Missing the bus – travel tales from a hockey insider (Part I)
While traveling on the LA Kings charter at night after a game, I ran out of battery juice because of a faulty connection at my seat and preferred to continue working on the plane rather than spend an extra hour at the charter terminal on arrival at 2 a.m. We spent...
How the Vancouver Canucks shape up for the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft
Look ahead to the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft to see which Vancouver Canucks player will head south to join the Seattle Kraken for their inaugural season.
NHL Opening Week gave us a little bit of everything
NHL hockey is back and served up an entertaining opening week. There were impressive rookie debuts, players facing old teams, and some hot starts. The new division formats have provided early dramatics – see Montreal versus Toronto in the Scotia North – as...
St Louis Blues give Seattle Kraken options in the Expansion Draft
The St. Louis Blues will have several key decisions to make on their approach to the Expansion Draft this summer. The Blues are just two seasons removed from their Stanley Cup win, but their roster has slowly been turning over from that championship team. The Blues...
Interesting week for Seattle Kraken, NHL’s roaring start
Eventful Kraken week With the hockey world focused on the start of the NHL season, the Seattle Kraken snuck over the finish line of their season ticket sales process. Being that the team had 35,000 season ticket deposits for an arena that holds 17,000, it was just a...
Seattle Kraken storylines for the NHL Season (Part 2)
A few days ago, we stepped through all the "Eastern Conference" teams (yes, we recognize there are no conferences this season) and identified some of the major storylines that could impact the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft in July. Today, we look to the teams that...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 120 – LET’S PLAY HOCKEY!
NHL Hockey is back, and the Sound Of Hockey Podcast is very much ready for it! Sound Of Hockey is here to bring you fully up to speed in preparation for the wild ride that will be the shortened 56-game NHL season, which is now officially underway. In this episode,...
Seattle Kraken sell out season tickets, still working to get depositors into games
SEATTLE -- Before playing a game the Seattle Kraken are already the hottest ticket in town as the team appears to have sold out its season ticket plans. The team says that they will still work with the remaining depositors on their list to get them into Climate Pledge...
Ovi? Oshie? Making sense of Washington Capitals’ Expansion Draft prospects for Seattle
The Seattle Kraken almost surely will have a chance at a veteran ready to contribute right away from the Washington Capitals in the Expansion Draft. The Capitals already possessed a roster in win-now mode with several veteran contributors. And then, for good measure,...
Which rookie will win the NHL’s 2020-2021 Calder Trophy?
The NHL is blessed with highly skilled and entertaining young stars. Every season a new crop dazzles and this year will offer more of the same starting Wednesday night. At the end of each season, the league recognizes which one of the new kids is the best by awarding...
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