Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 193 – Featuring Dave Tomlinson
It’s a fun episode this week with a fun guest. On Episode 193, the Sound Of Hockey Podcast welcomes Dave Tomlinson, radio color commentator for the Seattle Kraken. Dave is fresh off of grinding out 30 games in 14 days at the IIHF World Championship, so John, Andy, and...
Determining how far the Seattle Kraken have to go to become playoff contenders
General manager Ron Francis has made it clear that the goal of the Seattle Kraken is to make the playoffs in 2022-23, which might seem like a stretch goal coming from a team that just finished fourth from last place in the NHL standings. The team will need to be...
COACHella Valley – Dan Bylsma named head coach of AHL Firebirds
Eyebrows were raised around the hockey world when the Seattle Kraken announced in Aug., 2021, that Dan Bylsma was joining the organization and would serve as assistant coach for the Charlotte Checkers. The news immediately got some wheels turning—at least here at...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 192 – Chasing Waterfalls
On this week's Sound Of Hockey Podcast, the guys give a couple quick Seattle Kraken updates, revolving around the signing of Finnish free agent Ville Petman and the re-signing of Jeremy Lauzon with the Nashville Predators. They then shift their focus to junior hockey,...
NHL coaching carousel, Thunderbirds eliminated, Ryan Winterton to Memorial Cup
It feels SO GOOD to be back! It’s been a long time since we’ve put pen to paper for the purpose of giving you one-timers of the weekly variety, but here we are, ready to serve up some bite-sized hockey news for you. As is tradition in Weekly One-Timers, we shall start...
USA Hockey reports highest membership levels ever among female players
Last week, we shared analysis on the 20 percent increase in USA Hockey player memberships over last season. This week, we are looking into the numbers reported on female memberships to evaluate the growth (or decline) of female participation in USA Hockey. Before the...
Understanding the market for future NHL Draft picks
Having built a base trade value chart using only intra-season trades, my next project was to look at trades involving picks from multiple years to determine how teams value future draft picks in trades. In other words, analyze the time value effect on draft pick...
USA Hockey membership up 20 percent
For the 2021-22 season, USA Hockey player membership has increased 20 percent nationwide over the 2020-21 season. According to the recently released numbers from USA Hockey, there were 93,603 player memberships added over the 2021-22 season increasing the total to...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 191 – Championship Blues
For Seattle hockey fans, things haven't gone their way recently. The Seattle Thunderbirds are now down 3-1 in the WHL Championship Series after losing two straight at home this week to the Edmonton Oil Kings, and Kraken goalie Chris Driedger tore his ACL playing in...
Oil Kings hand Thunderbirds heartbreaking Game 4 loss in WHL Championship Series
KENT – The Seattle Thunderbirds were three and a half seconds away from a chance of tying their best-of-seven WHL Championship Series against the Edmonton Oil Kings Wednesday night at the accesso ShoWare Center at two games apiece. The game was tied at 2-2 and one...
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