Missing the bus – travel tales from a hockey insider (Part II)
Part I of Jon Rosen's "Missing the bus" can be found here. And someone who didn’t have terrible taste? Craig Hartsburg. In the final game before the 2010 holiday break, we left Chilliwack with two points – and also left half the team behind us at a hotel to catch...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 122 – with Seattle Kraken AGM Jason Botterill
BIG-TIME GUEST ALERT! Before you ask, the guys recorded this episode on Monday of this week, so the news of John Forslund's hiring by the Kraken and ROOT Sports being named as its broadcasting partner had not yet come out. So no, they don't talk about that, but will...
Boston Bruins will expose NHL talent to Seattle Kraken in Expansion Draft
The process for our Expansion Draft profiles has been to go from worst to first in terms of where teams finished last season. Thus, the Detroit Red Wings—who were historically bad in 2019-2020—were our first profile, while the Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning...
John Forslund ready for the journey as the new Seattle Kraken TV voice
John Forslund remembers the moment he became a hockey fan. It was 1970 and Bobby Orr scored his famous ‘flying’ goal to win the Stanley Cup in overtime. That was a big moment for Forslund who grew up in Springfield, Mass. as a Boston Bruins fan. While he didn’t know...
How the Laine-Dubois trade will impact Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft
It's not often that teams manage to include three disgruntled players in the same trade. But that's exactly what Winnipeg and Columbus were able to accomplish this past weekend. The Blue Jackets traded wunderkind center Pierre-Luc Dubois and a third-round pick in 2022...
Colorado Avalanche depth is Seattle’s advantage
The Colorado Avalanche are in the middle of a Stanley Cup contending window that only comes around once every 25 years, if you are lucky. After an earlier-than-expected exit in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, general manager Joe Sakic made only a few tweaks to the...
Weekly One-Timers: Pierre-Luc Dubois trade, young NHL players make impact
The Pierre-Luc Dubois saga appears to have finally ended in Columbus, as after a drama-filled week, the burgeoning center was granted his requested trade, along with a third-round pick, to the Winnipeg Jets for Patrik Laine and Jack Roslovic. Dubois surprised many...
The Philadelphia Flyers depth is a plus for Seattle Kraken at Expansion Draft
The Philadelphia Flyers had a breakout season of sorts last year. They finished one point out of first place in the Metropolitan Division when the league stopped but were top four in the Eastern Conference and earned a bye during the qualifying round. While it was a...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 121 – With The Athletic’s Ryan Clark
The blue pants are heinous! It's a very fun and mega-sized episode of the Sound Of Hockey Podcast this week, as the guys welcome Ryan Clark, Seattle Kraken beat writer/national writer for The Athletic. It's a very fun conversation with Ryan, who certainly can tell a...
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...
