Looking back at Vegas’ Expansion Draft haul
If you glance at Vegas’ crop of players in the 2017 Expansion Draft, and then back at their current Championship-caliber roster, you may wonder: How did we get here? Vegas built a roster immediately ready to contend largely because of crafty side deals, but...
Weekly One-Timers – NHL Outdoors, Eichel rumors, Climate Pledge Arena update
Latest Seattle Kraken news It was a pretty quiet news week on the Seattle Kraken front, but the team did put out the below video showing that the tunnel into Climate Pledge Arena has been completed. ...
Data Dump Saturday: 500 NHL Points
In his 369th career NHL game, Connor McDavid registered his 500th point to tie Sidney Crosby as the eighth-fastest player to reach that milestone. This week on Data Dump Saturday I plan to visualize McDavid’s scoring pace. I grabbed the game logs from a sample of...
Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft Projections from the Discover Central
This is the Sound Of Hockey's fourth and final installment of our updated projections for the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. Here are links to the prior articles: Scotia North Division, Honda West Division, MassMutual East Division. Carolina Hurricanes Protected List...
Sound Of Hockey Podcast Ep. 125 – Goalie Gear Argument Corner
Things get quite feisty in Goalie Gear Corner this week's Sound Of Hockey Podcast, as John goes on thin ice after making asinine claims about the legitimacy of Darren's selections for the segment. That segment alone is worth the price of admission this week. It's a...
Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft projections for the MassMutual East
We are continuing the updates to our projections for the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft. Up next, the MassMutal East Division teams. If you missed the first two updates, the Scotia North Division can be found here and Honda West Division can be found here. Boston...
Games on the Radar for the Seattle Kraken fan – Volume 2
Despite a number of Covid-related postponements and delays caused by the run-of-the-mill, everyday blizzard in Texas, there are still a ton of NHL games on the radar this week and weekend that will be of interest to Seattle Kraken fans. Most notably are the outdoor...
Expansion Draft Protected Lists and Watchlist updates for the Honda West
We are updating our Expansion Draft protected lists and Seattle Kraken watchlists all week. Monday we went through the Scotia North Division, and today we step through the Honda West Division. Anaheim Ducks Ducks Protected List Watchlist Max Jones was a player who had...
Sound off on music selections for Seattle Kraken games at Climate Pledge Arena
Sound of Hockey’s writers make their selections for the best music to get Climate Pledge Arena rocking at Seattle Kraken games. What songs would you pick?
Protected Lists and Kraken Watchlist for the Scotia North
Loyal Sound Of Hockey readers will know that we have been publishing a synopsis on every NHL team participating in the Seattle Kraken Expansion Draft this summer. We identified open issues facing the clubs, potential protected lists, and who the Kraken might keep an...
