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Four Seattle Kraken prospects to watch at rookie camp
The Seattle Kraken kick off official hockey activities with a two-day rookie camp on Monday and Tuesday, before the full training camp starts Thursday. A lot of the players that will attend the rookie portion are players we saw in the development camp the Kraken...
Ep. 252 – Cocktail Hour (And We’re Launching a Patreon)
Interested in joining our new Patreon to support the Sound Of Hockey? Click here! -- The boys recorded this one on Friday night, which meant cracking open a couple cold ones and chopping it up before Kraken training camp kicks off this week. Lots of giggles are to be...
Prospects to watch in the Seattle Kraken system
With a new crop of prospects from the 2023 NHL Draft, the Seattle Kraken’s farm system is starting to take shape. The third draft class for Seattle was quite the haul, with 10 picks, four of which were selected in the top 60. Especially with some prospects from...
Preliminary analysis: Kraken playoff potential
Last offseason I did a series of articles that analyzed - at a high level - just how much the Kraken would need to improve to be contending for a playoff spot in their second season. At the time, the analysis was met with a bit of cynicism after such an abysmal...
Ranking every NHL-affiliated prospect
You’ve heard of a top-100 prospects list. But who needs those? At Sound Of Hockey we set out on a much more reckless endeavor: Let’s rank every skater prospect (both drafted and signed players) that meet two criteria entering the 2023-24 season: (1) younger than...
Ep. 251 – Robust End-of-Summer Mailbag
We're down to one or two more episodes before Seattle Kraken training camp opens, and the guys thought it was a great time to do one more offseason Mailbag. That makes up the bulk of this episode, as John, Darren, and Curtis dig into your many great questions. Other...
What the Kraken did/didn’t do this offseason, depth chart predictions
This Seattle Kraken offseason has been interestingly… UNinteresting. Fresh off a 100-point regular season, a first-round series win over the defending champion Colorado Avalanche, and a Game 7 loss to the Dallas Stars in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs,...
Ep. 250 – A Lot or Quite a Few?
Finally, some Kraken news has started trickling in again, now that August is in the rearview mirror. Joonas Donskoi announced his retirement, and Seattle signed Devin Shore to add depth and competition in training camp. John and Darren break those stories down and...