was 3-2, and we had an opportunity to get back into the game because we’re not aware of somebody behind us, and it ends up in a breakaway. [We made] mistakes, and I didn’t think our goaltending was great tonight. So, if you add it all up, it equals nine.”

Also, when Piper Shaw asked a seething Lambert what he says to the team after a game like this, Lambert somewhat aggressively replied, “Nothing.”

Here are Three Takeaways from an embarrassing 9-4 Kraken loss to the Oilers.

Takeaway : Bad night to be a Kraken goalie

Let me preface this by saying the Kraken defense—facing an extremely dangerous Edmonton offense—was the worst it’s been all season. Rushes, backdoor passes, breakaways, you name it… Seattle allowed all of it.

With that disclaimer said, I’ve always been a proponent of switching goalies early in a game when you recognize the starter is not at his sharpest. It’s not about saying it’s the goalie’s fault; it’s about giving your team a chance to reset, get a fresh-minded goalie in there before your No. 1 guy gets too rattled, and perhaps spark something for your group, especially if the backup can come in and stop the bleeding. You can see when your guy doesn’t have it from the jump. It happens, and I’ve always believed the best thing for the goalie’s psyche in that scenario is to get him out of there while the game is still within reach.

Joey Daccord and the Kraken actually got a lucky break early in this game, when Andrew Mangiapane (and the entire arena) thought he had scored, but replay showed he had hit both posts and the puck had somehow stayed out. Soon after that, McDavid got his first of three goals with a snipe at 7:17, and Vasily Podkolzin squeezed one through the wickets just 17 seconds later.

That’s when I would have made the change. Yes, it’s only 2-0, but Daccord had been beaten three times in a row at that point.

Instead, Daccord stayed in until the Oilers had hung five goals on him, capped off by McDavid’s second of the game, a stinker at 6:14 of the second. Daccord allowed five goals on 14 shots for a .643 save percentage.

Of course, Philipp Grubauer didn’t fare much better, relenting four goals on 18 shots for a .778 save percentage, but by the time he came in, it felt like Seattle had no chance of getting back in.

This was a bad night for everybody. Let’s hope both goalies can recover quickly from this one, because this is the kind of game that can stick with netminders for a while.

Takeaway : The penalty kill… My God, the penalty kill

What is up with this PK? I know the Edmonton Oilers have an incredible power play, but every time the Kraken took a penalty in this game, they could have just said, “Ok, take the goal, and let’s move on.”

In fact, on the first power-play goal against in the game, it took SEVEN SECONDS for the Oilers to win the face-off, work it from high to low and across to Leon Draisaitl, and he banged it home for his 16th goal of the season.

They made it look… VERY… easy.

“We can’t give up four power-play goals,” Lambert said. “I don’t care if it’s McDavid, whatever, but it’s not good enough.”

What’s distressing is that special teams was a huge point of focus during Seattle’s three days of practice this week. You wouldn’t have known it watching this game. I do think it’s time for a change of formation. We’ve seen them try more complicated PK systems in the past, get lit up in this area, and then shift to a simpler box. It’s past time to try something different.

Takeaway : Is the early-season magic fading

The Kraken got off to a nice start to their season, planting themselves firmly into a playoff spot and making us believe that their staunch defensive approach could carry them all the way to the postseason. That magic seems to have faded, as the Oilers have exposed their flaws in these two consecutive matchups in which Edmonton won 14-3 on aggregate. The Kraken have gone 0-3-1 in their last four, getting shut out twice in that stretch, and dropping out of the playoff bubble.

Of course, there are highs and lows in the course of any season, and this is certainly a low point of the campaign to date. But it also feels like an inflection point. The Kraken can find a way to stop the bleeding here, rack up a couple wins against good teams at home, and get things going back in the right direction.

Or they can keep playing like this, pile up a bunch of losses, and plummet down the airtight standings.

Darren Brown

Darren Brown is the Chief Content Officer at soundofhockey.com and the host of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast. He is a member of the PHWA and is also usually SOH’s Twitter intern (but please pretend you don’t know that). Follow him @DarrenFunBrown and @sound_hockey or email darren@soundofhockey.com.

44 Comments

  1. Daryl W

    Ouch!

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  2. Foist

    Plummet! Plummet! Plummet!

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  3. PAX

    What the actual f*ck was that..

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    • Daryl W

      …but they had 32 shots on goal. That’s second only to the 33 the managed against Ottawa. They lost that one too.

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      • Nino

        Shoot shoot shoot, oh wait are we supposed to score or just shoot lol

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  4. Nino

    I joke because we did score but the Edmonton goaltending wasn’t good and I don’t agree with Mr Brown.. I think our goaltending wasn’t the problem. They took quality chances and converted we took shoots but really nothing dangerous. I’ve been saying this from the day LL was hired it’s going to be boring hockey and he’s going to tire on the team and it won’t last.

    Do some research on how his time on the island went, started out well and was fired within a year and a half. I know people were jumping up and down because we won a few games but paid no attention to how we were winning them. The style we are playing isn’t sustainable, teams lean and make adjustments. If you have nothing you still have nothing end of story. The real problem is RF for putting together this mess and even thinking of hiring LL. Ownership needs to change course and rid themselves of him as soon as possible.

    We were much to passive tonight and pretty much just set up a passive box, Edmonton was probably very motivated by Mr chicken and came out on fire. One thing we can probably thank Marchment for is getting the oilers going… thanks chicken little.

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    • Sean Bellman

      You need players to play the style that much of this fanbase claims they want. This team does not have those players. So people can keep blaming coach after coach but at some point you have to call a spade a spade. This team does not have the talent necessary to truly compete. The fact that this organization just keeps running it back should tell you where the REAL problems lie. And that is in the front office and above. Period.

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      • Foist

        The video won’t work for me. Youtube doesn’t seem to like how it’s imbedded on reddit. Do you have a link directly to youtube?

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      • Foist

        OK found it. Very well done and on point, although did not tell me anything I didn’t already know. It’s uncanny how he says this season has been “worst case scenario” based on exactly the same reasoning almost word for word that I wrote here a few days ago. I wonder if he saw my comment before posting his video?

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      • Paul W

        I hate to say it but I agreed with literally everything that guy says in that video. Ugh

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  5. Jim A Szymanski

    Keep Lars, Dunn, Kaako, Kartye, Montour, Eberle and Schwartzy, then blow the rest of the team up. Trade like hell, draft aggressively and call up kids from CV.
    Face it. Until the Kraken get at least a few proven snipers, they’re looking up and outside a playoff berth for maybe 3-5 more years. Joey’s gung ho but that doesn’t stop shots and he’s an adventure handling pucks around a crowded net. Enjoy the wins you get but get real about this and admit you’re rebuilding after the surprising Season 2.

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  6. Bean

    How about never wear those fancy new alternate uni’s again. They have lost every game badly while wearing them. Sarcasm

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  7. RB

    I hate to say it, but it feels like we’re going to be hearing about these two games for the rest of the season – as the turning point for both Seattle and Edmonton.

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    • Daryl W

      Well at least they’ve got a nice light schedule ahead with just 10 games in the next 18 days.

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      • RB

        But if this is what 3 days of practice gets us, I’m not so sure that’s a good thing 😉.

        I don’t know what they do in terms of sports psychologists, but giving up 5 goals on special teams after spending so much time focused on that has got to be messing with some heads.

        Also, remind me again why we got Gaudreau? Wasn’t it for his supposed prowess on special teams and faceoffs? Right now, he’s 18% on short handed faceoffs.

        In an attempt to be less negative, I did like seeing Nyman paired back up with Kakko. I’m still feeling like there’s some language barrier with Nyman. I wonder if Kakko or Tolvanen want to join Chandler Stephenson in the billet dad club?

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  8. Wittmont

    The Kraken’s wins were against weak and slumping teams early in the season before teams had found their legs. Add a large portion of luck with seeing-eye-shots and lucky bounces going their way and it all looked easy.

    Now reality is setting in. This team was and remains a mishmash of disparate parts that lacks a true core and true direction. The coaching is questionable and the managements decisions are weak i.e. signing Marchment, Lindgren and Gaudreau and picking Lambert as coach didn’t move this team forward one single quarter of an inch.

    The team is now 25th in the standings and sinking fast. Even with games in hand it’s not easy to see where the points are going to come from. The next five games are against the Wild, Kings, Avs, Ducks and Kings again. Unless the team gets the necessary lucky bounces, great goaltending and greatly improved special teams those games can easily become five losses. Even three losses will be bad enough.

    What is worrying is that the coaches worked hard on the special teams over the last few days yet the PK in particular looked clueless. Feels like the players are being hammered/overwhelmed by the coaches and it’s not working. As for goaltending, Joey is at his best when he plays with fire, speed and athleticism, but in this system he looks static, slow and full of holes.

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    • Daryl W

      Witt… I appreciate a lot of what you’re saying here and as the season goes on – especially the next three weeks – I think there may be some big decisions to make… but “they’re 25th in the standings” is very obviously misleading. No team in the league has played as few games as Seattle and their points percentage is squarely in the middle of the league at 16th.

      Like I said, I appreciate what you’re saying and the “sinking fast part” may be true, but I think it’s a bit too soon to throw in the towel. I think, however, there’s a good chance they’ll know by Christmas.

      Right now their points percentage would have them in wildcard one but the trend is not looking good. If Kyrou became available today, what would you do.

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      • Wittmont

        Hey Daryl, I saw you asking me in the other thread what I would do in this overall situation for the Kraken. The Kyrou q is good – Imo he is good in the o zone, but not good enough to make up for his shortcomings elsewhere. He’s a 1. a winger and 2. falls below the star threshold for me, so I wouldn’t trade for him (maaaybe if the price was very reasonable, which it won’t be). Now Thomas is another matter, but he won’t be made available by the Blues.

        Now what to do:

        1. First priority must be to get young top talent into the roster and create a true young core. Yes, this takes time and a lot of the kids will miss, but all Cup winners have a homegrown core of top talent. (Yes, Vegas is an exception, but a major mistake made by the Kraken was not to acknowledge the truth this org is not Vegas and never could be. There has been a problem with accurately appraising where the club is/was from the very start. This is a root problem that persists to this day. Marketing cannot top reality).

        2. Priority must be to develop the kids to their full, confident potential – for example, see what MTL did with Caufield.. Their previous Dino coach tried to make him a two-way third line grinder type (ouch Kraken), Caufield lost his way and was sent down to the AHL. MTL realized their mistake and brought in Martin St. Louis to allow Caufield to play his own true game 100% and look at him now.

        3. Turn over the expiring vets rather than hang on them. This team will not lack veteran players even if players such as Marchment, Oleksiak, one of Schwartz/Eberle, McCann and Dunn (or Evans) are traded. (McCann is an outlier, too good for this team and he has value. Dunn is not getting better and he also carries value.)

        4. No Dino coaches who love their limited veteran grinders and to play guys like Marchment on the top line. I don’t care about “we tried that with Bylsma” talk, the point is the coach has to be good and be able to develop kids, *in particular* at the NHL level. (No more talk of “the NHL is not a development league” – that’s just a platitude cop out). Don’t push for the playoffs with crap veteran teams year in year out- that’s a dead end.

        5. Be creative and daring in trades. E.g. The Ducks traded Zegras (9OA) and Drysdale (4OA) to the Flyers in return for Gauthier (5OA) and Poehling. Growing kids gives you trade ammo even when they don’t fit your team or vision. Florida was able to trade for M.Tkachuk (6OA) in part because they had Huberdeau (2OA) to send back.

        For starters and so on.

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        • Daryl W

          Witt, I replied at the bottom because it’s another TLDR and I was afraid it would be too skinny in the thread.

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          • Daryl W

            I think you and I are closer on a lot of things than we might realize. One thing we absolutely agree on is No.3, but to me, this isn’t new to the franchise.

            I watched Chuck’s video and I was surprised by a few things. First, I was surprised that guy wasn’t eating cashews and smoking cigarettes (it’s a joke Chuck, not an attack). Second, I was surprised by how many of the things Seattle has done that he was actually positive about. Beyond that, he even gave Francis credit for actually laying the foundation in Carolina. He went so far as to say the idea of Seattle taking Gauthier over Wright was ridiculous. All and all, there were a few things I disagreed with, but not to any extreme. One thing I did disagree with – and this gets back to No.3 – is his take on the expansion draft. He starts out saying teams were prepared after Vegas but Seattle still could have added picks by taking on bad contracts in a flat cap situation. So Seattle missed the chance to load up on picks because they decided to draft a “win now team”… but did they? In the eight months following the expansion draft the Kraken moved out nine players and brought in 13 picks including five seconds and two thirds. No firsts, but Francis tried on Giordano and Treliving wouldn’t go for it. That first ended up being Matt Coronato, nice player, but not the “difference maker” this team is missing. Seattle didn’t draft a “win now” team, they drafted a lot of contracts they could move instead of bad contracts they’d get stuck with. They’ve unloaded contracts at the trade deadline every year except the playoff season, and to Francis’s credit, he didn’t add that season. If Seattle had made nine trades for 13 picks at the draft and they sucked, it would’ve been a big success, but because teams weren’t willing to do deals, Francis had to drag it out over eight months… same result. The media’s attention span is one day, not eight months. I expect if they end up out of it, they’ll move bodies. Maybe not Eberle, but I’m okay with that.

            I’m rooting for wins, but if they fade, I’m good with every expiring going out the door… and even Ebs if it’s a spot he’d be good with.

            Go Kraken!!!

          • Daryl W

            I do wish I could delete on here. Got my post screwed up and it ended up above instead of down here… this is related to my Wittmont reply above.

            On the expansion draft… I don’t know if you’ve got an Athletic account but I’m gonna add a couple links. One is the staffs final mock draft and the other is a redraft at the end of the season. These are pretty interesting to go back and read. Some of the highlights from the latter: Jake Bean instead of Morgan Geekie, Vladimir Tarasenko instead of Vince Dunn and Oliver Kylington instead of Mark Giordano. One fetched two seconds (Kokko and Drageicevic) and the other ended up in player assistance – which is too bad, seriously. Hindsight is rather nefarious, but it’s also enlightening sometimes. I guess it just depends on how you want to use it.

            https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/2715340/2021/07/21/seattle-kraken-mock-expansion-draft/

            https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3250808/2022/04/16/seattle-kraken-redraft/

            Go Kraken!!!

          • Wittmont

            Bc of the crappy WP format I couldn’t reply below so I’m doing it here.

            The issue is not the expansion draft and its details. The issue is that it was obvious to everyone, fans and pundits alike, that the Kraken did not get a team anywhere near what Vegas did in the expansion. The issue is that Francis et al pretended they did and acted as if they had gotten that much stronger team. Francis promised that in 5 years his team would be challenging for the CUP. Well, we know that was baloney because 5 years later we can now see our very, very middling team, that may or may not make the playoffs, struggle to play three nights a week.

            Instead of doubling and trippling down on mediocrity Francis should have accepted reality and been much more pro-active and aggressive in building a real team, even if the compete horizon would be pushed ahead a few years. The truth is he did not have the balls, the vision or the knowhow to do so. Now we are stuck in No man’s land (“the most irrelevant franchise in the NHL”) looking at the need to urgently and aggressively retool/rebuild to get fresh YOUNG talent into the team to give it, at long last, a real meaningful direction.

            I capitalized the Young because I fully expect the weak people in charge to not have the balls to do something real, but instead they will go for more same old, same old generic middle-6 forward recycling and try to see if they can make yet another stupid generic UFA deal or three or five to keep up appearances and for window dressing.

            For whatever reason the Kraken now find themselves exactly where Carolina was when Francis was fired by the Hurricanes, a team without a direction firmly mired in mediocrity. This is after 5 long years of Francis’/Botterill’s “management”. I’m roasting Francis, but for all we know it is just as much ownership who steered it all this way. Reality is that they need to change course and come up with much better plans and execute those plans to a t.

            I don’t care if they fire Francis upstairs again and give him the title of Lord Emperor Ming of Hockey Operations in the Galaxy, or whatever, and “promote” Botterill to “VP” or “President” or Head Chef. Something has to change with how this outfit is run.

            Generic decisions in = Generic results out = Not Acceptable.

        • Daryl W

          Witt… I consume a lot of Kraken content – and it seems like there’s less and less every day – and I do not recall Ron Francis ever talking about this team being a Cup contender in five years… maybe I missed that. I also don’t recall him acting like they drafted a “much stronger team”. On the contrary, the whole playoff season every time I saw him he actually looked pretty disappointed and very dubious of the results. I think the fact that they did absolutely nothing at the trade deadline says a lot. I feel like from day one it’s been “draft and develop” and given his record in Carolina, I’d say ownership knew they were in for a long process.

          As for when he left in Carolina… they’ve been in the playoffs ever since. Are you saying he’s built a team that is on the cusp of being a perennial playoff team? They’re just a Rod Brind’Amour away?

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          • Daryl W

            Following on…

            I would say I’m in the same camp as you Witt to a degree. It seems to me they’ve been bringing along their young players in a rather deliberate manner and to me what some folks think of as “going for it” with aging veterans is actually more about supporting that path. By comparison, the Ducks have more and older “veterans”, but nobody confuses why they’re there. Where I would say I’m in the same camp as you is a matter of timing. They have a ton of money coming off the books at the end if this season and their young prospects should be far enough along to make some decisions on. Bill Armstrong of Utah said his research show it takes six to 16 years to build a Cup contender. The end of next season will be six… I’m giving them until then, unless Yzerman becomes available of course. If nothing by then… burn it down.

          • Wittmont

            Replying to both replies here. The Kraken are not in a total rebuild situation in that they already have a nicely stocked prospect system, that unfortunately still lacks a few elite players/prospects, the crucial elite ones. But overall they are not in a bad situation to start a mini-rebuild/retool/re-whatever as the Blues GM calls it and dip into the top 5 for two or three seasons. I don’t think they need to burn it down totally even, not like San Jose or Chicago did. But they do have trade ammo if they dare to use it (McCann, Dunn, D’Accord even, Wright if they don’t like him which seems to be the case). And they already have long term veterans to solidify the team (Cups, Monty, Lindgren, Gaudreau, Larsson are signed long term and then Schwartz or Eberle, maybe Tolvanen/Mahura or whomever of the vets they chose to keep).

            Re: Expansion team. Well, I can only speculate why they have been so passive in their dealings, just gently pushing/hoping for the playoffs, dealing a bit here and there but, essentially, they have done the bare minimum maintenance. If they knew they were in for a long process, why slow cook it to the point it will only take even longer? Have they been so scared of losing their own fanbase as a new franchise that they voluntarily have made basically no noise at all… to the point pundits and fans are questioning what is going on here?

            The Carolina comment was simply that as soon as Francis left they found that yes, in fact there are trades to be made, that wheeling and dealing was possible which allowed them to take a “great leap forward”. Tbf Francis did leave them with talent in the pool so they were not totally up sh*t creek (I’m essentially paraphrasing one of their fans who was critical of Francis).

  9. Craig M Weish

    Darren’s goalie pulling philosophy approximates my channel changing phi!osophy. Its been time to accept our reality (no talent) for awhile now. Probably need 3-4 Top 4 picks in a row to escape.

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  10. KrakBirds23

    Not comforting, but at least this is a team I expect to get blown out by. Not like I would the Sharks. This is the type of game a coach should get fired over. I’m not sure who is coaching the PK but whatever they are making is too much.

    My odd notes from the first period last night:
    – Daccord isn’t going to start the second period (Seattle down 3-0 at the time)
    – We aren’t going to come back from 2-0 with only 4 shots taken in the first 12 minutes.

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  11. harpdog

    Oh well, Get over it boys, go back to playing defense first. Fix special teams

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    • Foist

      Uh supposedly “fix special teams” is what they were doing during that 4-day break…

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  12. Scott A

    I blame the pregame meal of lasagna and stuffing.

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  13. PAX

    My shell-shock is over. Those Oilers sure didn’t look like a team that had the same record as Kraken!
    Well, there’s not much we can do about (last night) now, there are still 60 games to play! Leave that crap in the rear view mirror.
    I do agree about the 3rd jerseys. Hockey is way too superstitious.

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  14. Joe Z

    The whole defense vs. offense thing feels like a zero sum game. Can’t have both. But if I had to choose, I’d prefer Disco Dan’s style. Better to be bad and entertaining than bad and boring.

    The sooner we fall out of the playoff race the better. Like everyone else, I’d rather see Nyman than “Mr chicken” or any of our other mediocre vets. I don’t care if it costs us points in the standings. Ownership has completely misjudged what the fans want to see. We’d rather be terrible and have hope for the future than whatever the current state of affairs is.

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  15. Seattle G

    The kind of intensity it takes to be a good team in the NHL isn’t due to any individual player or where they were drafted. The TEAM has to find it together and make it part of the culture. These guys look like they are being presented with stat sheets by staffers and then trying to go play an NHL hockey game. They are just listlessly going through the motions. There’s no fire. How does Draisaitl make that little move in the offensive zone and get a free pass without even getting touched? He should have been physically separated from the puck

    Meanwhile, Paul Maurice says things to his team like “go cram it down their throats, get pucks to the net and bang them in!” He’s not discussing high danger chance differentials.

    People who think falling out of the playoff race will make this better are delusional. Hitting a reset button doesn’t fix this. It’s how the team responds and builds on this adversity as a team that will make the difference. There’s no stat for “dealing with the crucible of adversity.” This team needs to find their spark.

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    • Nino

      What’s needed is to get RF out of town and bring in someone to fix the team. We might have to miss the playoffs for that….. I know it’s hard but just scraping into the playoffs is a best case scenario and we’d still be the same team with the same management if that happens. Personally I feel changes are not only needed but required.

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      • Seattle G

        I don’t know how you say that when

        1. They got this arena done.
        2. They got the Ice Plex done.
        3. They have managed to make decent trades and sign decent players, and I think have done well with draft picks. I won’t make a list.
        4. Managed to build a whole organization of scouts, etc.
        5. Built a facility in Coachella Valley and established an AHL team that has done pretty well.
        6. We went to game 7 of the 2nd round in our 2nd season. I’m a former Leafs fan by birth, and you just have to trust me when I tell you that’s impressive.

        I just don’t get it when people say that. No, you can’t have Vegas. That was a one-off. Plus, Vegas breaks all of the “rules” some people in here regularly claim are critical for building a winning team.

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        • Nino

          Was referring to RF

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      • Seattle G

        By the way, I’m not saying they have done it all the right way. For example, I know this may not be PC by Seattle sensibilities, but even my wife at the games has said “why can’t WE have cute cheerleaders?” We have people who look like ordinary fans in track suit tops. It’s not energizing. I’ve had friends here from Chicago and Dallas and they are like “what the hell is that?” Oddly, I kind of liked the band, and they got rid of that.

        They are entitled to make some mistakes, as we all are.

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        • RB

          I’ve been to games in several other cities, and there are plenty of apathetic fans and sub-par arena experiences out there, especially for mid-week games. And Seattle wins on food, no question.

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    • Wittmont

      I agree with this. The players, especially many of the vets, looked very checked out and listless. It’s not a good sign the coaches drilled (or maybe even hammered) them on special teams during the long training break – and then the players come out playing even worse, especially on the PK.

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    • Joe Z

      Do we know if Kraken coaching is shoving analytics down their players’ throats?

      In baseball this only seems to work on pitchers. The hitters don’t have enough time to process that information in real time.

      If I had to guess, I bet hockey is more like hitting than pitching. You have to go by instinct and if you get the players thinking too much they are going to become hesitant and won’t make good decisions.

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  16. Rob

    Games have been pretty boring other than what feels like the odd piece of luck.. i feel.like our defense has been ok.. but held up by lucky bounces and being bailed out by our goalies, we have little offense, we have no transition. I love all our players but.. we arent great, some flashes of brilliance here and there but…

    I watched the sharks game the other night.. so much fun some crazy skills, tape to tape passing…

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    • Seattle G

      The Sharks suck. They’re going to suck for a long time, and they’re terrible. Plus they’re been terrible for 5+ years already. But kudos to the 1/3 Shark fans who have remained loyal and keep going to the Shark Tank.

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  17. RB

    I was thinking yesterday that Mahura needed to get back into the lineup…based on morning practice, looks like he may be going in for Oleksiak tonight.

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